Thursday, April 2, 2009

Post # 7

Hours: 9.00-17.00 Thursday (8hrs, 64hrs total).

Looks like it's going to be another one day week this week, so I'll be back in next Thursday.

More writing projects today. We're going to try to get a few more blog posts out of that 15-page white paper, and there are a few other blog posts that I edited. The blog is an interesting marketing tool. It gives the reader a real connection to people at the company. They can give direct feedback and ask questions. It's one of those things that I think will ultimately be the demise of the highly formal press releases and white papers that have been so important to the industry so far. I guess it's a bit of a west coast high-tech thing, to have informal dialogue like that (reminds me of the whole anti-tie, hawaiian shirt, cutoff shorts movement), but it really provides a nice human connection that is lacking in other forms of media.