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The FOSS Project Marketing HowTo: Press Releases

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 12, 2007

[ Thanks to D.C.
Parris
for this link. ]

“In my first FOSS Project Marketing Howto article, I wrote about
the importance of using your project’s home page as an effective
marketing tool. So let’s examine a few press releases to learn how
to write our own.

“Just as I referred to a handful of websites to demonstrate
effective home page design, I’ll point out some good press releases
to demonstrate how to write your own. Say, isn’t that how hackers
learn to hack–by seeing examples of other people’s code and
building on that? Maybe I should change the series to ‘Hacking
Marketing…'”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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