[OpenID board] Webware 100 Press Release

Johannes Ernst jernst at netmesh.us
Thu May 31 20:17:25 UTC 2007


Who would get to blog there?

Did you mean of the foundation, with the foundation appointing its  
"news editor"?


On May 31, 2007, at 2:44, Justen Stepka wrote:

> How about having an official openid blog?
>
> This would avoid having to issue a press releases and allow for  
> initiative related messages to be communicated from the source.  
> Those who monitor such things would then have a place to look.
>
> I know there is the mailing list for things like, but only certain  
> types of people are willing to scroll through the archives.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Justen
>
> -- 
> Justen Stepka
> http://www.jstepka.name/blog/
>
> On 5/31/07, Dick Hardt < dick at sxip.com> wrote:
> In todays age of blogging I don't see any value in a press release,  
> and in fact I think it would send the wrong message to the OpenID  
> community for people to see we had used funds and expended effort  
> issuing a release on something that is not all that significant.
>
> Sxipper is in the Webware 100 and I would not dream of issuing a  
> release for that, nor if we won.
>
> I do think a blogging campaign is a good idea to rally votes!
>
> David: you were going to get the marketing comittee organized so  
> that activities like this could happen with the marketing group  
> instead of being at the board level. How is that going?
>
> -- Dick
>
> On 30-May-07, at 7:48 AM, Bill Washburn wrote:
>
>> Just out of curiosity, how far-fetched is it to dream of a  
>> blogging campaign that actually might lead to enough votes to  
>> winning the award?.... as a dark horse?  Just a thought, because  
>> obviously if that were the way it happened a lot of attention  
>> could be garnered.
>>
>> -bill
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Scott Kveton < scott at kveton.com>
>> To: board at openid.net
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:51:25 PM
>> Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Webware 100 Press Release
>>
>> > It's a good idea, David. The only question is cost. If a sponsor/ 
>> donor is
>> > willing to pick up the cost of the release (typically $500-$1K  
>> for domestic;
>> > double that for international), I'm for it. Otherwise I'd put it  
>> up on the
>> > OpenID.net site and do the blogging campaign.
>>
>> JanRain just uses prweb for their releases ... I think its $399 per
>> release.  However, I'm of the thought that a blogging campaign would
>> be a bit better ... :-)
>>
>> - Scott
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Johannes Ernst
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