In Albuquerque, we've never had more than a Plone Users luncheon or happy hour. We took a baby step last year by using WPD to hold a Python/Zope/Plone open house. Our corporate daily newsletter gave us a paragraph to explain that we were discussing content management and web solutions to a variety of problems. Our attendees were most of the local Python community and many from the corporate web group. Only when someone arrived did they then learn that the event was a WPD one.
This year we're going to expand our outreach into the broader community, involve other Plone shops, and see how it goes. I like the idea that Plone is "quick web communication." I also think we'll emphasize the intersection of web content management, social software & collaboration, and enterprise portal capabilities. If you explicitly promote WPD, I think you must be prepared to immediately follow that up by answering the question, "What the heck is a Plone and why should I care?" We dodged that by calling the event one thing and using WPD as the motivation, rationale, and the international "glue." -- Karl Chris Calloway wrote: > > On 3/11/2009 1:35 PM, Scott Paley wrote: >> Thinking more about this though, who does WPD target? Are we trying to >> target those who don't have any idea what a CMS is? > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/promoting-WPD-tp2461384p2466579.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Evangelism mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
