Concerning the fund raising thing...I know that a lot of us has blogs, we can use that to announce more about the fund raising there..Some of us already done this but as individual efforts, but I guess it would be better if we had a uniform way (may be a couple of HTML tags containing WikiMedia logo & some promoting words about the issue) this will let lots of ppl to help us announce about it...Also will let people, who may not have much (time, info..etc) to post about it, just use the tags on their blogs yet really helping the fund raising..

Thanks for ur time..

On Nov 22, 2007 11:23 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:

All -

we've set up a blog to accompany our annual fundraiser. The headlines from the blog will be featured in the sitenotice:

http://whygive.wikimedia.org/

I'd like to invite you to submit posts to the blog. These posts can be provocative, and should give compelling reasons to support the Wikimedia Foundation. You can draft posts here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Why_Give_blog

Posts will be selected by a number of people: Cary Bass (our Volunteer Coordinator), Sandy Ordonez (our Communications Manager), Sue Gardner (Special Advisor to the Board), and myself. We'll probably try to have a new post every 2-3 days at least.

Once again, the point of these posts is first and foremost to invite the general public to donate. :-) Please submit stories in this general spirit.

If you are willing to act as a moderator for comments to vet out spam & trolling, please contact Cary Bass at <cbass AT wikimedia DOT org>.

For now, this is an experiment and as such, only in English. We will set up blogs in other languages if this one has a measurable impact on our fundraising.

Thanks for any and all help!

Erik Möller Member of the Board

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