Re: Geo advocacy successes

On 3/27/07 4:00 PM, "Andy Mabbett" <andypigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

> 
> Those of you not following changes on the Wiki might
like to know that
> I've had some successes, as part of our
"advocacy" drive:
> 
>       <http://micr
oformats.org/wiki/advocacy>

<snip>

Andy, congratulations on your advocacy successes!


> In each case, I e-mailed a short paragraph about the
relevant
> microformats, links to the 'wiki', and a sample of
their mark up, with
> and without microformats added.
> 
> If we all (and, yes, that includes you) send just one
e-mail a week, to
> a likely site, just think how much more quickly
microformats will
> spread.

I also want to congratulate both your positive attitude and
focus here and
encourage you to share representative samples of the emails
you have sent
that have resulted in successes to make it just that much
easier for the
rest of the community to follow your suggestion and example
of sending just
one email a week to likely sites.

h
ttp://microformats.org/wiki/advocacy-email-samples

I have a added a couple of sample emails to begin with that
have resulted in
success in the past for me.

Thanks,

Tantek

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In message <C22F7588.8B026%tantekcs.stanford.edu>, Tantek
Çelik
<tantekcs.stanford.edu> writes

>share representative samples of the emails you have sent
that have
>resulted in successes to make it just that much easier
for the rest of
>the community to follow your suggestion and example of
sending just one
>email a week to likely sites.
>
>h
ttp://microformats.org/wiki/advocacy-email-samples

Done. One a week was a minima, of course!

It's also important that people list the sites they've
contacted, on the
advocacy page:

        <http://micr
oformats.org/wiki/advocacy>

so that we don't end up "spamming" (as they would
se  ti) the same one.

Also, if people have contacts in the larger, effectively
uncontactable
organisations (Google IMDb, large multinationals, etc.) the
should, if
appropriate, make use of them.

-- 
Andy Mabbett

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