[Typo3-marketing] OSCOM update and opinion about consultancies

[Daniel Hinderink]

> Hi Folks,
> 
> There's so much said so fast it's hard to keep up with this discussion. But
> let me try to give 'some' points.
> The consultancy issue;
> I've also made an example how everybody could fill in his/her own listing.
> It's made according to criteria of the Dutch government and they think it
> gives enough information for a company, NGO or whatever to decide which
> firm(s) they're gonna call first. So I assume it's a good start for us party
> people..
> http://test.netcreators.nl/Consultancyform-eng.htm
> Cause my point is, don't let us, a commission or money decide, just give
> potential customers a good choice.

Good point, I like that.


> 
> A new topic I like to ad to the consultancy discussion; can we also form
> partnerships with eachother in a kind of workpit/marketplace for bigger
> jobs?
> I know that sometimes companies get requests for projects that are way over
> their head but because they're afraid to lose it when they ask another
> Typo-company for help, because there's nothing arranged for co-working on
> projects. What happens then is that they try to find out stuff themselfes,
> the client feels the insecurity and pulls back, often completely from Typo3.
> Also difference in culture can be a problem with international jobs.
> So what we could do is, once we have the consultancy thing clear, is making
> internal agreements about what we cost for eachother, how and who is doing
> the communication with the client, how we represent this cooperation and so
> on. I really would like this and present it as some kind of international
> Typo3 consultancy firm with branches in countries all over the world. This
> could also do good for breaking up markets like the US or Asia and look
> really trustworthy for big companies and organisations. In my enthousiasm
> I've already registered www.typo3consultancy.com and
> www.typo3consultants.com which could be good domains for this purpose.
> I've talked about this in Switserland already with guys like Olivier and
> Georg and they did surely like it. It also covers the problem of getting a
> request for a niche market like education for which you don't have the
> experience, cause then you can manage it with a partner who has the
> speciality.
> Example; Netcreators at the moment has request for jobs from Germany and the
> US which we can't do alone, we don't have enough people and I think there
> really should be a local company/consultant involved for cultural
> differences and better communication. What could be more nice for me that I
> could say to my customer that I'll send our local consultant? Then we can do
> the job together. And when all companies involved save lets say 5% from each
> co-project for marketing, we can go to big events like OSCOM together,
> produce hand-outs and other marketing material.
> Well?

Count me in, great idea and much need for it from my side too.


> 
> The Education issue;
> Daniel, Blackboard is a kind of electronic learning environment which is
> developed in American Universities and now has gone commercial
> (www.blackboard.com). You can do in class projects with it and schools are
> paying for the amount of projects it handles via their website. Altough on
> one side it's gaining momentum, on the other hand there are already lots of
> disapointed customers looking for an alternative because, beside of the
> bugs, it's not flexibel and if there's one thing you can't manage with it
> it's the costs!

Ah, I remember now. I just forgot the name.
Still I would like to have some really accurate feature description and some
tech background. Anyone?

> Cheers everybody,

Still the question remains about the structure and contents of a
edu.typo3.com site.

Cheers,

Daniel

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Daniel Hinderink
Marketing, Press Relations, Strategy
http://www.typo3.com