Call for Testimonials, GRDDL

Hello, GRDDL Working Group Members.

Congratulations on your quick progress to Proposed Recommendation.

In anticipation of a successful Proposed Recommendation period, W3C  
is planning to issue a press release in support of the GRDDL  
Recommendation(s). We are inviting Working Group members to  
participate in the testimonial process, based on the draft we have  
available for review, here:

http://www.w3.org/2007/07/grddl-pressrelease.html.en

The document is available to those with Member access. It will not be  
made public until the actual announcement date.

The guidelines for testimonials are at the bottom of this email.  
Deadlines for sending those documents to w3t-pr@w3.org is Friday 7  
September.

Our current plans are to issue an announcement on 11 September; we've  
made the effort to get this draft to you well in advance of the date  
in deference to the scheduling difficulties of July and August.  I  
will be out from 20 July - 6 August inclusive, but will be back to  
answer any questions your marketing and communications staff may have  
as of 7 August.

Again congratulations on work well done. We look forward to having  
your participation in the Recommendation announcement.

Kind regards,

Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team


Guidelines for Testimonials

Supporting Testimonial Statements along W3C Press Releases

The Communications Team invites the Membership to participate in a  
press announcement by submitting supporting testimonial statements.  
Testimonials are not translated by W3C, but submission of  
testimonials in multiple languages is encouraged.

Please note that the press release itself is expected to be  
multilingual (at least available in English, French and Japanese).

Testimonial Guidelines

A testimonial must

     * contain a statement of support for the W3C and the technology  
we are promoting in this release;
     * be grammatically correct;
     * be attributed to an individual in the submitter's organization  
(name, title, org)

A testimonial should

     * contain an explanation of why the news is important to the Web  
or to specific communities, extolling the virtues and features not  
before enjoyed;
     * include a commitment for support of the spec in existing or  
future products and/or services

A testimonial may

     * include product announcements which support the technology now  
or plans to support later;
     * be in a language other than English. See the SVG CR  
testimonials page as an example of a multilingual testimonial page.

A testimonial must not

     * contain criticisms of the technology that may undermine the  
success of the specification;
     * contain links to sites outside of W3C;
     * criticize other products or services;
     * exceed 100 words.

Upon request by journalists, we would also pass on contact  
information of companies who have contributed testimonials.

Questions and Follow-up

If your marketing team has any questions, please have them phone  
Janet Daly (voice: +1 617.253.5884) or send mail to w3t-pr@w3.org.


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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Janet Daly, Global Communications Officer
o: +1.617.253.5884
m: +1.206.228.1097
janet@w3.org

Received on Thursday, 19 July 2007 22:03:38 UTC