<html><head><style type='text/css'>body { font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; }p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Does your school have a newspaper? Does your town? Is Patch.com still kicking in your locale? How about the local alt-culture news-weekly? </div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Press coverage is kinda neat. I don't know how many spaces keep track of their media hits, but we do:</div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">https://www.i3detroit.org/wiki/In_the_Media</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">And I just stumbled across this one:</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">https://revspace.nl/In_de_media</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">From reading some of those articles, you'll get a sense of the stuff that journalists consider important and interesting. Phrase your activities in those terms, and ask everyone you know for help getting the word out. Write up some boilerplate "about the group" blurbs, put some download-and-print flyers on your website, to make it easy for people who want to help.</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">If you have a sponsor in the school administration, ask them to introduce you to higher-ups in the district, who probably have ideas and know people. </span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">Consider hosting an open-house for administrators, ideally with a well-rehearsed make-and-take activity. Try to pick something you want to be associated with, because people will forever think of you as "the robot people" or "the 3d-printed kaleidoscope people" or whatever their first exposure is -- you don't want to be forever pigeonholed as "the silk-screened t-shirts people" if silk-screening isn't a big part of your goal. </span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">Consider having a physical guestbook during open-houses, and ask people "your name" "where did you hear about us?" "who else should know about us?" "may we contact you for help getting connected to that group, and how is best to reach you?". You won't get many complete offers, but just one is worth it.</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">-Nate B-</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><br></span></font></div><br><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Brendan M. wrote:</span></font><br><blockquote style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(211, 211, 211);">
What are the best ways to get the info out there on meetings and about the hackerspace in general? Best ways for spreading the info at school? This is a teen hackerspace btw. I already have business cards, and I have begun to place them at various places such as coffee shops and local businesses.<br><br>Thanks for any help,<br><br>Brendan<br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br></blockquote>
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