Re: [Evangelism] World Plone Day 2008
I, too, am not one who writes press releases and in fact don't have a clear idea of what the next step is. Hopefully Nate or Mark or someone else knowledgeable will come to our rescue. :-) I'm not the most knowledgeable about writing press releases either, but I'm cc'ing Mark, Virginia and Constance on this email in hopes that they can look it over and provide some suggestions. http://www.diigo.com/annotated/9fdb698e2696b74ab86f2c4468a316a7 I agree we should get this out soon as it's been almost a month since the event. I sent out another request to the WPD organizers asking them to update the spreadsheet with the numbers, so hopefully we'll get an accurate count of the worldwide attendance and can include that in the news announcement / press release. thanks, Nate Graham Perrin wrote: Hi ... suggestions in sticky notes at http://www.diigo.com/annotated/9fdb698e2696b74ab86f2c4468a316a7. Where I have highlighted the numbers, some of the numbers below 100 might expressed as words, so for example Forty of the sixty-one but for sure, the grammatical rules may vary from country to country etc. so that's a very minor point. I don't do press releases but to me it does read nicely :) Kind regards Graham -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/World-Plone-Day-2008-tp1487270p1507850.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism -- Nate Aune - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nateaune.com (personal blog) http://jazkarta.com (open source technology solutions) http://twitter.com/natea (daily updates) PondCMS: Fully managed Plone-based CMS solution http://jazkarta.com/products/pondcms ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
Re: [Evangelism] World Plone Day 2008
Roberto Allende ha scritto: Hello ** Thanks to all the people who supported World Plone Day *** Hello, we've just updated the After Action report spreadsheet for the World Plone Day in Pisa (busy busy days!) and i wanted to add that we had a great time during the WPD and a very good feedback from most of our guests. Also, many things that we set up for the event would be much harder without the community marketing effort, so thanks to everyone that provided hints, materials, organization fun. Here's some channels and materials for the World Plone Day Pisa: Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/worldploneday2008pisa/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=31796941551ref=mf Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/worldploneday2008pisa Everything is tagged with worldploneday2008 and worldploneday2008pisa. Cheers Eleonora It was a great success, i'm deeply proud of being member of such awesome community. Spread WPD! Please, publish photos about your local WPD, we're using worldploneday2008 tag in Flickr and there are more than 250 photos: http://flickr.com/photos/tags/worldploneday2008 Evaluation Right now we're starting to contact all the host to get feedback, if you wrote and published them already better!. Otherwise, you'll get a mail in few days. Short comment If we see google trends: http://www.google.com/trends?q=plone%2C+zope can we say ploneconf + book releases + wpd are a good combination ? :D (check the graph in the right) Kind Regards r. -- Eleonora Borelli Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reflab S.r.l. - Plone Design, Development and Consulting Phone: +39 3471841847 http://www.reflab.com ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
Re: [Evangelism] World Plone Day 2008
Karl Horak wrote: How's this for a start? Feel free to edit heavily and/or translate. Hi ... suggestions in sticky notes at http://www.diigo.com/annotated/9fdb698e2696b74ab86f2c4468a316a7. Where I have highlighted the numbers, some of the numbers below 100 might expressed as words, so for example Forty of the sixty-one but for sure, the grammatical rules may vary from country to country etc. so that's a very minor point. I don't do press releases but to me it does read nicely :) Kind regards Graham -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/World-Plone-Day-2008-tp1487270p1507566.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
Re: [Evangelism] World Plone Day 2008
Graham, Very cool online sticky notes at diigo. Thanks for introducing it to me. I was spelling out numbers ten and under except at the beginning of a sentence, but I agree, its probably a country-specific matter. You are correct about Vietnam. Interestingly, our colleague from there spelled the city as Ha Noi, but that appears to be westernized to Hanoi in North America and Europe. Don't know about France, though, because Hà Nội is the transliteration I see in Wikipedia. The placement of the URLs ahead of the link is an interesting artifact of embedded links here. Compare with the version in http://plonemetrics.blogspot.com/2008/11/world-plone-day-after-action-report.html my blog to see what I thought would appear. You are correct, though, in that they should be true hyperlinks or else parenthetical after the term in question. Along those lines (and I've seen it suggested elsewhere in the Plone marketing notes), we should have an elevator speech for each sector-specific category--business, education, science, government, NGOs, etc. In most cases I just linked to the appropriate support forum. Plonegov.org is a great example of what we should aspire to for each of these sectors. Your other edits are all well considered and I would recommend anyone using this release to make those changes. Some of the improvements you suggest are to text copied directly from plone.org. I suggest that the marketing community look into reflecting those enhancements back into the core material. I, too, am not one who writes press releases and in fact don't have a clear idea of what the next step is. Hopefully Nate or Mark or someone else knowledgeable will come to our rescue. :-) Cheers, Karl Graham Perrin wrote: Hi ... suggestions in sticky notes at http://www.diigo.com/annotated/9fdb698e2696b74ab86f2c4468a316a7. Where I have highlighted the numbers, some of the numbers below 100 might expressed as words, so for example Forty of the sixty-one but for sure, the grammatical rules may vary from country to country etc. so that's a very minor point. I don't do press releases but to me it does read nicely :) Kind regards Graham -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/World-Plone-Day-2008-tp1487270p1507850.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
