In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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A better way to promote awesome work
Sat, 2009/01/17 - 3:42pm — Benjamin Melançon
Kara
I need to start making calls to convince people to do an email blast for one of our stories
Benjamin Melançon
oof
People Who Give a Damn / VisionsUnite will provide a better way to do that sort of promotion... not a replacement for working the phones though
Kara
hmmm
such as...
Benjamin Melançon
well by having e-mail blast lists that aren't controlled by an individual or group
Kara
hmm
Benjamin Melançon
a sample of people on the list itself get to decide if something is important enough to go out to everyone in the network, or more likely geographic / interest sub-network
Kara
very cool
Benjamin Melançon
things would get a little less jealously guarded, and maybe all the people doing awesome things can worry less about building up their own silo of broadcasting to people
and focus more on doing awesome things
Kara
exactly
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