Low-Key Efforts

I look forward to the walk throughs - thank you. Patty - Games

Spoken Word Blog

I came here looking for a banner to the fire fox download site For my page (Because im anti IE "non standard compliance ,etc,etc"), all i found was so called "ego points" banners.

I guess ill have to make the link myself.

However i would like to suggest that if you really want to raise supporters to your site create a affiliates page for webmasters that do links like these to your download site.(lets face it support for your site is all in how many links you have visible on popular sites or any site in general) and if there gonna link to you, you should link to them. then use that point system to raise the most clicked sites up in your affiliates section.

Thats my idea anyways.

Word I'm out

I have read the period "organic software" on place, I really intriuged, and I really love the idea to take national understood period and use this to describe software is received I thinking and I feel this if I could connect certain marketing the period like that this, this will far easier be for people to understand waht this means without too technical more.
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Flyers, brochures, business cards, postcards — does anyone know if Scribus does these things? I'm happy with Print Shop, but I'd like to spread Open Source materials.

Elsewhere, I wrote that I took a business card template and printed up the FFX logo, spreadfirefox.com, etc. on magnet sheet stock. Then I trimmed them up into mini magnets to pass around. (They can be any size, of course.) The great thing about all this is that you can do something different every time.

Another thought is to use your desktop publishing software to make FFX postcards. Not necessarily for mailing, but for taking up on appropriate bulletin boards or to put on tables, countertops, etc. in places like student lounges, cyber cafés and so on. (I'd skip the laundromat, people aren't really thinking about the Internet in there.)

My latest Weblog posting was in relation to discussions around me about UFOs. So, I jumped on that. And embedded the link to the Firefox flick, "Xraalthraal and John". (I don't embed entire videos. Contrary to the way people act, most of the world does NOT have high-speed access.)

So, not only is this another "low-key effort" to promote Firefox, it shows that the makers of the Firefox Flicks Website have given us good tools to use their product.

Another "Low key effort" that can have an impact is the simple act of writing instructions for users of web apps or web pages and show Firefox in the pictures.

You would be surprised how many instruction documents I see that show pictures of IE displaying web pages (If not also the entire Windows desktop as well!)

If people simply see Firefox then if they eventually have to use it or decide to use it, then it may not seem as foreign to them.

BTW, if you are displaying the personal tool bar make sure you have appropriate links in there. For example Mozilla.org and SpreadFirefox.com :)
-- JustZisGuy

well, i am new to spread firefox, but certainly not new to spreading firefox. for me, the hardest part of spreading the word is explaining in a really non-technical way. its one thing to tell someone that its better, faster, more-secure, etc... however, they dont necessarily believe what im saying is accurate. so, how do you say well its better, and you should just do it while giving good examples and being as non-tech-elitist as possible?

when i read the "organic software" term on the site, i was really intriuged, and i really like the idea of taking a nationally understood term and using it to describe software. it got me thinking and i feel that if i could attach some marketing term like that to it, it would be much easier for people to understand waht it means without being too technical.
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www.codychamberlain.com

Giving Firefox as a bonus to customers is a neat idea indeed. BTW I think you made some good points in your article (see your other post).
- Otto - SOS