Re: [Fsfe-uk] AFFS publicity wing [was Re: BBC Article.....]

[Paul Tansom]

** Richard Smedley <address@hidden> [2003-09-04 07:00]:
> On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 15:53, Ramanan Selvaratnam wrote:
> > I know everyone is busy but could not an AFFS publicity wing be formed 
> > to handle such incidents? Commitment to FS, shrewed thinking and cool 
> > heads is what is needed.
> 
> Anybody willing to help the committee with publicity is
> most welcome - volunteers please take one step forward :-)
** end quote [Richard Smedley]

Shouldn't that be "anyone not willing to help the committee with
publicity please take a step back".  You may have more people left
standing in the front row that way :-)

It may be helpful to encourage 'volunteers' to knock together an outline
of the remit for this.  I assume that comments will be official and from
an affs.org.uk email address, so:

- does copy have to be approved before sending?
- who decides what needs following up on?
- if there's more than one person managing this how do you manage who
  follows up on what?

PR can be a very tricky business and needs a level head and dimplomatic
approach - I can think of projects that could have done better in this
area.

Why have I just had the sudden impression of a whole mass of people
stepping backwards behind me - could just be the drilling that's started
up somewhere outside I guess - I wonder if we still have water, or
whatever service it is digging things up at this time of night!

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