9 ways to spread the word about the snow sprint
DESCRIPTION
This is the presentation I wanted to do at the Snow Sprint. Turns out I have no voice right now so I will blog it instead of doing a talk.The Snow Sprint is a gathering of about 50 people in the austrian alps to program on open source projects. It rocks every year!TRANSCRIPT
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9 ways to spread the word about the
Snow Sprint
Christian Scholz http://mrtopf.de/blog
http://openplans.org/projects/snow-sprint-2008
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BLOG ABOUT IT
platformshttp://wordpress.com
http://blogger.com
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USE A BLOG EDITOR
ScribeFire: http://scribefire.comFlock: http://flock.com
MarsEditecto
Qumana
2It makes blogging easier!
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TAG YOUR POSTS<a href=“http://technorati.com/tag/snowsprint“
rel=“tag“>snowsprint</a>
<a href=“http://technorati.com/tag/snowsprint2008“ rel=“tag“>snowsprint2008</a>
3Editors do that for you.
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POST PHOTOS TO FLICKR
tags:
snowsprintsnowsprint2008
plonezope
python4add them to groups, too!
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LINK TO OTHER PEOPLE
because they might link back
for Twitter: http://twitter.com/plonehttp://twitter.com/mrtopf
link to people reading this!6
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DEFINE YOUR AUDIENCE
other Plone/Zope developers
other developers in general
non-programmers but interested in Open Source
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DEFINE YOUR CONTENT
What are you working on?
What cool stuff did you discover here?
What were the discussions going on?
Why do you love this event?
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INTERVIEWSbe guest on my podcast and talk about
what you do!
explain it for your mother!
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WHERE DO YOU FIND IT ALL?
technoratihttp://technorati.com/search/
snowsprint2008?authority=a5&language=n
flickrhttp://flickr.com/photos/tags/
snowsprint2008