[Plone-Users] Plone elevator speeches anyone?

[Larry Pitcher]

Hi all,

We had friends over on Sunday afternoon. They are interested in a web
site because he is an artist and he'd like to have a gallery where he
could show off his paintings. We started talking about web sites and the
software that runs them. They said that the software they have tried so
far is either too inflexible or too complicated, so I started telling
them about Plone.

So I spent most of the evening explaining what is Open Source Software,
and why is it free, and how do Plone companies make money, an on and on...

Couldn't we get together and come up with a short explanation for this
stuff so I can have people over to my house again?

I'm willing to collaborate if some marketing-savvy people could join in.

Please help,

--
Larry Pitcher
Catapult Solutions

Web: www.catapultsolutions.net
Email: larry....@gmail.com
Skype: larry.pitcher
Phone: 509.849.2660

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[Martin Aspeli]

Larry Pitcher wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We had friends over on Sunday afternoon. They are interested in a web
> site because he is an artist and he'd like to have a gallery where he
> could show off his paintings. We started talking about web sites and the
> software that runs them. They said that the software they have tried so
> far is either too inflexible or too complicated, so I started telling
> them about Plone.
>
> So I spent most of the evening explaining what is Open Source Software,
> and why is it free, and how do Plone companies make money, an on and on...
>
> Couldn't we get together and come up with a short explanation for this
> stuff so I can have people over to my house again?
>
> I'm willing to collaborate if some marketing-savvy people could join in.

Several elevator speeches were attempted at the Strategic Planning
Summit. I thought they were blogged, but the plan is very much to
publish them on plone.org.

Martin

--
Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who
want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book

[Gustavo Orrillo]

Larry,

I would tell him about Plone4Artists

http://plone4artists.org/

Hope his helps,

Gustavo

2008/2/27, Larry Pitcher <uncle...@inlandnet.com>:

[Larry Pitcher]

Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Larry Pitcher wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We had friends over on Sunday afternoon. They are interested in a web
>> site because he is an artist and he'd like to have a gallery where he
>> could show off his paintings. We started talking about web sites and the
>> software that runs them. They said that the software they have tried so
>> far is either too inflexible or too complicated, so I started telling
>> them about Plone.
>>
>> So I spent most of the evening explaining what is Open Source Software,
>> and why is it free, and how do Plone companies make money, an on and on...
>>
>> Couldn't we get together and come up with a short explanation for this
>> stuff so I can have people over to my house again?
>>
>> I'm willing to collaborate if some marketing-savvy people could join in.
>
> Several elevator speeches were attempted at the Strategic Planning
> Summit. I thought they were blogged, but the plan is very much to
> publish them on plone.org.
>
> Martin
>

Hi,

I knew that people had talked about this, but when I googled for plone
elevator speech I came empty. I thought I'd bring it up here in an
effort to get people to submit text or links that could be useful to the
community.

Thanks,

--
Larry Pitcher
Catapult Solutions

Web: www.catapultsolutions.net
Email: larry....@gmail.com
Skype: larry.pitcher
Phone: 509.849.2660

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[TriExpert]

It tickles me no end that Mr. "Pitcher" wants to perfect his "elevator
pitch" (which is the more usual descriptor in Am. English, at least in
my experience)...

Mark

[Dale DeWitt]

Technically "pitch" infers sales orientation and "speech" more of an
awkward and formal assemblage; agreed. But, the term "usual" should be
employed if sales were involved within the "elevator." Otherwise new
word definitions would be required. Yet reader "experience" alas,
generates unbound literary license. Either way, there ain't much time
to say nothin

On Feb 29, 2:24 pm, TriExpert <co...@triexpert.com> wrote:
> It tickles me no end that Mr. "Pitcher" wants to perfect his "elevator
> pitch" (which is the more usual descriptor in Am. English, at least in
> my experience)...
>
> Mark
>
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