[SGVLUG] help promote our user group! we need more people!

[Miguel Tek]

Howdy folks,
First off, I'd like to say "Hi" to everyone as I just joined the list & am
looking forward to attending the first meeting.

As far as garnering more interest in attendees, I've got a couple ideas.
Everyone's got blogs these days & I'm sure most of you do as well. Maybe
writing up a small bit about it would, at least, expose more folks to this.
The same could be used for the myriad of social networking sites out there-
myspace, gather, friendster, linkedIn, etc.

Also, what about emailing your friends about it? I know, personally, the
majority of my friends are non-techies but they might know a friend of a
friend, etc. As someone who's an avid believer in open-source & Linux, I
tell lots of friends about it, blog about & the like in an effort to at
least open people's eyes to the fact they have options they're not even
aware of.

Since I've yet to meet you folks, I hope this doesn't come off as "who's
this new guy trying to talk to?"

Cya folks next Thursday,
--miguel

On 6/7/07, Matthew Gallizzi <matthew.gallizzi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> mhmm, good points. Especially the first. I can definitely see some issues
> there.
>
> On 6/7/07, Emerson, Tom (*IC) < Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
> >
> > Interesting, but has a few problems -- I set up a search for the term
> > "rockets" and got an article on Brittany Spears (hitting "rock" bottom),
> > someone who mentioned eating at "johnny rockets", a page of band events
> > where one band (or was it a song?) had the word "rocket" in their name,
> > and so on.  All too often when I search for "linux", I get unrelated
> > pages where there happens to be an /ad/ for something "linux related" on
> > the page -- the "story" itself has nothing to do with linux...
> >
> > I'm also not too keen on the fact that the links take you to /their/
> > version of the page, and then you have to click again to get to the
> > /actual/ page referenced...
> >
> > -----Original Message----- Of Matthew Gallizzi
> >
> >
> > This site has a cool widget we could put on the site for Linux news.
> >
> > http://www.rootly.com/tools/widget/
> >
> > http://www.linuxforums.org/ has it on the bottom left hand corner...
> > but, you can do a lot of different customizations with it. Just a
> > thought :D
> >
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> >
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