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This street art on rubble in Toronto is actually a very clever piece of marketing
A piece of street art that's gained a number of Toronto residents' attention over the past few months is, as it turns out, not a piece of street art after all, and is actually connected to a significant redevelopment in the area.If you've found yourself traveling westbound along Queens Quay a...
#art #marketing #realestate #city #Toronto #QueensQuay
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@housepanther@goblackcat.social @shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizza Corporations are smart, because they focus on easy 1st.

If you want people to adapt your product and service, it needs to start easy. You cannot come out with something that is hard, then slowly make it easy. Few, if anyone, will have adopted your product and service, by the time it is. You must 1st start easy, and then add features as you go along.

I wish more developers understood marketing and human behavior.

#Foss #OpenSource #Development #Marketing #MarketResearch #Mastodon #Misskey #ActivityPub

This shitty moment when the company you are working for prefers to market itself rather than the open-source project you are assigned on. This is in the context of releasing documentation for a FOSS project. How are open-source projects supposed to be promoted and known if the funding companies are placing themselves first?

Had a very insightful conversation about the limitations on AI with a marketing copywriter.

Her comment was that actually writing marketing materials is a small part of her job.

If it was just about writing something that persuades a customer to buy a product, it would be a cakewalk.

What takes time is the stakeholder management.

It's navigating conflicting and contradictory demands of different departments.

Legal wants to say one thing. Sales something different. Legal something else entirely.

There's higher-up managers who need their egos soothed.

There's different managers with different views about what the customers want and what their needs are.

And there's a big difference in big bureaucratic organisations between writing marketing collateral, and writing something that gets signed off by everyone who needs to.

She's tried using AI for some tasks, and what that typically involves is getting multiple AI responses, and splicing them together into a cohesive whole.

Because it turns out there's a big difference in the real world between generating a statistically probable output, and having the emotional intelligence to navigate humans.

#AI#LLM#ChatGPT