[osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] top-right jumble and other concerns

[Jim Grisanzio]

Dan Price wrote:
> On Tue 20 Dec 2005 at 11:25AM, Bonnie Corwin wrote:
> 
>>Hi Dan -
>>
>>Are you suggesting a newsletter to replace the monthly newsletter being
>>sent out now?  Or changes/additions to the current monthly newsletter?
> 
> 
> I think the pteam can decide that; is the pteam newsletter satisfying
> the need expressed by marketing here?  Is it designed to?  After some
> searching I see that it is being posted to the pteam alias, but (I may
> be mistaken) no place else.  Who of the influencers marketing mentioned
> reads the pteam alias?  As a metric, November's newsletter had 41 views
> on the website as of this evening.  The newsletter also comes out badly
> mangled by the jive forums:
> 
>     http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=4150&tstart=0
> 
> I'll add to what Laura said that we need to write something exciting--
> not provide status lists.  Think Zagat, lkml.org, slashdot,
> boingboing.net, flavorpill.net.  Don't just tell what happened (or
> will)-- tell people why it matters.  On months with high activity, I'd
> expect a good newsletter to wind up on osnews.com and other sites.

I think some of us would love to see the p-team newsletter grow in scope 
and depth to reflect the entire program (engineering, community, 
marketing, whatever). In other words, a top level report packed with 
data that touches every aspect of the OpenSolaris program just deeply 
enough to engage people but not overload or distract them. We'd all 
contribute to that newsletter and pool/share our data so we can leverage 
each other's efforts, and then we can (if we need to) produce derivative 
reports from it for our specific audiences. We have to decide what we 
want to track and contribute to this pool though, so we can all benefit. 
What we have now is several disparate reports (some internal, some 
external) that are not necessarily planned in context with each other 
and it's confusing. I think Linda is doing a good job getting the p-team 
newsletter off the ground, but we all have to feed her the right bits to 
put it together.

Jim
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Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/