For this particular conference, the focus is on getting people to
use OOo for their own purposes, in their own organisations. The
organiser of the workshops (a personal friend) advertised them as
showing how to use Word for writing, editing, publishing. I told
him that his audience needed to be made aware of alternatives
that were cheaper and could often do the job better. I think the
mention of "create PDFs with the need for a separate program" is
what really got his attention. :-)
Cheers, Jean
John McCreesh wrote:
Thanks for the tip - that's an excellent example of how people can use
their professional peer networks as a marketing opportunity. Is your focus
on getting them to use OOo in their own organisations, or on getting them
to publish articles, books, etc on OOo (and/or including CDs)?
John
On Tue, April 4, 2006 09:15, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
A slightly different approach to reaching potential end-users...
I will be demonstrating OOo at a series of publishing workshops
at the Australian national science fiction convention at Easter
in Brisbane. Attendees include writers, editors and publishers
(both professional and wannabees). I'll have handouts about OOo,
some CDs to pass out to interested people, and display copies of
many of the available books.
This convention is attended by reps of many small press
publishers in Australia and some of the big name publishers as
well. I know a lot of these people personally, so I hope we'll
get a lot of publicity and interest from this. Many attendees
have contacts in our target markets of non-profit organisations,
governments, and so on, so there is potential beyond the
relatively small scale of this particular conference.
--Jean
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