Re: [Evangelism] World Plone Day 2008
How's this for a start? Feel free to edit heavily and/or translate. Those with good contacts in the media, kindly distribute this or other information before WPD becomes last week's news. Thanks. _ News flash! With 66% of the event sites reporting in, the first http://plone.org/events/wpd World Plone Day can claim success. Friday 7 November was http://plone.org/events/wpd World Plone Day , a coordinated worldwide series of meetups, seminars, and workshops. Events were scheduled from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Hanoi, Viet Nam with a healthy representation in North America and Europe. Truly an international day of Plone, 30 countries on five continents were involved. http://plone.org/about/plone/ Plone is a ready-to-run, open source content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server. Plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets. Forty of the 61 registered venues have reported in, showing a total of 982 participants who listened to 107 presenters. Extrapolating to those sites that have yet to record their guest count, perhaps 1500 participants world wide were engaged in learning about Plone. Over 40 companies sponsored events throughout the globe, which were sanctioned by the not-for-profit http://plone.org/foundation Plone Foundation , the legal owner of the Plone codebase, trademarks, and domain names. Activities ranged from small, informal gatherings with ad hoc presentations to large, formal sessions with a half dozen presentations, refreshments, and door prizes. Brasilia, Brazil had the largest event with 128 attendees. Events were tied together in more than enthusiasm for Plone--live blogging, Twitter, and streaming video were all used to interconnect participants. World Plone Day is anticipated to become an annual event to advocate the benefits of using Plone in http://plone.org/support/for/edu/ education , http://www.plonegov.org/ government , http://plone.org/support/for/nonprofits/ non-profit/non-governmental organizations , and http://plone.org/support/for/enterprise/ business . For more information, contact http://plone.org/support/forums the Plone support lists . Gerry Kirk-3 wrote: Definitely should be done, no later than this Friday. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/World-Plone-Day-2008-tp1487270p1504290.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
Re: [Evangelism] World Plone Day 2008
Definitely should be done, no later than this Friday. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Xavier Heymans [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, Any plan for a press release to make post event promotion? Could be interesting if we have estimate about the number of events, attendies, talks, ... Xavier On 11 Nov 2008, at 23:35, Roberto Allende wrote: Hello ** Thanks to all the people who supported World Plone Day *** It was a great success, i'm deeply proud of being member of such awesome community. Spread WPD! Please, publish photos about your local WPD, we're using worldploneday2008 tag in Flickr and there are more than 250 photos: http://flickr.com/photos/tags/worldploneday2008 Evaluation Right now we're starting to contact all the host to get feedback, if you wrote and published them already better!. Otherwise, you'll get a mail in few days. Short comment If we see google trends: http://www.google.com/trends?q=plone%2C+zope can we say ploneconf + book releases + wpd are a good combination ? :D (check the graph in the right) Kind Regards r. -- http://robertoallende.com ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism -- blog: http://gerrykirk.net daily musings at http://twitter.com/gerrykirk ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
Re: [Evangelism] World Plone Day 2008
From the results piling in at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=py-ZRibpWMZXMgI9P-XXweghl=en, it looks like 835 attendees were reported at 33 venues. Extrapolating to the 60 pre-registered venues, we may have had over 1500 attendees world-wide. Brasilia, Brazil is still top of the chart with 128 attendees. -- Karl -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/World-Plone-Day-2008-tp1487270p1492766.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
[Evangelism] World Plone Day 2008
Hello ** Thanks to all the people who supported World Plone Day *** It was a great success, i'm deeply proud of being member of such awesome community. Spread WPD! Please, publish photos about your local WPD, we're using worldploneday2008 tag in Flickr and there are more than 250 photos: http://flickr.com/photos/tags/worldploneday2008 Evaluation Right now we're starting to contact all the host to get feedback, if you wrote and published them already better!. Otherwise, you'll get a mail in few days. Short comment If we see google trends: http://www.google.com/trends?q=plone%2C+zope can we say ploneconf + book releases + wpd are a good combination ? :D (check the graph in the right) Kind Regards r. -- http://robertoallende.com ___ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism