{"id":2281,"date":"2010-08-12T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2010\/08\/12\/being-o-t-on-mailing-lists\/"},"modified":"2010-08-12T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T12:32:00","slug":"being-o-t-on-mailing-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2010\/08\/12\/being-o-t-on-mailing-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"being O.T. on mailing lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA (nice) guy told me in a nice way, one of my postings looked like advertising for O&#8217;Reilly books on that mailing list. Luckily enough, we had connected before through Xing (for the U.S. guys: something liked <i>LinkedIn<\/i>), I gave him a call on his mobile phone, and we talked about it. He actually agreed, that my posting on O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s new HTML5 book was the least O.T. posting out of a couple, but still.<\/p>\n<p>Good to get feedback from &#8220;mates&#8221; and to sort it out one-2-one.<\/p>\n<p>That still tells me, to be a little more cautious with public announcements.<\/p>\n<p>It was about a presentation on HTML5, that I offered to give. Actually: From my &#8220;being slightly O.T.&#8221; on a couple of mailing lists came an invitation to a technology conference in October. The guy reckoned, if I had specifically offered to that particular group, that I would give a presentation on their meeting, that would have been alright.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. Well, it was meant that way. And &#8220;just in case&#8221;, nobody wanted it on any of the local user groups&#8217; meeting agendas, I would have presented it &#8220;wherever&#8221;.<br \/>\nI think I do need a marketing person for that. It&#8217;s just that I can&#8217;t even afford employing and salarizing myself these days. So instead of doing nothing I think I have to accept, that errors and problems and misunderstandings just occur \u2026 and deal with them.<\/p>\n<p>I do have these Israeli marketing girls on my twitter <i>following list<\/i>, that&#8217;s a little like an ongoing course on that topic \u2013 a little.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A (nice) guy told me in a nice way, one of my postings looked like advertising for O&#8217;Reilly books on that mailing list. Luckily enough, we had connected before through Xing (for the U.S. guys: something liked LinkedIn), I gave him a call on his mobile phone, and we talked about it. He actually agreed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-AN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}