<br><font size=2><tt>Bert Freudenberg <bert@freudenbergs.de> wrote
on 08.06.2007 22:32:21:<br>
<br>
> On Jun 8, 2007, at 19:41 , Jörn Engel wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > On Fri, 8 June 2007 16:58:09 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> I gave a talk in Potsdam yesterday which resulted in surprisingly<br>
> >> large press coverage for OLPC. Which is good, comments were
positive<br>
> >> in general. Unfortunately, not every journalist gets their
quotes<br>
> >> exactly right - in a least one publication they wrote that
I was the<br>
> >> only German "OLPC" developer, when in fact I said
that I was the only<br>
> >> German member of the Etoys team.<br>
> ><br>
> > That must have been the Spiegel. The article was corrected
by now. :)<br>
> <br>
> Yes, I sent them a mail and they changed it. At least in online media
<br>
> they can do that ... I saw only the Financial Times article in print
<br>
> and from cursory inspection it looked okayish.<br>
> <br>
> But it's amazing how people can get it so wrong - like, in the Sat.1
<br>
> news I was credited as "Prof." Bert Freudenberg of "Hasso-Plattner-
<br>
> Institut", even though I'm positive I gave them my card which
says <br>
> none of this. Sigh.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Thats something I learned from helping ffii.org a
little bit in Bruessels & Strassbourg:</tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>If you do a presentation with a lot of media attention,
always have a handout or press release with quotes like:</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>- Bert Freudenschlager the only German member of the
Etoys team explains: "I am sure that the OLPC will save the world
from beeing overpopulated by friendly aliens from outer space"</tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>It's somewhat awkward to write about yourself in 3rd
person, but it realy helps to get your message across without too much
distortion.</tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>A good example looks like this: http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/International_speakers_assemble_to_discuss_the_European_Patent_System</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>cu andreas</tt></font>
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