I want to point to a few valuable posts from "my CAD friends" about press releases and company reputation. These are folks who've been doing this a long time and are well respected. I urge you marketing folks to take heed.
First up,
an analysis by Rachel Dalton-Taggart in her blog on an article highlighting the future of press releases. Read the comments, too!
Second, Evan Yares
details of what appears to be an Autodesk created video that appeared, then disappeared from YouTube.com. Evan uses "fair use" to offer stills and tell the video's story. I'm embarassed when I see respectable companies do this stuff. But then Autodesk has not admitted it created the video, nor did the new CEO, who appears in the video, seem to know about it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=739069747045672188