Stephen, Your comment below really struck me: "One thing that I'm already involved in that I think more of us will need to do is combining our services with others that offer complementary or matching services. As an example, I'm working with a few well-known names in the Enterprise 2.0 space to come up with a vendor- and analyst-independent offering to provide services to clients wherever they are."
Couldn't agree more. Am also sensitive to the "tooting one's own horn" situation when it comes to sharing what we're each up to, but without knowing a bit more about what we're each doing, it is kind of hard to reach out properly. What do people think we should do (which could also facilitate Elias' suggestion in the next email in this thread): 1. Call for introductions on this list, on a business/commercial front. Aside from the "what we do" in a business sense, posts would include the sorts of people we'd like to meet or work with, either as customers or as partners or as suppliers, or as investors, or as mentors (or combinations of the above). Pro: we've got everything we need already. Con: the list could get a bit noisy, and the promotional nature of it might really p*ss people off. 2. Create an alternative/sub list for these business/commercial posts. Pro: reduces noise on this list, doesn't p*ss people off. Con: two lists? Argh! Will people be bothered to sign up to both? Etc etc 3. Declare a happy hour between 2pm and 3pm each day where these sorts of business/commercial emails are welcomed and encouraged, or have a 'pitch day' mid-week next week, to get the noise out of the way all at once. Pro: focused noise instead of drip noise is probably easier to ignore. Con: what time zone? Isn't noise still just noise? 4. Do something like Techcrunch's elevator pitch Friday, where people video themselves for a limited time - perhaps limit to 3 or 5 minutes? - to tell the same story they would have done in the email above, and have one email per week which is like a digest of the videos, linked to on youtube or similar. Pro: less noise (one email, a few links, easier to ignore if you don't give a toss), and more interaction - vision, faces, etc - than an email, which can help to build a relationship a bit more. Also has benefit of being more 'media friendly' should the likes of Technation and ZDNet and @bhowarth want to check out the posts for potential stories or profile pieces. Finally, gives us a chance to be a bit creative. Cons: requires people to have a webcam to participate. The 4th one has my vote. There's probably another dozen alternatives: would love to hear other people's suggestions, votes of support for any or none of the above, etc. Geoff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
