Self-promotion via out-of-office autoreply

by Matt Asay

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I emailed a media friend today to ask if he'd have time to meet when I'm in New York next month. The reply? Classic.

(Credit: Matt Asay)

Mindless sheep that I am, I'm now on his blog. :-)

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay.

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by openhelix September 17, 2008 11:33 AM PDT: Haha, if you ever make it out the SF bay area we'll do drinks. No blog promotion allowed! ;) ...oh, except this one - http://www.networkworld.com/community/lewis; Like this Reply to this comment

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Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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