RE: On Publicity

["David VanderWall" <dvanderwall@uswest.net>]

@!%&@! HTML!  I did it again!  Forgive the repost, but I want to make sure
the plain text default is working:

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People who are doing the contact lists, please read this message (or at
least the end).

Jim C. wrote:
Here's an area that I can help with too.  If someone else sets up the
program/site for holding the list.   I could also work the southeast from
Florida area north.  Everything is north from here.

Dave writes:
I've offered to compile all of the lists we put together for right now so
I've been putting some thought (but not enough time) into how we are going
to divy this up.  I've worked a little off of The Krib and the Federation of
American Aquarium Societies.  I have the entire list from FAAS in an Excel
spreadsheet (which could easily be transferred to a database), and I've been
searching elsewhere for additional clubs and such that are in the "Midwest".
Basically, we're gaing to need to divy this up by states (both United and
elsewhere) so that we know what Midwest, or North, or Southeastern means.

I don't have time right now to draw the boundries, so I'll tell you what I'm
taking.  Everyone else list the states (provinces, countries, whatever) that
they feel are in the regions they selected, and we'll see what happens.
When I get back (on Tuesday or Wednesday) I'll check to see what's left and
put together a list at that time.

Midwest, for now, is:
ND, SD, MN, IA, IL, WI, MI, IN, MO, KS, NE.

For right now there is a rudimentry "contact" listing located at:

http://www.users.uswest.net/~dvanderwall/AGAContestContacts

(URL is case-sensitive, folks, and you can't get to it from my regular home
page)

I don't want people to not start on this stuff just because they feel they
might be duplicating someone else's work.  That is going to happen.  This
list is only the beginning and the lists will have to be refined much
further.  So, if you send James your listings, he will send them to me and I
will publish the stuff out on my web site.  I could make it so that you can
enter stuff directly onto the site, but IMHO that poses more problems than
just sending in a list.

Technical tidbit:  Plain text is the best format right now, that way I don't
have to worry about not being able to read a Works file, or Access2000, or
whatever.


Regards,

Dave VanderWall
Minneapolis, MN


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