<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sxipper is in the Webware 100 and I would not dream of issuing a release for that, nor if we won.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I do think a blogging campaign is a good idea to rally votes!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-- Dick</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 30-May-07, at 7:48 AM, Bill Washburn wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><DIV style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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.<BR><BR>-bill<BR><BR><DIV style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Scott Kveton <<A href="mailto:scott@kveton.com">scott@kveton.com</A>><BR>To: <A href="mailto:board@openid.net">board@openid.net</A><BR>Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:51:25 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Webware 100 Press Release<BR><BR><DIV>> It's a good idea, David. The only question is cost. If a sponsor/donor is<BR>> willing to pick up the cost of the release (typically $500-$1K for domestic;<BR>> double that for international), I'm for it. Otherwise I'd put it up on the<BR>> OpenID.net site and do the blogging campaign.<BR><BR>JanRain just uses prweb for their releases ... I think its $399 per<BR>release. However, I'm of the thought that a blogging campaign would<BR>be a bit better ... :-)<BR><BR>- Scott<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>board mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:board@openid.net">board@openid.net</A><BR><A target="_blank" href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board</A><BR></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">board mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:board@openid.net">board@openid.net</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>