9 ways to spread the word about the Snow Sprint

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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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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!

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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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USE TWITTERhttp://twitter.com/

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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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