Blogging for dollars
Allen Herrel (the head lemur) raps it out.
And BTW Allen also writes at:
Interviews: http://www.lemurzone.com/pixelview/
blog: http://theheadlemur.typepad.com/
Community: http://www.evolt.org
He’s also about to start a product blog - with teh notion of creating a distributed network fo product blogs.
Here’s the head lemur’s post….
November 25, 2004
Blogging for Marqui
Today is Thanksgiving Day in the US. This is a day for giving thanks for what we have. The genesis comes from a celebration of sharing by the Pilgrims and Native Americans first celebrated in 1614
Thanksgiving was a celebration of the harvest, a time to gather family and friends together to celebrate their lives and to share the bounty of the harvest, which back then was hard work on a scale that most people cannot imagine. It was also a time to reflect on the freedom that the new world offered people of different cultures and backgrounds.
Today, Thanksgiving is a holiday that still brings folks together. It is also a day of celebration, but it is much more. It is a day to give thanks.
I would like to thank the Internet.
I would like to thank the vast number of people who have planted ideas, the people who have farmed and improved them, and the people who share what they have learned.
I would like to thank everyone who has built websites, who visits them, my 17 readers, and the uncounted number of folks I have never broken bread with, but whose relationships on the web, have made my life a much better experience for their kindness.
The Internet has put me in touch with my half brother whom I had never met until an email showed up in my mailbox titled ‘Strange E-mail’. Because of my childhood, I had considered myself an only child, until this showed up. Without the internet, I doubt we would have met. We have not met in person yet, but that time is coming. The internet changed my life as my day job is building websites, computers and networks, which I do to get more folks on the Internet. The internet has grown from a curiosity to a global village bazaar, filled with people, wonders, delights, barkers, hucksters, and sites from the profane to the profound, depending on your tastes.
It is the ultimate communication tool for building relationships.
Which brings me to the image on the left side of the screen. That is me and Marqui is the product. I am Blogging for Dollars. I have created another TypePad Blog to post my experiences and impressions, Product Blog with the pithy tag line “where companies meet customers”.
Yes I am taking money for talking about a product. Here is the deal. I test the product, post my impressions, and they give me money. Money for stuff. It is not any more complicated than that. It is my blog and my writing will be just as direct as it is here. But you probably knew that.
Here is the unique selling proposition I am offering for this grand experiment. TypePad allows me the ability to add authors, which are folks who can login and post just like me. As Product Blog develops I am going to offer author privileges to a member of the Marqui Development team. Somebody who built the product, and can address issues as they come up.
Not only to you get to take shots at me, you also get to talk to the developers. This is what I mean by “where companies meet customers”.
Marqui is called a web based “Communication Management System” (CMS).
sigh…. this is the first issue…Rename it to CCMS “Company Communication Management System”. as that is what it really is. CMS the abbreviation already has too much baggage being known as a ‘Content Management System’, and Marqui is much more.
This is the kickoff and the meter is running.
Happy Thanksgiving!
OK - that’s post #1 and issue #1.