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

[Sara Dornsife]

Sorry, I clicked and responded to the wrong mail, obviously. I was 
thanking Clayton at the ad agency for the ad resizing they did for a 
show guide.
Sara

Sara Dornsife wrote:

> Thanks Clayton
>
> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>
>> 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
>> -- 
>> Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
>> http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
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