On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:50:45 -0400
Leigh Cantrell Day <lday(a)redhat.com> wrote:
What would help greatly would be globally planned launches.
o press release
o supporting press blogs (we have 200 press/analysts subscribed to
our press blog)
o industry analyst meetings done in advance of the annct
o global understanding and firm plans by the int'l PR team to act
simultaneously
o global availability of spokesppl at time annct goes out
o live webcast to discuss launch
For instance, have learned last week that F8 is coming 11/8. This is
1 day after a major infrastructure launch. we are basically
competing with our own news and press attn. I suggest we launch to
the community on 11/8 and do big press on 8/12 (all of the elements
mentioned above) to get serious exposure + accurate reporting. It's
also Oracleworld (11/11-11/15) and press are fiendish for news during
this time.
Your idea makes sense to me.
What do we need to do to make it happen?
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