[ssf] Draft announcement for post-meeting

@mparo robin_amparo at tiscali.co.uk
Thu Feb 3 17:17:45 GMT 2005 


I don't doubt you know better than me but
i would be unable to grasp so many points in any single mail subject.:
keep it succint,

Two lines is too long, imho,

something more snappy is needed
________

"Why don't you?":- become a Freedom&Peace champion? Join our causes...

_____________

(sounds rather vulgar to me but...:¬)

OR

____________

"Why don't you?":- become a Freedom&Peace champion, defy G8 and the ID
card-state, Make Poverty History and save Burngreave with Peace in the
Park...




Chris Malins wrote:

> On the subject of email announcements, I think that by and large it
> is a good principle to try to get the key message into the top
> line(s) as succinctly as possible, then expand later.
> 
> We could for instance start the message with:
> 
> "Why don't you?" :- Make Poverty History, celebrate Peace in the
> Park, go to Venezuela, save Burngreave, defend benefits and more...
> 
> And hopefully everyone will have absorbed these key messages before
> they have a chance to phase out. The original message could then be
> pasted underneath, I've copied the order from Dan's before anyone
> accuses me of cause favouritism. Any more than two lines could defeat
> the point, so I wouldn't recommend mentioning the whole agenda.
> 
> This allows people who's browsers (eg Gmail) may show them start of 
> message to get these concepts without even opening the mail. Which
> they of course will then do. I'd strongly recommend it as a guiding
> principle for these announcements.
> 
> Chris
> 
> @mparo wrote:
> 
>> yes please also cut out if possible the bit of "don't be put off
>> by... we are lovely people really" (it can put lots of radical
>> people off)
>> 
>> Generally speaking, i would like it much more succint, since it is
>>  advertising, that is shorter,
>> 
>> :¬)
>> 
>> rather than so much text, perhaps lyrics for a song or why not? a
>> poem
>> 
>> amp
>> 
>> dave thompson wrote:
>> 
>>> hi, excellent e- mail
>>> 
>>> couple points points though, maybe put more emphasis on the fact
>>> that anyone can bring ideas,projects, etc and and of course
>>> promote the SSF itself and yeah, cut out the daffs please
>>> 
>>> 
>>> dt --- Dan <dan at aktivix.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Hi!
>>>> 
>>>> Here's a draft for the first announcement e-mail of 2005, which
>>>> we can comment on / amend tomorrow eve before sending out 
>>>> Thursday eve / Friday morning.
>>>> 
>>>> A few points first though:
>>>> 
>>>> 1. How do we feel about sticking other political and cultural
>>>> goings on too?  Sheffield Social Forum stuff first, a big line,
>>>> all other events in the coming month. A request for people to 
>>>> send in their event.
>>>> 
>>>> 2. We should rotate the drafting, but I think the principle of
>>>> making a draft before a meeting and getting it approved / 
>>>> amended at a meeting is a good one - if only because people
>>>> will bring announcements of events we didn't know about.
>>>> 
>>>> So: ------- Sheffield Social Forum says 'Happy New year!'
>>>> 
>>>> But... can it really be February already?  How time flies! Not
>>>> quite fast enough for those of us pining for Springtime... alas
>>>> we'll have to wait for Daffodils a little longer.
>>>> 
>>>> As with daffy bulbs, though, there's a whole heap of activity
>>>> occurring underground we'd  like to tell you about, in the hope
>>>> that you'll want to help bring it al into blossom...
>>>> 
>>>> Sheffield Social Forum's first foray into 2005 is to be a 'Big
>>>> Open Meeting' loosely titled *'Why Don't You?'* (See attached
>>>> poster.  Don't be put off by the broken TVs, we're lovely 
>>>> people really!)
>>>> 
>>>> It's going to be: Thursday 17th Feb 7 to 9.30pm St. Andrew's
>>>> Church Hall Upper Hanover Way
>>>> 
>>>> It'll be a kind of mini-social forum, with food n drink n good
>>>> company - as well as productive talk and action-planning.
