Re: [libreoffice-marketing] "LibreOffice Magazine" -- official monthly magazine to the LibreOffice world

On Mon Nov 29 2010 08:12:42 GMT-0800 (PST)  Benjamin Horst wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2010, at 9:33 PM, Danishka Navin wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Sadiq Saif <sadiq.9541@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I agree with Dhiren here. It might be difficult to produce unique and
> > > interesting content for the duration of one month.
> > >
> > > Also, I assume the magazine will be in PDF format?
> > we can add PDF option but just plain text email would be good for low
> > bandwidth users.
> >
> > We can cover;
> >
> > New Features
> > Community Events
> > An Interview
> > LibreOffice Tips
> > Success Stories
>
> As a email newsletter, this concept matches perfectly with the idea of an end user-focused broadcast email that I've been considering. We would collect user email addresses when they download LibO from our site, and add them to our mailing list. 
>
> A precedent for this is the open source project Miro ( http://getmiro.com/ ). Click the download 
> button on the homepage and you'll start downloading the app. While waiting, the page suggests you 
> enter your email address, and they add you to the mailing list. Every month or so, they send a 
> newsletter email, in HTML format, with news, reminders, events, etc. It's a good way to keep users 
> mindful of the application and project. I think it would work for us too.
>
> -Ben

As long as it is made clear to the user what they are getting and that 
it is not required to download the program.

Andy

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