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The Open Source Marketing Checklist is now online.

http://www.classroomtoolkit.com/marketing/open-source-marketing-checklist.pdf

This checklist follows the pattern of the Open Source Marketing Presentation.

Two presentations are available online...

Presentation #1:

The first, Open Source Marketing Solutions, provides an overview of what needs to happen to successfully market Open Source Solutions to our school districts.

This presentation outlines Eight Steps (traditional marketing strategies) that Open Source supporters might consider if they wish to become successful at influencing the adoption of Open Source Solution projects in our schools.

Link...

Text Outline and Overview of the Presentation

1. Presentation Component: Introduction

Summary and Focus:
What is Strategic Open Source Marketing in our schools?

2. Presentation Component: Summary and Focus: of Open Source Marketing Steps

Summary and Focus:
What are the steps to marketing Open Source Solutions in our schools?

3. Presentation Componen

(Note: This presentation is for the TCEA SOS SIG, Summer Meeting)

This presentation will...

* Invite the larger world to participate

* Focus upon Web 2.0 tools

* Demonstrate the power of Web 2.0 tools

* Irritate Open Source advocates who believe that Open Source for Education is a "software" issue

The presentation is divided into...

* Blog entries

* Forum interaction for pre-presentation briefing and for post-presentation follow-up