[Evangelism] Re: Fwd: Very nice Brand presentation

[Christian Scholz]

Francesco Ciriaci wrote:
> here it is :-P
> 
> http://www.slideshare.net/coolstuff/the-brand-gap
> 
> .francesco
> 
> Inizio messaggio inoltrato:
> 
>> Da: Francesco Ciriaci <francesco at reflab.com>
>> Data: 25 febbraio 2008 14:33:36 GMT+01:00
>> A: evangelism at lists.plone.org
>> Oggetto: [Evangelism] Very nice Brand presentation
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> you've probably already seen it; it's really worth thinking of our 
>> brand, especially after the PSPS! :)

Yep, that's a very good presentation. Not only because it tells lots 
about branding but also because it is a great presentation ;-)

The problem is though that it might not be aimed at open source 
projects. Here the basis is to have a company in the middle which is to 
some extent in control of the brand. They can decide "we only do sports 
cars". In an Open Source model everybody is the company and everybody 
might do whatever he wants with the product (framework? ;) ).

Thus Focus might be complicated.

So the presentation might say in the open source case:

"It's not what YOU say it is, it's what THEY make out of it"

Thus if there would be a majority who uses Plone as a framework maybe it 
is one. But I guess the PSPS sort of suggested that it isn't and instead 
is a very flexible product.

So the question here might be what Plone actually stands for.

Some ideas might be Professional, Usability or Flexibility which 
spontaneously come to my mind.

BTW, there are tons of great slideshows on slideshare about marketing, 
branding, new media and so on.

-- Christian


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