Need input on Libraryseeds

[Col Barrett]

Fellow Appleseeders,

Can I please get some feedback from yall as to who is leading the efforts on Libraryseeds in your state?

I have already done a couple of these and have found they are rather simple and not extremely time demanding. The event itself is typically no more than an hour and a half to share the three strikes, a power liberty benediction and a pitch for Appleseed. As for advertising for the event, you can download the cool 3 strikes poster here: http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=2077.msg174789#msg174789 , or request some copies be added to your shoot boss's shoot box at the next shoot. These can be posted at a minimum on the bulletin board at the library, over water fountains or maybe beside the door of the meeting room.

In addition to the posters, see if the library has a newsletter that our event can be added to. Try and have a second event in place so that you can tell your audience if they appreciated the message and thought others should hear it, then they should bring someone next month on x date. Also, a small ad can be run in local papers announcing the event, try and have this done at least once two weeks before, if not 2-3 times if the paper will allow. A sample of the press release can be found here: http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=2077.msg22285#msg22285 Remember, most newspapers need something to fill their pages so it doesn't look empty and the nonprofit angle is a good way to get in the paper for free. Don't forget to invite the librarians, their families, home school groups and your neighbors!

Once you invest the hours of getting templates together and contacts at the local newspapers then this becomes pretty easy stuff. I don't think it is out of the question that each member could share the story AT LEAST once a month at one library, if not once at two libraries a month. This will exponentially increase our exposure and get more people to hear the real story behind our program.

Please let me know who in your state has already made efforts or plans to on this front and what they have found does/does not work. I would like to collect info on this and see what kind of difference this makes in our program.

Remember, these can spin off from the libraries and requests may come to speak at senior living centers, church groups, home school groups, tea party meetings etc.

Please post here or PM me with any questions.

[Fred]

    How the heck can this be read "185 times", and no one has any feedback?

    Is it because no one has done a LibSeed in NC?

    If so, why is it so? (You can see how easy it is to do one - for Red Hat and above, it's nothing more than the story you tell at a weekend AS.)

    Can you care so little about the Story that you don't see the need (trans: Opportunity!) to reach a totally new set of people by taking a couple of hours on a Thursday night to tell them what they need to know of the heritage? To get them started?

[scuzzy]

    How the heck can this be read "185 times", and no one has any feedback?

    Is it because no one has done a LibSeed in NC?

Glad I saw this post. I'd just send a PM to spitstickler right before I read this asking for a LibSeed banner. Yeah, I need to do a LibSeed webpage next.

As far as Texas goes I'm not sure anybody has ever done one. I'd hope so. I know I'm guilty of not ever doing one. The links given in the first post on this thread will help in creating the new page.

I want a LibSeed page since we have a lady, Janice Campbell, who sends out a homeschool newsletter over 4,100 people every week. She said she'd let us include an article and a few links in one of her newsletters.

I believe homeschool organizations would be a good place to do LibSeeds. Once we get a LibSeed page up I'll email the lady I used to associate with in Lampasas, Texas. I want a nice page to describe it to her first.

Here's some good links to find a group near you:

http://www.homeschoolfacts.com/groups/index.php/Support_Groups

http://www.homeschoolcentral.com/support/index.htm

http://www.home-school.com/groups/

[9mm4545]

I am speaking to a home schooler organization on March 5, telling the Three Strikes and giving a big promotion to Appleseed. This is going to be an outdoor event so tricks with PowerPoint ain't gonna work. I do wish I had a big battle road banner map though. Is there any chance of getting one through RWVA?