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I’ve been invited to give a talk this weekend on the marketing career path at Stanford University’s second annual “I Don’t Know to CEO” conference. It’s a student-run event to help undergraduates get exposure to a set of different business roles. I’ll be talking about community powered marketing with Alex Polvi, sharing Mozilla’s non-traditional approach towards marketing, and reviewing case studies of successful grassroots campaigns we’ve launched. Our workshop runs from 3:00 to 3:45 Saturday in Old Union. More details are on the idk2ceo site.

good times.

This is a shameless plug and an invitation to meet up at Web 2.0 Expo 2008 San Francisco. My good friend Jen Pahlka is GM for the show, and she and her team have pulled together another awesome edition. I’ve already registered and plan for sure to check out the Thursday talks by Blaine Cook, Tom Coates, Marc Andreesen, and Kakul Srivastava. Hope to see you there!

Update: Just announced - Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s chairperson and chief lizard wrangler, will be giving a keynote Thursday April 24 at 9:50 a.m. Details here.

Just a reminder that our first official Firefox t-shirt design contest is quickly coming to a close.

We kicked off this contest about a month ago as one of our first Firefox 3 launch activities and we’ve had over 1,400 entries submitted and more than 3,000 people join the contest pool on Flickr.

Tara Shahian, who’s been managing the contest here at Mozilla, has posted a note to The Mozilla Blog with all the details on how to get your entry in before the deadline of this Sunday, March 16 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (which equals Monday, March 17 at 6:59 a.m. GMT).

The Firefox 3 T-Shirt Design Contest is drawing to a close! You can still submit your entry, but time is running out - the deadline is this Sunday, March 16.

We’ve already received close to 1,200 submissions and have created a community of over 2,800 members on the Flickr contest group! There are many great designs in the image pool and we’re proud of the creative talent that has come through so far. The winning design, as chosen by the Mozilla community, will be featured in the Mozilla Store as the official Firefox 3 t-shirt.

Along with everyone else here on the marketing team at Mozilla, I’m excited about the creativity and inspiration everyone who’s entered the contest has shown in their designs. It’s going to make selecting a winner a very difficult but fun job.

*Percy Cabello at Mozilla Links shares his faves from the contest here.

We <3 you too.

I subscribe to a feed from the public timeline on Twitter on the keywords “Firefox 3″ to get direct reactions to our betas from the users of Twitter around the world. Completely unscientifically, since Firefox 3 Beta 3 came out the buzz that I’ve seen from Twittering Firefox 3 beta users has become amazingly positive.

Here’s a quick triptych I pulled together this morning from public updates. Keep in mind Twitter users are most likely people who are quite up on new technology and savvy about using it. To me this says: they have high standards for software and will let you know pretty vocally if you ain’t hitting the mark.

We’re doing great on this front folks.

Check the river of updates yourself at the brilliant Tweetscan service. The RSS feed for “Firefox 3″ updates is what I subscribe to.