Hi Nate,
Thanks for the great suggestions on the CMS comparison. I have already incorporated Mark Corum's excellent edits to the slides I sent out. Perhaps I should modify the chart to show relative cost to get to a specific result rather than how a specific amount of money is used? Re: one slide deck or many decks - given the global nature of these events I think that giving the WPD 2008 local organizers more choices for slide content is a good thing. There is not much time left. We need to get this information to the organizers this week so they can put their presentations together. But, without a consistent look and feel, Plone becomes invisible -- just another piece in the technology stack. In order for people to decide to use Plone over another CMS, they must know it exists. This was the genius of the "Intel Inside" campaign. It made consumers aware that they had a choice in hardware (something originally reserved for the engineers at the computer manufacturer). How can we get to a decision so that all of us can put that most precious resource, time, to best use? Best Regards, Constance From: Nate Aune [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Constance Kobylarz; Alexander Limi; Matt Hamilton; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dylan Jay; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Chris Johnson; Mark A Corum; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Roberto Allende; Luciano Ramalho; Horak, Karl; Jordan Baker; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Plone marketing- WPD2008 Slide Deck On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Gerry Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Indeed, thanks for taking the lead on this Constance. My favourite slide is the $50k one too. :) Yes, this is visually a very powerful way to show the differences between commercially licensed CMSes and customizable open source CMSes. I think it's important however to clarify what we mean by customization, as Matt Hamilton mentioned at the "So you want to be a Plone consultant" panel discussion that when customers see how much money goes towards customization, they assume that the CMS must not have very much out-of-the-box functionality, and therefore needs a lot of customization. We should preface this slide by showing just how much you get with Plone out-of-the-box, and how with most commercial CMSes, you have to pay for all of those extra features as expensive add-ons. We could also mention that 99% of all Plone add-ons are also freely downloadable, so even if Plone doesn't have a particular feature built-in, there is probably a 3rd party add-on which satisfies one's requirement. In the case of Plone, the customizations are usually going to come in the form of: - custom theme - custom workflows - custom content types One key principle with presentations is to use maximum visual and minimal text. Seth Godin advocates no more than 6 words on a slide, for example. Presentations are more about emotions than data. For example, the Who Uses Plone slide could become instead a series of slides that are visuals of the sites themselves. Seeing the sites is the ultimate proof, and also shows the variety of ways the Plone look can be customized. Another option is to have one message per slide, something centred on the page for the How Can Plone Help You? bullet points. For the 7 reasons, is there a visual way to depict most of those? I just uploaded a couple slide decks that I've used in past presentations which I've repurposed for anyone who wants to use them for World Plone Day. I've tried to keep the number of slides to a minimum, make use of images to convey meaning and keep the amount of text on the slide to a minimum. http://www.slideshare.net/Jazkarta/world-plone-day-slide-deck-presentati on http://www.slideshare.net/Jazkarta/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-abo ut-plone-presentation As suggested by Limi on the last Plone Foundation board call, I'd like to add some branding and put the new Plone logo on the slides with text - also the World Plone Day logo on the first slide. I can make these slide decks available as Keynote and Powerpoint files as well, so that they can be modified. Please note that they are licensed under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-alike license, so if you do enhance them, please share your contributions back to the community. Before I do so, I'd like Mark Corum (cc'ed) to look over these slides and make sure that everything checks out okay. In particular, I'm concerned about using the company logos and screenshots. I can replace the slide of company logos with just the names of the companies, if that makes things easier. I'd also like Mark to give his input on whether we should standardize on a single slide deck and make that the "official" World Plone Day or if it makes sense to have several slide decks available depending on the type of audience you are presenting to and the amount of time you have to make your pitch. ex: 10 min, 30 min, 1 hr. Constance - what are your thoughts on this? I think your slides are excellent and I'm happy to just go with yours if people feel strongly that we should have a single slide deck to keep the message uniform and consistent. Last point, are we all on the marketing mailing list so we can discuss issues without having to grab everyone's email? Where is the info for signing up? I've cc'ed the [email protected] list so from now on this conversation can take place there instead of cc'ing everyone. If you haven't already, please sign up for the evangelism list at: http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism You can also read the messages at http://groups.google.com/group/plone-evangelism if you prefer reading the messages on Google Groups. thanks, Nate 2008/10/16 Constance Kobylarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello Plone Marketing Team, I've completed a basic slide deck for World Plone Day 2008. The link on Slideshare is: http://www.slideshare.net/secret/eMfythjwxMfLrR I have saved it in private mode until you have had a chance to look at it and offer suggestions. My goal was to create an overview that could be presented to a variety of potential users--and keep the number of slides to a minimum - lots of content in the notes. Please have a look there, too. Once we have a final version, I will change it to public status. I welcome your suggestions! 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