Oh, and one last thing. You don't have to "target" anyone persay.
You don't even have to change a single line of code, or the direction. This is about engaging people with passion. They tend to be the folks that have built a big readership and have a great deal of influence. Sometimes they are hugely well known - that shouldn't frighten, it should excite. :) Best, Brendan. On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:30 PM, shep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I always saw habari as a grass roots kind of thing. start with > passionate users and spread the word that way and not targeting > celebrity endorsements. *shrugs* > > On Aug 30, 4:58 pm, Owen Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> shep wrote: >> > actually, it does have something to do with it, because as the >> > previous posts were discussing, habari doesn't have the wow factor to >> > grab the average blogger. which is where you started talking about >> > the elite bloggers and how we need to target them, which i disagree >> > with. we need the wow factor for the average blogger, and until we >> > add things for the average blogger to target them (better theme >> > support, updated importers, modules/widgets/whatever, more themes and >> > plugins) we won't get them. >> >> We're certainly not changing Habari to target one group or another with >> features; However, we are targeting our marketing effort most >> effectively by spending the least effort to reach the most users. >> >> We would unquestionably spend our marketing efforts better by >> approaching bloggers having larger audiences than approaching an >> equivalent audience-worth of average bloggers. >> >> Those A-list bloggers, by virtue of talking about or using Habari, would >> then extend our reach to a larger number of average bloggers than we >> could ever reach on our own. I believe that is the logic in approaching >> the "elite" blogger. >> >> If there is a different way to reach an equivalent number of average joe >> bloggers directly, I'd like to know what that is. >> >> If anyone means to suggest that we change Habari features to cater to an >> elite blogging crowd, please say so now, since I would take issue with >> the idea that A-list bloggers would want or need anything different from >> blog software than what we should provide to the average blogger. I am >> pretty sure that no one is suggesting this though. >> >> Owen > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
