Comments on: RFP Microformat? http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:38:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Kevin Marks http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-7687 Kevin Marks Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:23:57 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-7687 A microformat would require following the process first -looking at how poeple currently express such ideas. Doc Searls's VRM project is discussing these ideas. http://projectvrm.org A microformat would require following the process first -looking at how poeple currently express such ideas. Doc Searls’s VRM project is discussing these ideas.
http://projectvrm.org

]]> By: cote http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-7571 cote Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:42:53 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-7571 Not being one who writes a lot of RFPs, I don't really know off the top of my head. At the Sun Analyst Summit, I had several conversations about hammering out the details from their side. I'd think we could just ask both the buy and sell side which attributes they'd want. And choose a narrow subset (maybe based on buying servers?) of that. [Insert hand waving.] Not being one who writes a lot of RFPs, I don’t really know off the top of my head. At the Sun Analyst Summit, I had several conversations about hammering out the details from their side.

I’d think we could just ask both the buy and sell side which attributes they’d want. And choose a narrow subset (maybe based on buying servers?) of that.

[Insert hand waving.]

]]> By: Bill de hOra http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-7489 Bill de hOra Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:20:15 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-7489 "RFPs exhibit highly variance" Um, 'RFPs exhibit high variance'. [The rioja, it speaks in riddles!] “RFPs exhibit highly variance”

Um, ‘RFPs exhibit high variance’.

[The rioja, it speaks in riddles!]

]]> By: Bill de hOra http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-7488 Bill de hOra Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:18:40 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-7488 "Seriously though, if we can hammer out the fields we’d need, it’d be “easy” enough to come up with a 0.1 version of the RFP microformat." Any samples? part of me says that RFPs exhibit highly variance. But maybe you're talking about excerpts/highlines for RFPs? “Seriously though, if we can hammer out the fields we’d need, it’d be “easy” enough to come up with a 0.1 version of the RFP microformat.”

Any samples? part of me says that RFPs exhibit highly variance. But maybe you’re talking about excerpts/highlines for RFPs?

]]> By: cote http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-5506 cote Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:25:54 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-5506 Graham: I'll have to check that out. Thanks! BillSaysThis: yup, I agree. I just need to figure out the first set of attributes. Graham: I’ll have to check that out. Thanks!

BillSaysThis: yup, I agree. I just need to figure out the first set of attributes.

]]> By: BillSaysThis http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-5477 BillSaysThis Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:32:33 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-5477 Microformats.org is a wiki and that crew are very open and responsive, so why don't you just open a page with your draft proposal and see what happens? Microformats.org is a wiki and that crew are very open and responsive, so why don’t you just open a page with your draft proposal and see what happens?

]]> By: Graham http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-5448 Graham Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:29:22 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-5448 Interesting idea. I wonder how this would play in the Proposal Automation market? (e.g., Pragmatech.com) Interesting idea. I wonder how this would play in the Proposal Automation market? (e.g., Pragmatech.com)

]]> By: James Governor’s Monkchips » A RedMonk Service: match-making smartups and suppliers? http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-5434 James Governor’s Monkchips » A RedMonk Service: match-making smartups and suppliers? Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:44:29 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-5434 [...] One way we might move forward with such a service would be to subset and augment an aggregated online RFP microformat service. The data would be free for technorati style aggregation, while RedMonk’s edge would be our relationships with the folks that wanted something, or could supply something, or the the new opportunities we saw. [...] [...] One way we might move forward with such a service would be to subset and augment an aggregated online RFP microformat service. The data would be free for technorati style aggregation, while RedMonk’s edge would be our relationships with the folks that wanted something, or could supply something, or the the new opportunities we saw. [...]

]]> By: James Governor http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-5408 James Governor Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:06:48 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-5408 well i called it and now the snowball is rolling downhill. even SOG thinks its an interesting idea. It would be an interesting way to completely change our industry wouldn't it? Analysts as RFP mediators... well i called it and now the snowball is rolling downhill. even SOG thinks its an interesting idea. It would be an interesting way to completely change our industry wouldn’t it? Analysts as RFP mediators…

]]> By: tecosystems » links for 2007-02-01 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-5369 tecosystems » links for 2007-02-01 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:29:24 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/01/31/rfp-microformat/#comment-5369 [...] People Over Process » Blog Archive » RFP Microformat? love the idea (tags: RFP microformat Technorati Cote Governor RedMonk) [...] [...] People Over Process » Blog Archive » RFP Microformat? love the idea (tags: RFP microformat Technorati Cote Governor RedMonk) [...]

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