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rbushway
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Posted - Feb 01 2005 :  08:24:18 AM  Show Profile  Visit rbushway's Homepage  Send rbushway an AOL message  Click to see rbushway's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
"Having bloggers evangelize Microsoft's Tablet PC is what Steve Rubel suggests as an answer to Robert Scoble's vexation on the seeming invisibilty of the Tablet PC ...

All I would like to add to this excellent thinking is related to making sure such an exercise would be wholly transparent, leaving no doubt at all in anyone's mind exactly what the deal is here.

Taking a leaf out of Marqui's book with its pay-the-bloggers campaign would be my suggestion.

Quick recap: Marqui makes a communication management system and they pay certain bloggers $800 a month to blog about their product, where each blogger is wholly free to write whatever they like about the product, supportive or critical. Each blogger is required to clearly disclose his affiliation on his blog, and Marqui publishes a list of all paid bloggers on their website, including an index of all posts made by the paid bloggers.

No, I'm not suggesting Microsoft pays bloggers (but that's an interesting thought...) to write about the Tablet PC and/or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 (what a mouthful!). Rather, any blogger who gets a free Tablet PC as part of such a suggested evangelism campaign should very clearly identify that fact. Microsoft, too, would name all the names. Also bring in the providers of the actual hardware, the Tablet PCs themselves - get Toshiba, Acer, HP Compaq, etc, involved.

In such an open way - one that re-defines marketing and PR - the business benefits could be huge as with such transparency comes greater credibility and trust in the writing, the writer and the sponsors. "


That's a great idea and innovative thinking. I agree that it would need to be transparent. I especially like the idea of putting them in the hands of non-geek bloggers, like the Michael Hyatt's of the world.

url: http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050201MakingTabletPCEvangelismWhollyTransparent.html

Rob Bushway

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alienrat
Tablet PC Guru


United Kingdom
1259 Posts
My Tablet PCs: HP TC1100. Previous: HP TC1000, Viewsonic 1100, Fujitsu Sytlistic 3400

Posted - Feb 01 2005 :  08:38:25 AM  Show Profile  Visit alienrat's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Unfortunatly, I don't see how a bunch of bloggers writing about the tabletPC do any good at all.
Most people who are using the web avoid blogs as much as possible (I certainly do), and most 'real people' wouldn't know what a blog was at all.

I think putting them in mainstream computer shops would be a much better idea!

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minimage
Tablet PC Intellectual


USA
413 Posts
My Tablet PCs: Viewsonic V1250

Posted - Feb 01 2005 :  11:53:01 AM  Show Profile  Visit minimage's Homepage  Click to see minimage's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Most people?
I found out last year that one site (Slashdot) I'd occasionally visited for years was a blog.

Speaking of which, someone really ought to jump in and answer this "Senate Staffer's" question properly (re: cutting edge computer interfaces):
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/27/2119238


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alienrat
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United Kingdom
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My Tablet PCs: HP TC1100. Previous: HP TC1000, Viewsonic 1100, Fujitsu Sytlistic 3400

Posted - Feb 01 2005 :  12:46:21 PM  Show Profile  Visit alienrat's Homepage  Reply with Quote
yeh - I guess slashdot has bloglike elements, although I wouldn't really view it as a blog in the traditional sense.

Looks like people have already answered about handwriting and speech though.

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Trev
Tablet PC Advocate General


USA
2858 Posts
My Tablet PCs: Motion Computing M1200, Flex-dock. Pimped-out M1400VA

Posted - Feb 01 2005 :  7:57:20 PM  Show Profile  Visit Trev's Homepage  Send Trev an AOL message  Send Trev an ICQ Message  Click to see Trev's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
I know I could use the money, hehehe.


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