Model emails to potential volunteers/Talk
I've just posted our Call for Volunteers on a CfP Website: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/. It usually takes a while for it to appear online (SL)
10/08/12: 12:42: Sarah, that's a great idea. Which version of the call for volunteers did you go with? The short form or the longer version? I posted one of the versions (can't remember which now) about ten days back to the Cromwell Society in UK, who have circulated it via their email list (Colin)
10/08/2012 12:50 I posted the short one. I selected different categories to reach more people (e.g. interdisciplinary, renaissance, ecocriticism)
10/08/2012 12:54 SL: I think we should use Twitter to tweet short calls for volunteers. Could the facilitators get access to the Twitter account? I could, for example, search for people with "early modern" in their description and follow them. If we got more followers, we could reach a much wider audience and attract more attention (I'm occasionally running @mediaevum, which has 682 followers)
I've just seen that Birkbeck Early Modernists put our Call up on their blog: http://www.emintelligencer.org.uk/2012/08/08/marinelives-call-for-project-volunteers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marinelives-call-for-project-volunteers&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
10/08/12 13:05: Good idea Sarah regarding Twitter. I will give the facilitators access to the Twitter account. I'm sending you the access details. The target now is to get more committed project associates by September 3rd, and I would like decent palaeographers. They don't have to be great, but we already have five year thirteens (four Westminster school students plus one London Oratory student (TBC) starting palaeography from scratch. That being said we have a number of experienced palaeographers amongst associates who have signed up, including Gordon o'Sullivan and Karen Gunnell, a part time archivist at the National maritime Museum (TBC) (Colin)
10/08/12 13:12 : Good to see our call for volunteers up on the Birkbeck Early Modernists blog. Do you know who the Karen is who posted it? Did she publicise it on Twitter, and if so, could you Sarah perhaps get in touch with her and follow up. Perhaps she herself might be interested in the project. Birkbeck will probably have a good number of mature students, who may well have palaeographical skills (Colin)
10/08/12 13:18: I have answered my own question regarding the publicising of the posting on the Birkbeck early Modernists blog - it has been publicised by the H-Albion network (part of H-Net), with a direct link to the Birkbeck blog. Separately Sharon Howard has picked up on the call for volunteers, and republished it on her own blog. I still wonder who Karen, the Birkbeck poster was?
H-Albion @halbion
Birkbeck EM Blog: MarineLives: Call for Project Volunteers: MarineLives, a project using collaborative transcrip... http://bit.ly/MxcplD
Sharon Howard @sharon_howard
MarineLives project looking for volunteers http://wp.me/p322b-1d
10/08/12 14:23: I sent Birkbeck Early Modern a message on Twitter last week asking if they would be willing to promote the project. They didn't get back to me but I guess the blog post is a result of my message to them SL
