11 Signs Revisited

Kasia liked my 11 Signs You Need a De-Geeking Intervention and Gave 11 more.  #s 14 and 15 are my favorites [ Go ]

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Cool... Drupal Has Screen Shots Online Now !

Very, very interesting.  In the theme of improving their marketing, the Drupal project added screen shots for their Admin tools.  Just plain Sweet !  Looking at the user permissions in particular lets you get a much better feel for what Drupal's all about (Drupal has a very finely grained permissions system that lets you differentiate between an Administrator, Anonymous User, Authenticated User and a Site maintainer, each user type with their own permissions).  [ Go ]  

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Marketing 101: Marketing an Open Source Product : The Product Literature

It's a poorly understood aspect of the Open Source (OS) world that marketing actually matters.  I know that we all really want our code to be appreciated for its elegant perfection but such is not always the case.  Marketing greatly helps an OS product to push beyond its initial user niche into a larger and more diverse group of customers.  In this article I'm going to talk about marketing for an OS product and specifically the Product Literature that you need.

Note: This article was inspired by Dries and the Drupal project, one of my favorite OS projects.  I made the mistake of commenting on their marketing recently and have now been pulled into a) documenting the process of product literature and b) helping to write the feature list.  [AD]Drupal is an OS community platform with an absolute weath of features -- blogging, discussion forums, themes, taxonomy engine, analysis / statistics tools, caching and more.[/AD]

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Sigh.  Ever have one of those days where you do two things that are diametrically opposed to each other?  On Friday we released Inbox Buddy with much improved anti-spam features while for a consulting client I wrote a batch emailing system for b2b communications.  I'm still fairly burnt from that work, a cold and my recent move.
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