Sponsored Media Marketing (& a brief progress report)

[Thomas Chung]

On 5/20/06, Karlie Robinson <karlie_robinson at webpath.net> wrote:
> Good morning, all.
>
> Pure Marketing stuff for you this morning!  Sponsored Media is beginning
> to pick up steam, but it could still use your help to get the word out
> (the marketing part).
>
> A couple of days ago, Sponsored Media was given some very valuable
> webspace [1], and it's beginning to pay off.
>
> We've shipped 6 sponsored discs in the last two days, which is just
> about as many as we have done since the beginning of the program.
>
> You can see from the May tracking page [2], that there are still many
> requests that need to be filled to get us on track for continual
> fulfillment.
>
> So, Please, continue to talk about Sponsored Media whenever you see a
> slight opening.  It doesn't have to be a sales pitch or anything
> spectacular.  Just toss the Sponsored Media link around [3] when you see
> anyone saying anything about ways to contribute to Fedora.
>
> You can also Digg the news about Sponsored Media.
>
> There is an article about Sponsored Media [4] already on Digg.com and
> could use some diggs to bring it out of obscurity.
>
> If you're not familiar with Digg.com, it's a system by which the
> community at large decides what's news and what's not.
>
> [1] http://www.redhat.com/fedora/
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/FC5DVD/May
> [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/SponsoredMedia
> [4] http://digg.com/linux_unix/Donations_to_the_Fedora_Project_-_Sorta
>
> --
> Karlie Robinson
> Owner, Webpath Technologies
> On the Web at:
> http://webpath.net
> http://on-disk.com
> http://portal.on-disk.com

Thank you Karlie,
Here is another related blog by Paul W. Frields
http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=666
Cheers!
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung