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Viodi View Newsletter – March 8th, 2006

Click here to learn more about the Content Pavilion

By Ken Pyle, [email protected], Managing Editor, Viodi View

Content Pavilion Participants Finalized
Answer This – Content Participant Quiz
Last Call for Content for Content Awards & Reception
MTA – Local Gets Around by Roger Bindl
One Operator’s Solution – Create Their Own HD Content
Weissberger’s Wireless World – A WiMAX Update
Photo Bucket – The Heart of an Independent Telco?
Viodi Job Board —-Now Triple Play Jobs……
MovieBeam – It Must Be Real, As I Heard an Ad for It on AM Radio
Krazy Ken’s Korner – Viewer Generated Content

Trust is a good brand nothing more than trust? Trust that the products behind the brand will work reliably. Trust that you can try the brands new product or service and it will work. Trust that when the product doesnt work as planned, customer service goes out of its way to make sure the customer is happy and that the brand is not tarnished.

What prompts these thoughts is my recent and ongoing unpleasant experience with a behemoth brand really a couple of brands. With no notice to their customers, these unnamed brands apparently severed a relationship with one of their suppliers that had helped them extend their brand beyond their core product. The bottom line to Viodi is that we have been cut off from our latest subscriber list. So, I apologize if you are getting this email and have previously unsubscribed.

It also means Viodi has had to spend way too much time trying to find a work around to this challenge. Of course, communicating with this massive company has been a time sink. In the back of my mind, I wonder if this well respected company is really going to safeguard the Viodi information as they promised. All of these things erode the goodwill and trust I once had for this well known brand and make it much more likely that I will defect to a competitor, given the right offer.

The cautionary lesson I learned from this companys stumble is that brand extension can bring new revenue, but it also can cheapen the brand if something falls apart.

Content Pavilion Participants Finalized:

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Answer This – Content Participant Quiz:

Easy-to-use tools are enabling just about anyone to create and publish content that, in years past, would have required legions of highly paid software engineers. An example of content created via a relatively easy-to-use tool is provided in the following interactive quiz put together by Roger Bindl.

The quiz is a fun way to learn a little bit more about some of the participants in the Content Pavilion. The underlying technology that powers this quiz is Adobes Flash product. Using a Flash-provided template, Roger was able to quickly generate content that is relevant to the topic at hand and, hopefully, engaging to the reader.

This quiz is an example of community relevant content that an independent telco could add to their web site to make their broadband service more compelling to their customers.

Last Call for Content for Content Awards & Reception

And operators are doing some interesting things with local content. To prove it, Viodi is organizing the Content Awards and Reception to be held on March 22nd at TelecomNEXT in Las Vegas. The Content Awards and Reception will feature content collected from operators around the country. The reception will be a great way to cap off a couple of days on the exhibit floor. If you are interested in submitting content, please let us know by clicking here: