{"id":609,"date":"2007-01-31T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T15:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/01\/31\/rfp-microformat\/"},"modified":"2007-01-31T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T15:58:51","slug":"rfp-microformat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/01\/31\/rfp-microformat\/","title":{"rendered":"RFP Microformat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/JamesGovernorsMonkchips\/~3\/84418230\/\">James has been hitting the (forgive me, dear readers) &#8220;RFP 2.0&#8221; need pretty hard of late<\/a>. It seems to me that the idea of companies paying attention to blogs and the web for &#8220;Online RFPs&#8221; calls for an RFP <a href=\"http:\/\/microformats.org\/\">microformat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously though, if we can hammer out the fields we&#8217;d need, it&#8217;d be &#8220;easy&#8221; enough to come up with a 0.1 version of the RFP microformat. Then we just need someone (<a href=\"http:\/\/kitchen.technorati.com\/search\/\">technorati?<\/a>) to aggregate it.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if you were Sun, IBM, or Jane&#8217;s Regional Network Hosting. You come into work and over your cup of coffee you type in &#8220;technorati.com&#8221; and then a search string like &#8220;<code>needs:bandwidth<\/code>&#8221; and you&#8217;d get all the responses from people who&#8217;d written up RFPs for that sudden spike in <a href=\"http:\/\/globelogger.com\/item.php?id=894\">Google&lt;-&gt;iCal synching<\/a> (or whatever else). Click a few more buttons &#8212; Skype, IM, email, adding a comment &#8212; and you&#8217;d be whirling up a sales cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like one nice way to wrap money and even (pardon me again, dear readers) &#8220;Long Tail Economics\/Marketing&#8221; around microformats and those nutty blogs we keep hearing about.<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer:<\/b> Sun and IBM are clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micrformat for Online RFPs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,43,13,17,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaborative","category-development-tools","category-ideas","category-marketing","category-the-new-thing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}