Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice coverage in American Medical Writers Association Journal

Professionals are not that concerned about the license fee if it saves
them time.  Unfortunately, MS Office is the de facto standard in
business document preparation, even when it isn't the best solution.
It seems like a no-brain, obligatory purchase to most in the medical
writing field.

Medical writers often have issues with clients sending them PDF files,
which they have to edit.  On the mailing lists, everyone mentions paid
products for PDF conversion.  I mentioned that LibreOffice can do this
for free, and can save them time looking for programs to handle
unusual file formats.

I hope to expose more members to LibreOffice, and hopefully get some
feedback on what would make the software more useful to small
businesses and freelancers who make their living doing document
preparation and writing.

Robert

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:18 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P
<webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:
> On 04/09/2012 09:33 AM, Simon Phipps wrote:
> > On 9 Apr 2012, at 14:31, Robert Ryley wrote:
> >
> > > I figured list members might be pleased to know about this.
> > >
> > > I am a member of the AMWA (American Medical Writers Association) and
> > > contributor to their Technology section.  I was able to get a 150 word
> > > article placed on LibreOffice before a large audience of professional
> > > writers in the pharmaceutical, medical, and health sector.  I may have
> > > the opportunity to write a longer, feature article and plan on
> > > covering LibreOffice sometime later this year.
> >
> > That's excellent, thanks for letting us know. If you find a URL pointing
> > to it be sure to say as several of us like to post links about LibreOffice
> > on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > S.
>
> It would be great to have any group of professionals get the word that there
> is an alternative to MS Office and their big fees.
>
> It would be hard for someone like me to write up something "informative"
> about the benefits of LibreOffice to a group of professionals that is 150
> words of less.  Some can, but for me there are so many things I would want
> to cover.  The last bit being that LO is free where MSO costs $100 or more
> every time they want you to upgrade to their newest version.
>
>
>
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