[ubuntu-us-ma] Marketing

[Danny Piccirillo]

I actually started this in our team's early days:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MassachusettsTeam/Marketing#Places
to Poster

I'll also email whoever from the first article to see if they'd be
interested in covering the Anime Boston fundraiser

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:21, <jay at lentecs.com> wrote:

> First thing I think would be compiling a lits of good locations along with
> the rules of that location, and contacts if needed.  I know umass boston has
> a lot of places to post fliers, but they have to be aproved and stamped.
>  There is also a time frame involved, two weeks if memory serves.  I'm sure
> most college do something similar, and many businesses.
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Martin Owens
> Sender: ubuntu-us-ma-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> To: Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team
> ReplyTo: Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Marketing
> Sent: Jan 26, 2010 9:38 AM
>
> So what should be a good strategy for not only getting a good poster
> designed and made up (we're good at that part) but also printing them
> out and distributing them to people to put up at places like this?
>
> Is it something you'd be willing to investigate Bill? I know I could do
> all the design and writing so we got that part covered, just the
> organisation of sending them out and getting people to put them up I
> guess.
>
> I figured maybe we could have a photo thing where people take along
> their cameras to take a picture of the flyer in it's new home to put up
> on a gallery.
>
> Martin,
>
> On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 09:10 -0500, Bill Simonds wrote:
> > I noticed when I was at the Curley Rec. Center in South Boston someone
> > had put up a Ubuntu flier on one of the bulletin boards. Great
> > marketing idea. Many people stop and read bulletin boards, looking for
> > great deals on stuff, or whatever. It's probably about as effective as
> >  a mass mailing, but with an obvious cost advantage. It's something
> > everyone of us could do with almost no effort or time spent.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Algot Runeman
> > <algot.runeman at verizon.net> wrote:
> > > In the light of the planned anime event, this blog post seems worth
> reading.
> > > http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1207&tag=nl.e101
> >
>
>
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