Disadvantage of Being Geek-educated

Friday, March 22nd, 2002 at 8:53 PM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog 4 comments

Peterme shared an Adaptive Path RFP experience that isn’t so hard to believe. All bidding vendors were given the opportunity to submit questions regarding an RFP and then join in on a conference call to discuss.

The company questioned Adaptive Path’s professionalism… because they submitted their questions within the body of an email instead of as a Word attachment.

And they were the only vendor to do so.

This doesn’t surprise me. When I speak of CSS or other frequent weblogging topic, people have no idea what I am talking about.

Yet, local newspapers and other resources that reach the lesser geeked masses have little to no room to publish articles from the likes of us to spread the geekspel and help people understand what is going on.

Sure, sending questions in the body of an email ain’t as pretty as in a prettied up Word document, but it sure as heck reduces chances of viruses. Plus, it’s easier to file the message in your emailbox folders as opposed to somewhere on the hard drive or network drive.

I stand behind Adaptive Path and think they’re one of the most professional companies I’ve had the honor of meeting.

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4 comments

  • Posted by NJ Meryl on March 23rd, 2002, 12:35 PM

    Geekspel. WONDERFUL term, Meryl, claim it, drop the dash, and put it out there.

    You read it here first, folks.

  • Posted by taine on March 23rd, 2002, 8:08 PM

    People who insist on attaching Word documents instead of just typing the message are one of my biggest e-mail pet peeves. What makes anyone think I have or want Word?

  • Posted by NJ Meryl on March 24th, 2002, 11:21 PM

    Uh… the fact that most people have it? :-)

  • Posted by Christine on March 25th, 2002, 9:46 AM

    I always return our response in a PDF file, every time. That way we can brand it with logos and lock it down so they don’t change information. Also makes it easier to file them on our server so that if something happens to my e-mail we have the original document on our server. As someone who has answered many, many RFPs, I would never dream of sending it as an e-mail. It would look to me as though I just didn’t have time to be bothered with going the extra mile – and from a company perspective (I have sat on the other side of the table) I wouldn’t hire the company that responded in e-mail format.

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