Message text written by Michael Fitzgerald
>I think we can do more marketing than we are doing now.
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Mike,
Here's another stellar idea - frankly I think that post 9/11 and
the XML bubble bursting - F2F conferences are a dead duck.
Attendence is in the hole.
I've had great success with online Webinars however - and
attendence is strong.
I believe I could line up something with Intellor.com (nice outfit,
good people).
They'd need some sponsorship to cover the modest $$ -
a guess here - we could get Sun and XML Global and OASIS
between them to sponsor it.
Then we line up 3 sessions. Executive level "Why RELAX?",
standards story - go forward, support, future, ISO, etc;
then implementation level "Where can I benefit from RELAX -
Business Use Cases", and then finally "RELAX together" -
hands-on live demo's of tools.
We pitch the heck out of this on XML-dev, the comics,
and zines, etc.
Then we record those sessions and put them available from
our site for prosperity.
If I can get volunteers to do the sessions - and this sounds
like a great idea - I'll get the sponsorship covered - and
then all we need to do is pick a date....
Cheers, DW.
p.s. Intellors webinar software works from any PC and
dial-up worldwide.
