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

[Dan Price]

On Mon 02 Jan 2006 at 08:59PM, Laura Ramsey wrote:
> 
> Check out the highlights posted in the marketing community. This is 
> evolving into a solid newsletter--november version had some kinks but 
> december version seems to have more traction. It purposely focuses on 
> community building aspects--and has that tone purposely.
> 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/highlights/december/
> 
> Thoughts?

Well, there's surely an audience for whom this newsletter is
interesting; as a technologist, I can say that I'm not a member of
that set of people... the newsletter is quite dense and is really
a summary of marketing activities.

As a suggestion for the future, add more links:

  "OpenSolaris marketing participated in the Gartner Open Source Summit in
   Orlando, Florida"

could be:
  "---OpenSolaris marketing--- participated in the ---Gartner
  Open Source Summit--- in Orlando, Florida."

(And of course put links to the appropriate photo streams on flickr...)

Same for people, too-- link to them if they have blogs or pages; the
best web newsletters let you swim around in the specific context of the
content which they discuss.

So I guess that I agree with Jim-- there needs to be a culling and
"value add" process which stitches together multiple sources of
information: marketing, development, press, etc.

(Maybe I should take a cut at what I have in mind.  I don't know
if I have the time).

        -dp

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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp at eng.sun.com - blogs.sun.com/dp