Marc's Voice

Blogging and Discovering about Marqui

I’ve been waiting a bit to see what our bloggers thought about Marqui.

There have been a few stumbles (mainly my fault) but we’re finally looking like a real program now - so I can let you all know preliminary results:

Lucas Gonze - at least tried to try it out and is discovering that open source alternatives are probably just as good. So I just gently remind Lucas that Marqui ain’t for open source wonks or even bloggers - it’s for Mabel at the H&R Block office in Winnepeg office to…..

Now I’m not saying Mabel ain’t gonan use open source, but it’s all about the developers who build Mabel’s software for her. It’s THEM who have to know the alternatives. Hopefully what they’ll find is that for the tradeoff of spending a little money (starting at $199 a month) Marqui is pretty dam convienient and simple - to build out large scale ‘Communications Management’ solutions.

Eric Rice on the other hand - is glad that Marqui is using Marqui - pointing to Janet Johnson’s on-line brochure case study. Eric may even use it himself for a project.

Robin Good has probably the best written, most articulate, most persistent and idealistic posts of them all and is keeping us all on our toes. This comes from our one “professional” writer/blogger.

And Meryl Evans did an in-depth analysis of the tool - check it out. That should give you a taste of what Marqui is. And Jon Lebkowsky is pointing out that Marqui is trying to go beyond just text.

DL Byron points out how Marqui’s SEO efforts point out clearly that they need to be doing their OWN blogging - but we all knew that already - right?

Mitch Ratcliffe just kind of acknowledges that he’s part of the program, while defending the integrity of it, the company and himself. Right on to Mitch - is all I can say!

Nathan Weinberg has an honest assesment of where we are right now while Richard Murray keeps trying to break things and push the envelope. Coolio! I was counting on that! Thanks Richard!

Jonathan Abad keeps cranking out posts while Geek central thinks it’s as easy to use as using Microsoft Office.

While some - like Molly - just kind of do their duty, others completely go off - like the head lemur.

I’d say I’m blown away by the quality of the blog posts so far, but not surpirsed. I can’t wait to see what the others will come up with. At least Mr. Claus is considering being a client.

Meanwhile Marqui is slowly getting it’s act together. 2005 will certainly be an interesting year!