User: jpmcc Date: 2010-01-14 00:00:28+0000 Modified: marketing/www/planet/atom.xml marketing/www/planet/index.html marketing/www/planet/opml.xml marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Planet run at Thu Jan 14 01:00:12 CET 2010 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.2818&r2=1.2819 Delta lines: +40 -50 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2010-01-13 18:00:24+0000 1.2818 +++ atom.xml 2010-01-14 00:00:23+0000 1.2819 @@ -5,10 +5,41 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2010-01-13T18:00:22+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-14T00:00:21+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Video: how to use OpenOffice.org Writer Templates</title> + <link href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/l0bgmPG_IT0/"/> + <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=523</id> + <updated>2010-01-13T18:20:06+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p></p><p>A useful <a href="http://www.plrvideodirect.com/free-video-tutorials/video-using-openoffice-writer-templates/" target="_blank" title="How to use Writer Templates">video tutorial</a> on how to integrate templates into your documents for use with OpenOffice.org writer.</p> +<p><!-- +google_ad_client = "pub-7842513683997181"; +/* 468x60, created 6/28/09 */ +google_ad_slot = "7035492401"; +google_ad_width = 468; +google_ad_height = 60; +//--> +</p> +<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VckG0TckrcNiTHKkG7s4658lejw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VckG0TckrcNiTHKkG7s4658lejw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> +<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VckG0TckrcNiTHKkG7s4658lejw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VckG0TckrcNiTHKkG7s4658lejw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> +<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=l0bgmPG_IT0:aofOYbABwsA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=l0bgmPG_IT0:aofOYbABwsA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=l0bgmPG_IT0:aofOYbABwsA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=l0bgmPG_IT0:aofOYbABwsA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> +</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/l0bgmPG_IT0" height="1" width="1" /></content> + <author> + <name>Italo Vignoli</name> + <uri>http://www.italovignoli.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Going Open</title> + <subtitle type="html">marketing of open source software</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/> + <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id> + <updated>2010-01-14T00:00:17+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">OpenOffice.org in internet cafes threat to Microsoft</title> <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/12/openoffice-org-in-internet-cafes-threat-to-microsoft/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=833</id> @@ -24,7 +55,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2010-01-13T18:00:14+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-14T00:00:13+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -49,7 +80,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2010-01-13T18:00:14+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-14T00:00:13+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -72,7 +103,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2010-01-13T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-14T00:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -93,7 +124,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - 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<updated>2010-01-13T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-14T00:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -314,48 +345,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2010-01-13T18:00:16+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">We won!</title> - <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/12/15/we-won/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=812</id> - <updated>2009-12-15T08:55:14+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-796" title="Best Online News Release" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/prwebaward_top10.gif" alt="Best Online News Release" width="236" height="151" />Following <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/11/26/doing-something-right/">our shortlisting for the Best Online News release Award of 2009</a>, it was great to see <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb-awards/2009-winner/prweb3342904.htm">the news today</a> that &#8220;PRWeb, the online news distribution service of Vocus (NASDAQ: VOCS), today announced that an OpenOffice.org news release was named the winner of The Best of PRWeb contest.&#8221;</p> -<p>We&#8217;ve long known that &#8220;many eyes make great software&#8221; &#8211; we&#8217;ve now shown that community efforts can also hone effective press releases. Thanks to all the team at <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a> for their work.</p></content> - <author> - <name>John McCreesh</name> - <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title> - <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2010-01-13T18:00:14+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Locked out by design</title> - <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/12/14/locked-out-by-design/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=807</id> - <updated>2009-12-14T12:44:32+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-809" title="ODF text icon" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/odf_textdocument.png" alt="ODF text icon" width="128" height="128" />I once asked a corporate IT person what his company&#8217;s investment was in office software. He gave me the cost of their Microsoft Office licences &#8211; which was the wrong answer. Anyone can go out any buy the same licences &#8211; they aren&#8217;t an <em>investment</em> &#8211; they don&#8217;t create any competitive advantage; they&#8217;re just a cost of doing business (and a completely avoidable cost as <a href="http://why.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a> is a free alternative). The company&#8217;s real investment &#8211; their intellectual property &#8211; is in the millions of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, etc. they have created.</p> -<p>Software vendors have tried on and off to lock these documents so users needed the original software to use them. This can go horribly wrong, as some users of Microsoft Office 2003 have just found out to their cost, when the software <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2009/12/11/cannot-open-office-2003-documents-protected-with-rms.aspx">refused to let them get at their documents</a> &#8211; their own intellectual property. This is a design feature of Microsoft Office software which happened to misfire.</p> -<p>What it highlights is that no-one outside Microsoft has a clue what is hidden inside their secretive software. It also highlights the importance of not using a secret format to store valuable office documents. The safe way to store valuable documents is in <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/">OpenDocument Format</a> (ODF) &#8211; an ISO approved open standard which isn&#8217;t owned by any one company. It&#8217;s the best guarantee against being held to ransom one day by a software supplier.