Fwd: Maximise Your Activist Publicity In Bristol

Hello,

I thought this would be of interest to you all.

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Maximise Your Activist Publicity In Bristol

1.) The Internet / Email Is Not A Magic Wand

2.) Make Use Of All Inclusive Internet Outlets

1.) THE INTERNET / EMAIL IS NOT A MAGIC WAND

The internet / email is not a magic wand. In reality it is little different to snail mail in terms of how long it takes people to read all their mail. If you email an event, or post an event to an internet calendar, a day or two before the event, then only a small percentage of people will have read about your event by the time it has taken place!

Think about it! Do you read every item of mail the moment it enters your inbox? After 3 days only around 50% of people have read all their mail. It takes at least a full week for the overwhelming majority of people to read all their mail. Think about those people who only visit an internet café once a week. Many people simply don't have time to check their mail, or the internet, everyday.

ALSO: Always remember to check that you have included the date, time and venue (meaning a proper address) in your publicity. It is depressing how many people don't check that they have provided this most basic of information (or bizarrely, don't even think they need to provide proper address details!).

2.) MAKE USE OF ALL INCLUSIVE INTERNET OUTLETS

Bristol Indymedia, Bristol Social Forum, and Bristol Activists are inclusive outlets which accept posts of a community / anarchist / socialist nature. While Bristol Indymedia is intended to accept posts of a Bristol / South West relevance, Bristol Social Forum and Bristol Activists accept national mail, as long as you are from the Bristol / South West area.

If you care about your campaign it is up to you to make the effort to post it as widely as possible, as coherently as possible, as and far in advance as possible. Posting a slap dash post to an e-group or website just hours before the event, indicates only that the campaign isn't that much cared about by the campaigners themselves! Think about it!

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BRISTOL SOCIAL FORUM : To join Bristol Social Forum send a blank email to the address below, and then wait for, and reply to, the confirmation message:

bristolsocialforum-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Once subscribed you can send mail to Bristol Social Forum by emailing:

bristolsocialforum@yahoogroups.com

You can also visit Bristol Social Forum:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bristolsocialforum/

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BRISTOL INDYMEDIA: `Read It, Write It, Your Site, Your News…'

Visit: http://www.bristol.indymedia.org

Click `Submit An Article' to submit an article to the newswire, or click `Add Your Event' to add an event to the calendar. Both buttons are in the right hand column towards the top of the screen.

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BRISTOL ACTIVISTS : To join Bristol Activists send a blank email to the address below, and then wait for, and reply to, the confirmation message:

bristol-activists-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Once subscribed you can send mail to Bristol Activists by emailing:

bristol-activists@yahoogroups.com

You can also visit Bristol Activists:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bristol-activists/

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EXTRA NOTES:

Neither Bristol Activists or Bristol Social Forum require you to adhere to a party line, viewpoint, or political platform beyond a general recognition that posts should not be of a discriminatory nature on the basis of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or disability.

Both Bristol Activists and Bristol Social Forum are set to `digest' mode, which means that you will not receive a barrage of individual emails direct to your inbox, and will instead receive a digested compilation of emails sent to the group on a regular basis.

If you have difficulty subscribing to either of the above groups, then email the address below to be subscribed manually:

bristolsocialforum@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks.