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Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Thom's osnews rant
From: Justin Kirby <justin () neomantra ! org>
Date: 2009-12-28 1:40:00
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I don't think an article like that is anything to get frustrated about.
There are an awful lot of people already making proper distinctions based on
the rebranding efforts (planet kde blogs, identi.ca traffic, etc). In a
situation like this one I think a lot of the incorrect usage of terms in the
comments below are at least partially due to the incorrect usage in the
original article.
I've never heard of this web site before (
http://www.osnews.com/story/22662/Your_KDE4_Experiences) but if this is a
major site that gets a lot of attention we should email this author and
nicely/politely remind them about how we have changed some of our branding
and give them some examples of how to correct his usage of our brands in his
article. Heck, maybe he'll even write a new article based on it? Even if
that new article is poking fun at us for being a pain by making up new
branding stuff it's still press that gets the new branding terms out there
in front of users.
His email address is available on his user profile page:
http://www.osnews.com/user/uid:5/. Does anyone on our team have an existing
relationship with this person that might be willing to contact him?
Justin
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Troy Unrau <troy.unrau@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thom went off the handle about KDE4 due to it being a slow news day.
> The good thing is that the comments are mostly positive (for us), but
> the bad news is, our marketing strategy will take a long time to sink
> in *sigh*
>
> --
> Troy Unrau, B.Sc.G.Sc.(Hons.)
> Planetary sciences M.Sc. candidate - University of Western Ontario
> http://cpsx.es.uwo.ca
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I don't think an article like that is anything to get frustrated about. There \
are an awful lot of people already making proper distinctions based on the rebranding \
efforts (planet kde blogs, <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> traffic, etc). \
In a situation like this one I think a lot of the incorrect usage of terms in the \
comments below are at least partially due to the incorrect usage in the original \
article. <br> <br>I've never heard of this web site before (<a \
href="http://www.osnews.com/story/22662/Your_KDE4_Experiences">http://www.osnews.com/story/22662/Your_KDE4_Experiences</a>) \
but if this is a major site that gets a lot of attention we should email this author \
and nicely/politely remind them about how we have changed some of our branding and \
give them some examples of how to correct his usage of our brands in his article. \
Heck, maybe he'll even write a new article based on it? Even if that new article \
is poking fun at us for being a pain by making up new branding stuff it's still \
press that gets the new branding terms out there in front of users. <br> <br>His \
email address is available on his user profile page: <a \
href="http://www.osnews.com/user/uid:5/">http://www.osnews.com/user/uid:5/</a>. Does \
anyone on our team have an existing relationship with this person that might be \
willing to contact him?<br> <br>Justin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec \
27, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Troy Unrau <span dir="ltr"><<a \
href="mailto:troy.unrau@gmail.com">troy.unrau@gmail.com</a>></span> \
wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, \
204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thom went off the handle about \
KDE4 due to it being a slow news day.<br> The good thing is that the comments are \
mostly positive (for us), but<br> the bad news is, our marketing strategy will take a \
long time to sink<br> in *sigh*<br>
<br>
--<br>
Troy Unrau, B.Sc.G.Sc.(Hons.)<br>
Planetary sciences M.Sc. candidate - University of Western Ontario<br>
<a href="http://cpsx.es.uwo.ca" target="_blank">http://cpsx.es.uwo.ca</a><br>
<br>
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