[Fsfe-ie] press releases

[Éibhear]

Yes, indeed. I saw all the press releases being drafted on the ICTE mailing
list and it was always well done and serves as a good model.

The one thing I amn't clear on (and this may be a bit OT) was how someone on
the list decided that a press release was appropriate. Have you any insight
on that, Fergal? Were they mostly ad-hoc or mostly an off-list decision?

Thanks,

Éibhear

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain
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Ireland.


--------- Original Message --------
From: Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear.ie>
To: teresahackett at eircom.net <teresahackett at eircom.net>
Cc: fsfe-ie at fsfeurope.org
Subject: Re: [Fsfe-ie] press releases
Date: 07/05/04 11:05

>
> One lesson from the e-voting campaign is that press releases should be
> mostly if not entirely quotes from individuals. This makes it easier for a
> paper to publish your quote. This seems to be how the political parties
and
> other groups do it and when we did it we seemed to get more printed quotes
> (that may also have been related to the build up of coverage at the time).
>
> A consistent point of contact (or two) is also good.
>
> Finally, in terms of drafting, the evoting releases were very successfully
> drafted completely in the open rather than by a selected few. It was a
small
> number of people who did most of the writing/rewriting but having it open
> meant drafts got useful comments from a very large group. These were then
> integrated into the draft by whoever &quot;owned&quot; that release.
>
> I don't know if that's the most suitable technique for this group but it
may
> be more effective than leaving all the work to a small number of people
with
> various time constraints,
>
> F
>
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:07:07PM +0100, teresahackett at eircom.net wrote:
> &gt; Agreed. But letters and press releases are different, and I think we
need both, but the authorisation process is similar. We just need to settle
a procedure. For press releases, how about:
> &gt; 1. Make a pro-forma document with standard IFSO header, intro
paragraph, blank for text, contact info - to be used for all press releases.
> &gt; 2. When a topic comes up, slot in the text and send to committee, the
website lists: Ciaran O'Riordan, Chairman;Glenn Strong, Secretary,
webmaster;Aidan Delaney, Treasurer;Malcolm Tyrrell
> &gt; 3. Approval from Ciaran (as chair) and one other?
> &gt; 4. When approved, final version to list
> &gt; 5. Publish on press release section on website.
> &gt; It doesn't take that long to do a press release, it's no more than
2-3 paragaphs of text. I'm happy to do the pro-forma bit after my exams, if
this helps.
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