Topic 20 of 100: Assembling the invasion force
Mon, Dec 29, 1997 (11:02) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
Time to get serious about marketing the Spring.
A new year is dawning and soon a new millenium.
Where will we be? Hopefully, we'll be more on the virtual
community map.
So, we need to assemble an invasion force. Will you join
me and become one of the troops? I hope you will. It could
be a very exciting ride.
57 responses total.
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Response 1 of 57: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Dec 29, 1997 (11:12) * 31 lines
Where did I read that marketing consists of three steps.
1. defining a whole product
2. defining who wants the product
3. connecting 1 with 2
We have this Spring. It has everything the WELL has except a millionaire
backer and 10,000 users. Do I detect a chasm here?
We do have a great core of contributors now and a decent interface. We're
on the web and folks can telnet here if they want. We have some commercial
websites that foot the bills. And an electronic commerce / database strategy
to expand on this revenue source.
When I started out in sales, everyone predicted I would fail. Then I found a
little fledgling startup company (Sematech) and $6 million in sales later I
had a success story. And they had a world class computing environment and
network.
Our product is us. And the interface here that supports us. There is what
we have now and there is what we expect when we add more features and enhancements.
What we are now is a place where we talk about the Bronte sisters, motorcycles,
Americs philosophy, food and restaurants, cars, movie and tv hunks, and assorted
other topics that are pretty much standard fare on conferencing systems like
Electric Minds, the WELL and Echo (movies, tv, culture, the web, the internet,
politics, music, etc.)
It seems like we've had our biggest successes in finding these little niches and
supporting them. We need to get good at finding more of these and finding some
corporate sponsorship.
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Response 2 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Dec 30, 1997 (00:35) * 1 lines
I'm on for the ride.
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Response 3 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan 7, 1998 (15:26) * 1 lines
What first, Captain?
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Response 4 of 57: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sun, Feb 1, 1998 (07:27) * 1 lines
Who gets the feeling that The Spring tries to be all things to all people? In my experience, it's the people who make the topics, not the topics that make the people. When random passers drop by, have a look around, and notice that most of the topics are utterly silent, they probably drift away...How about culling some of the old confs/topics?
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Response 5 of 57: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Feb 1, 1998 (07:53) * 0 lines
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Response 6 of 57: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sun, Feb 1, 1998 (19:12) * 0 lines
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Response 7 of 57: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Feb 3, 1998 (12:54) * 0 lines
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Response 8 of 57: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Feb 3, 1998 (14:04) * 1 lines
If you mean establishing a "hotlist", yes, I've done that. If not, what do you mean?
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Response 9 of 57: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Feb 3, 1998 (14:29) * 4 lines
Yes, I meant hotlist. It's been a while since I've been on the web interface, when my lan is up and my router is working I usually telnet in and use the terminal interface.
Today I'm logged on via webtv and on the web interface.
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Response 10 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Feb 3, 1998 (14:51) * 0 lines
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Response 11 of 57: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Feb 3, 1998 (18:16) * 0 lines
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Response 12 of 57: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Feb 3, 1998 (19:17) * 4 lines
Does anyone else use a conference list? I, being the sysad, keep all the conferences in my list. Today, amazingly for the first time in four years, there was a blatently obscene post in apps. We're amazingly free of garbage posts here since it's so open.
Sometimes folks have doubles because they want to revisit a conference twice during a session to see if anyone's responded to their posts.
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Response 13 of 57: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Feb 4, 1998 (15:20) * 1 lines
You wouldn't think there'd be anything to swear about in apps...
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Response 14 of 57: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Feb 4, 1998 (17:21) * 2 lines
speaking of apps...
can you expunge (KILL, KILL, FASTER, FASTER) some of the original posts in there. Basically emails (one or two per conference) from Net Rabbit days?
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Response 15 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Feb 4, 1998 (19:46) * 3 lines
*curious eyebrow raise*
guess I know which topic I'm
gonna read up on tonight...
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Response 16 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Feb 5, 1998 (09:52) * 2 lines
and I think you might have meant the
yapp conf, Stacey...
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Response 17 of 57: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Feb 5, 1998 (17:14) * 3 lines
app, yapp....
yeah whatever.
*embarassed grin*
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Response 18 of 57: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Feb 5, 1998 (22:12) * 2 lines
I'm dense. Fill me in more about which posts you want squished.
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Response 19 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (00:06) * 3 lines
I do love the blushing!
*smile*
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Response 20 of 57: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (12:55) * 0 lines
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Response 21 of 57: William E. Roland (KitchenManager) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (13:53) * 0 lines
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Response 22 of 57: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (17:22) * 0 lines
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Response 23 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (23:56) * 1 lines
past, present, and future all the same now?
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Response 24 of 57: Tommy (CotC) * Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (14:13) * 1 lines
Is this yet another dead topic on my conference list? :(
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Response 25 of 57: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (19:38) * 2 lines
Unless you spice it up, I guess it is :)
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Response 26 of 57: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (19:39) * 2 lines
While we're on the subject of topics, how about dropping by to "Babes", where I'm attempting to poach people to come and talk about...erm...well...you know....*B.A.B.E.S* :)))))
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Response 27 of 57: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (21:22) * 1 lines
Yeah, so far only us voyeuristic babes have been dropping by! C'mon guys, where's your pride? I wanna hear Nick firth over someone besides Daisy and Jordan!
