What do these kinds of promotions yield? Ask Deb Verber: "The other day I was able to try some software that I won at Gnomedex... it is absolutely amazing. I won SnagIt and Camtasia Studio from TechSmith - about $400 worth of software, and I can see why. At my University, I am paid by a few of my professors to teach a workshop on PowerPoint; it is extremely simple... I teach people to make a four slide presentation with graphics, transitions and a theme. Camtasia Studio would totally eliminate the need for me to teach this presentation so often. What it does is record what is happening on the screen, you can then go in, edit it and add narration / music or whatever you want to it. This means I could go through the process of making a PowerPoint with this program, narrate it, put it on CD and just hand it to people to learn from. For anyone who teaches any form of technology to someone you can see how useful this would be..." Absolutely. Is she someone who writes for the New York Times? USA Today? No, she's someone who carries peer credentials - which is becoming every bit as powerful as the mainstream media.

Were press releases unleashed into a cacophony of indexes? No. Were high-level executive meetings held between movers and shakers to determine the best course of action, based on countless studies, meaningful statistics, and tangible results from focus groups? No. Was a marketing strategy drafted before anything happened? No. That's not always the way things work anymore. They threw caution into the wind, threw on a few stupid looking shirts, and did something that obviously came from the heart (or chest, for that matter). Someone got a crazy idea, and they were allowed to run with it. To what end? Well, if you didn't know about this company before today, you certainly do now. The carefree days of the dot-com bubble are far behind us, but that doesn't mean that businesses have to buckle down and throw fun out the window. Some of us can't live without a daily smile.

Digitally Yours,              
Chris Pirillo       

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An interesting discussion on Chris's comments from the July 23 Windows Daily... BTDT asked: "Do you think e-mail advertising is on it last leg as Chris said on 7/23?"

freedrinx says, "I think the e-mail advertising will last a bit longer, but being on the forefront of the next best thing is what Chris was talking about. E-mail ads remind me of newspaper ads. They are still used, but not as effective as the Web or TV. I'll be interested to see who jumps aboard with Chris."

Coffeeswirls adds: "I automatically delete them on sight. About newsletters, I have my own opinion.

"I think it's a bit early to pull the plug on e-mail. It's the first thing most people check once they get online, myself included, and it seems more personal. When I get the LG Windows Daily in my Inbox, it's almost like a message from Chris to me. I know he didn't write that message just for me, but my name is on his list by choice, and he sent the issue to that list... to me, if you will, by choice.

"With RSS, I have a different way to browse Web pages and read headlines first. Personalization is a thing of the past, unless you want to factor in cookies. I like the concept of RSS and I don't believe the RSS idea needs to be abandoned, but the 'human touch' impression of e-mail makes me vote for that format over RSS for newsletters. For newsgathering or checking my Web favorites, RSS beats a browser much of the time, but let's not forget the nuances of a nice e-mail message to a few thousand of your closest friends."

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strahd98 offers the solution: "Put this in the head of your document:

<script language="javascript">

function popMeUp() {
var newWindow = window.open("", "", "height=400,width=400");
}

</script>

"Otherwise just call the function.

"Basically, the window.open function gets these parameters:

1. Web page URL to load into the window. Leave this blank to load nothing.
2. (I don't remember what the 2nd parameter is, you might want to try searching for window.open on Google.)
3. Various parameters, including height and width. Here, you specify things like what toolbars to show. I think if you don't specify anything other than height and width, it should open a window without any toolbars or anything except for the caption bar."