</p></content> - <author> - <name>John McCreesh</name> - <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title> - <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2010-01-13T18:00:14+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-14T00:00:14+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.2825&r2=1.2826 Delta lines: +28 -33 --------------------- --- index.html 2010-01-13 18:00:25+0000 1.2825 +++ index.html 2010-01-14 00:00:24+0000 1.2826 @@ -37,8 +37,35 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 13, 2010 06:00 PM CET</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 14, 2010 12:00 AM CET</em></p> +<h2>January 13, 2010</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.italovignoli.org"; title="Going Open"> +Italo Vignoli</a> : +<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/l0bgmPG_IT0/";> +Video: how to use OpenOffice.org Writer Templates</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p></p><p>A useful <a href="http://www.plrvideodirect.com/free-video-tutorials/video-using-openoffice-writer-templates/"; target="_blank" title="How to use Writer Templates">video tutorial</a> on how to integrate templates into your documents for use with OpenOffice.org writer.</p> +<p><!-- +google_ad_client = "pub-7842513683997181"; +/* 468x60, created 6/28/09 */ +google_ad_slot = "7035492401"; +google_ad_width = 468; +google_ad_height = 60; +//--> +</p> +<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VckG0TckrcNiTHKkG7s4658lejw/0/da";><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VckG0TckrcNiTHKkG7s4658lejw/0/di"; border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> +<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VckG0TckrcNiTHKkG7s4658lejw/1/da";><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VckG0TckrcNiTHKkG7s4658lejw/1/di"; border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> +<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=l0bgmPG_IT0:aofOYbABwsA:yIl2AUoC8zA";><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA"; border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=l0bgmPG_IT0:aofOYbABwsA:7Q72WNTAKBA";><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA"; border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=l0bgmPG_IT0:aofOYbABwsA:V_sGLiPBpWU";><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=l0bgmPG_IT0:aofOYbABwsA:V_sGLiPBpWU"; border="0" /></a> +</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/l0bgmPG_IT0"; height="1" width="1" /></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/l0bgmPG_IT0/";>by italovignoli at January 13, 2010 06:20 PM CET</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>January 12, 2010</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -308,38 +335,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> -John McCreesh</a> : -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/12/15/we-won/";> -We won!</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-796" title="Best Online News Release" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/prwebaward_top10.gif"; alt="Best Online News Release" width="236" height="151" />Following <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/11/26/doing-something-right/";>our shortlisting for the Best Online News release Award of 2009</a>, it was great to see <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb-awards/2009-winner/prweb3342904.htm";>the news today</a> that “PRWeb, the online news distribution service of Vocus (NASDAQ: VOCS), today announced that an OpenOffice.org news release was named the winner of The Best of PRWeb contest.”</p> -<p>We’ve long known that “many eyes make great software” – we’ve now shown that community efforts can also hone effective press releases. Thanks to all the team at <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice.org</a> for their work.</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/12/15/we-won/";>by John at December 15, 2009 08:55 AM CET</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>December 14, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> -John McCreesh</a> : -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/12/14/locked-out-by-design/";> -Locked out by design</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-809" title="ODF text icon" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/odf_textdocument.png"; alt="ODF text icon" width="128" height="128" />I once asked a corporate IT person what his company’s investment was in office software. He gave me the cost of their Microsoft Office licences – which was the wrong answer. Anyone can go out any buy the same licences – they aren’t an <em>investment</em> – they don’t create any competitive advantage; they’re just a cost of doing business (and a completely avoidable cost as <a href="http://why.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice.org</a> is a free alternative). The company’s real investment – their intellectual property – is in the millions of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, etc. they have created.</p> -<p>Software vendors have tried on and off to lock these documents so users needed the original software to use them. This can go horribly wrong, as some users of Microsoft Office 2003 have just found out to their cost, when the software <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2009/12/11/cannot-open-office-2003-documents-protected-with-rms.aspx";>refused to let them get at their documents</a> – their own intellectual property. This is a design feature of Microsoft Office software which happened to misfire.</p> -<p>What it highlights is that no-one outside Microsoft has a clue what is hidden inside their secretive software. It also highlights the importance of not using a secret format to store valuable office documents. The safe way to store valuable documents is in <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/";>OpenDocument Format</a> (ODF) – an ISO approved open standard which isn’t owned by any one company. It’s the best guarantee against being held to ransom one day by a software supplier.</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/12/14/locked-out-by-design/";>by John at December 14, 2009 12:44 PM CET</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.2818&r2=1.2819 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2010-01-13 18:00:25+0000 1.2818 +++ opml.xml 2010-01-14 00:00:25+0000 1.2819 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:00:23 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:21 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.907&r2=1.908 Delta lines: +19 -17 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2010-01-12 12:00:29+0000 1.907 +++ rss10.xml 2010-01-14 00:00:25+0000 1.908 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=523"; 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&#8211; we&#8217;ve now shown that community efforts can also hone effective press releases. 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