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Response 28 of 57: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Wed, Mar 18, 1998 (15:18) * 2 lines
Double second yes yes yes to that. Oh yes.
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Response 29 of 57: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Wed, Mar 18, 1998 (15:29) * 5 lines
Yeah, so far only us voyeuristic babes have been dropping by!
And don't forget me and my Claire Danes obsession :)
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Response 30 of 57: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Mar 18, 1998 (17:17) * 1 lines
you've been peeking too Autumn?! I thought I was the only one!
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Response 31 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Mar 19, 1998 (00:20) * 0 lines
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Response 32 of 57: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Mar 19, 1998 (09:42) * 0 lines
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Response 33 of 57: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Thu, Mar 19, 1998 (10:27) * 0 lines
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Response 34 of 57: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Thu, Mar 19, 1998 (11:46) * 1 lines
LOL!
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Response 35 of 57: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Thu, Mar 19, 1998 (17:12) * 4 lines
You might want to come and find the topic opened about your good self, though...
We might let you post there, but don't bank on it
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Response 36 of 57: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Mar 20, 1998 (13:49) * 2 lines
Ha ha, I've already beaten you to it! (very tongue in cheek)
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Response 37 of 57: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Fri, Mar 20, 1998 (16:39) * 2 lines
rah rah rah rah rah....if terry ever makes me host in Babes, then I'll freeze you, ban you, scribble you and generally make your life hell. Because that's what we love....!!! ;)
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Response 38 of 57: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Mar 20, 1998 (17:22) * 2 lines
I'll get to that now!
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Response 39 of 57: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sat, Mar 21, 1998 (21:28) * 1 lines
Ha! I can take it. Freezing and banning I understand, but scribbling?? Please explain...
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Response 40 of 57: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sun, Mar 22, 1998 (13:10) * 2 lines
not sure if we can actually scribble here on the Spring, which is a bit odd.
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Response 41 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Mar 22, 1998 (14:59) * 1 lines
(so are most of us...)
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Response 42 of 57: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Sun, Mar 22, 1998 (16:03) * 0 lines
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Response 43 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Mar 22, 1998 (21:27) * 0 lines
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Response 44 of 57: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Sun, Mar 22, 1998 (23:05) * 0 lines
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Response 45 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Mar 22, 1998 (23:12) * 1 lines
don't worry about it
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Response 46 of 57: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Sun, Mar 22, 1998 (23:55) * 55 lines
well, hope you get a day off soon... dunno, i
must be wearing down... used to be no sweat, the
100 hour thing... hell, during my sonic-gypsy days
i went two plus years without a day off... now, i
go 3 or 4 weeks and it's like i'm going insane or
something...
reading the most infuriating book... bought a new
copy of verlaine's "saturnine poems", other day...
finally get a chance to really look it over and it's
CRAP... the translation is so frigging garbled and
just... wrong... the poetry is all lost, in forced,
stupid rhymes... the rhythm is all off...
example... "chanson d'automne" (or "song of autumn, one
of my all-time favorite poems):
The long sobs
of the autumn violins
wound my heart
with a melancholy
languor.
Suffocating
and ghostly pale
when i hear the hour ring,
i remember former days,
and weep.
And off i go,
on an evil wind, which
bears me now here, now
there, like
a dead leaf...
(becomes, in this extremely anal new translation:)
Leaf-strewing gales
utter low wails
like violins-
till on my soul
their creeping dole
stealthily wins...
Days gone by!
In such an hour,i,
choking and pale,
call you to mind,-
then like the wind
weep i and wail.
And, as by the wind
harsh and unkind,
driven by grief,
go i, here, there,
reckoning not where,
like a dead leaf.
(i mean, what the hell is that? it possesses no style... no elegance,
no life...
there's a special place in hell reserved for defilers of great art...
what a frigging waste!)
(hmmm... perhaps i should hope there's not a similar place in hell awaiting
defilers of topics, too)...
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Response 47 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Mar 22, 1998 (23:58) * 2 lines
(amen and amen!)
Nope, no day off in site yet, so it will be at least another two weeks...
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Response 48 of 57: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (18:23) * 1 lines
Nick, I'm sure Paul Verlaine is spinning in his grave...
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Response 49 of 57: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Tue, Mar 24, 1998 (14:06) * 2 lines
that would be fun to watch (the spinning thing)
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Response 50 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Apr 5, 1998 (01:27) * 5 lines
Hey, Terry:
check out http://idirect.tucows.com/affiliate.html
possibly interesting addition to spring.net being
an isp, ifn the terms are right and it doesn't clash
with Stroud's stuff...
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Response 51 of 57: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Apr 5, 1998 (09:02) * 7 lines
Will do. I just sent Stroud a note to change all his links to spring.net.
And yes, you sure can be host of genx.
I just noticed that Doug spammed the books conference. I can't believe
we've been spammed by Doug who I give practically free webspace to.
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Response 52 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Apr 7, 1998 (00:46) * 2 lines
Thought it was weird, myself, but didn't want to say
anything and start another feud...
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Response 53 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, May 7, 1998 (12:07) * 0 lines
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Response 54 of 57: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, May 7, 1998 (15:28) * 0 lines
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Response 55 of 57: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sat, May 9, 1998 (19:49) * 0 lines
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Response 56 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, May 9, 1998 (23:18) * 2 lines
he's posted them on here somewhere...
if I can just remember where
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Response 57 of 57: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, May 9, 1998 (23:26) * 2 lines
found it!
http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/web/45
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