>>>> Here's a list of some of the things we know will be going on -
>>>> and please let us know if you have something you particularly
>>>> want to talk about.
>>>> 
>>>> *The G8 comes to Sheffield in June, as well as Scotland in July
>>>> - Make Poverty History Sheffield [website?] are using the 
>>>> chance to push hard for an end to global poverty, and Peace in
>>>> the Park organisers are getting involved too.
>>>> 
>>>> *Peace in the Park itself will be taking place on Saturday June
>>>> 11th.  [Website?] SSF will be hosting a 'Speakeasy' tent there,
>>>> and working with others to prepare, for example by going into 
>>>> schools to run awareness-raising workshops around global issues
>>>> - with the ultimate goal of hosting a 'youth parliament' (or
>>>> something less stuffy) at Peace in the Park
>>>> 
>>>> *Sheffield now has its own 'Sheffield 2 Venezuela preparatory
>>>> committee', who are working to get a delegation to Venezuela in
>>>> August for the Youth and Student Festival there. Hopefully,
>>>> they'll be coming along too.
>>>> 
>>>> *The Burngreave Masterplan has ruffled some feathers, entailing
>>>> as it does large-scale demolition, and triggered a local 
>>>> fight-back.  SSF is getting stuck in, looking for ways to hold
>>>> planning minister Keith Hill to his words... which were, rather
>>>> shockingly, 'Let the People Decide!'
>>>> 
>>>> *Building on previous work done around the impending disability
>>>> welfare cuts, we'll be working to raise awareness of what's 
>>>> going on, on the hardships faced by people on disability
>>>> benefits - and how much worse it could get if Blair gets his
>>>> way.  How can we support a group who are so often ignored and
>>>> sidelined?  Can you help too?
>>>> 
>>>> *Get yer creative juices flowing!  Creative Action Network -
>>>> those responsible for Sharrow's awe-inspiring lantern carnival,
>>>> will be there on the 17th, as well as various other folk 
>>>> looking to put their creative talents to good use.  If you want
>>>> to come and join in, there'll be opportunities to talk about
>>>> and plan any number of possibilities, including...
>>>> 
>>>> *A new Sheffield radical newsletter!  Radical means 'getting to
>>>> the root of things'.  A plan is afoot to launch a monthly 
>>>> newsletter, in conjunction with Sheffield Indymedia, with this
>>>> aim in mind.  It won't just be dull leftie politics, though.
>>>> Supported by a fortnightly writing and creativity workshop, and
>>>> due to launch its first issue at the end of March, we hope this
>>>> will be an exciting read, as well as bringing together in one
>>>> place all the month's best political and politico-cultural
>>>> goings on in Sheffield and beyond.
>>>> 
>>>> *Democracy Cafes now carry on under their own steam, first
>>>> Tuesday of every month at the Blue Moon.  But are they steering
>>>>  the right path between freeform and agenda-driven?  And just
>>>> how good is Blue Moon's cake?  (They're not paying us, you
>>>> know!)
>>>> 
>>>> *... and of course, Sheffield Social Forum itself! We need more
>>>>  bodies to keep the good ship SSF afloat in 2005.  There's lots
>>>> to do, as you can see.  It's going to be fun, but it'll be hard
>>>>  work!  Particularly, it would be *great* to know what kind of
>>>> events and speakers you would want to see in the coming year,
>>>> so SSF can make a forward planner.
>>>> 
>>>> *Oh and *please* bring your ideas too: you *can* make a
>>>> difference!
>>>> 
>>>> Hope to see you on the 17th.
>>>> 
>>>> Some p.s's:
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Please tell other people: word of mouth is the best
>>>> advertising! 2. If you want to get more stuck in to the 
>>>> day-to-day machinations of organising, you can subscribe to the
>>>>  discussion list at: 
>>>> http://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/ssf 3. I'm the named
>>>> contact at the minute: that's Dan on 07968 997861 or
>>>> dan at aktivix.org
>>>> 
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