Ask various organizations to advertise for us

[moorepants]

There are many organizations that we want to inform about the conference. We need to send an informative email to the right people at these organizations and also ask them if they'd be willing to advertise to their members and audience via email, newsletters, social media, and/or their website. To make this easy for them we need to have blurbs available for them to essentially copy and paste into their adverts. So this task involves creating these blurbs, drafting the email, finding appropriate orgs, finding the org contacts, and sending the emails. Below is a starting list of who to contact.

• [x] SABA (Jim Brown and Mel)
• [x] CA Bike Coalition (Paul Dorn maybe could connect us to someone)
• [x] Institute for Transportation Engineers
• [x] Transportation Research Board
• [x] Davis Bicycles! (Darrell Dickey and Steve Tracy)
• [x] Davis Bike Club (Darrell Dickey)
• [x] USBHOF (John Hess, David Takemoto-Weerts)
• [x] League of American Bicyclists (Andy Clarke)
• [x] American Planning Association
• [x] CALTRANS
• [x] Public Works Association (not sure if this is the right name)
• [x] NACTO
• [x] UCD ITS (Anne Marie Schaaf)
• [x] UCD MAE (Jacob Kitada)
• [x] UCD Civil and Environmental
• [x] UCD (Andy Fell)
• [x] UCD College of Engineering (Kelley Weiss)
• [x] European Cycling Federation (see this newsletter: https://ecf.com/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=570)
• [x] ECF Science working group
• [x] Berkeley ITS
• [x] The Street Trust (formerly Bicycle Transportation Alliance)
• [x] LA Bike Coalition
• [x] SF Bike Coalition
• [x] Vision Zero
• [x] National Center for Bicycling and Walking
• [x] Portland State University Initiative for Bike and Pedestrian Innovation
• [x] Federal Highway Administration Bike and Pedestrian Programs
• [x] Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals
• [x] Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
• [x] City of Davis Department of Public Works (Bob Clark and Brian Michelson)
• [x] Streetsblog (Jason emailed Angie Schmidtt)

More will be added.

[monthubbard]

I have already contacted two; Darell Dickey is a co-member.

• Davis Bicycles!
• Davis Bike Club

The blurb was one short paragraph with the website url.

Mont

[kngissah]

@moorepants Other people that we might want to contact are:

• The Street Trust (formerly Bicycle Transportation Alliance)
• LA Bike Coalition
• SF Bike Coalition
• Vision Zero
• National Center for Bicycling and Walking
• Portland State University Initiative for Bike and Pedestrian Innovation
• Federal Highway Administration Bike and Pedestrian Programs
• Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals
• Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center

Attached is a general blurb I wrote. icsc_promo_email.txt

[moorepants]

Minor edits:

To ___,

We would like to invite you to be a part of this year's International Cycling Safety Conference. For its first trip out of Europe, the conference will take place in Davis, California, the bike capital of the US and home to the US Bicycle Hall of Fame (For its first trip out of Europe the conference will take place [right here] in NorCal's biggest little town, Davis, the bike capital of the US and home to the US Bicycle Hall of Fame).

The conference started as a Dutch Initiative to create a space for advocates, researchers, professionals, and community members alike to teach and learn about novel research with applications ranging from community planning and product/infrastructure engineering to bicycle user and auto driver behavior changes than can improve the safety of everyone using human power to move on two wheels.

The deadline to submit abstracts is quickly approaching. We will be accepting them until March 1st, at http://icsc2017.ucdavis.edu/abstract-submission/. Some topics presented in the past range from solutions for cycling infrastructure and cycling education, understanding prevention and medical aspects of bicycle accidents, and issues specific to children or elderly cyclists.

There is still plenty of time to make arrangements to attend this year's conference, September 21-22. Visit our website at http://icsc2017.ucdavis.edu.

We ask that you share this information widely with your members. If you could share via your listservs, website, newsletters, and social media we would greatly appreciate that. Please email me if you have more questions or need more information before you can spread the word. We can provide you with specific blurbs for a variety of outlets. Thank you for your work making bicycle transportation a larger part of modern society.

The parentheses in the first paragraph are for local, California organizations

Check that out and make sure I haven't introduce spelling/grammar errors.

Some other things to note:

• People are more likely to post things if you have something ready to go for them: a PDF flyer, a 144 character tweet, links to our social media posts, etc. If you can create these and link to them then people are more likely to repost.
• We have language in the mailchimp call for abstracts that can be helpful when writing this. Please sign up for this. I sent you an invite. It also has a nice template for professional looking emails.
• We have a "call for abstracts" 1 page flyer in the google drive that you can use for language and for distributing in your emails.

[kngissah]

I need access to the Google drive.

[moorepants]

I added you.

[moorepants]

Kweku, can you make the campaign subject contain both and invitation and request to help spread the work. We should invite the orgs as the main item.

[moorepants]

Kweku, Mont wants to edit your text above. So give him this afternoon.

[monthubbard]

Kweku; I shortened the text to 3 paragraphs and reordered some stuff. Mont

[moorepants]

Kweku, note that he edited the text in the comment I made above.

[kngissah]

I'm not seeing the edited text.

[moorepants]

Mont's version (copied from above):

To ___,

We would like to invite you to be a part of this year's International Cycling Safety Conference. For its first trip out of Europe, the conference will take place in Davis, California, the bike capital of the US and home to the US Bicycle Hall of Fame (For its first trip out of Europe the conference will take place [right here] in NorCal's biggest little town, Davis, the bike capital of the US and home to the US Bicycle Hall of Fame).

The conference started as a Dutch Initiative to create a space for advocates, researchers, professionals, and community members alike to teach and learn about novel research with applications ranging from community planning and product/infrastructure engineering to bicycle user and auto driver behavior changes than can improve the safety of everyone using human power to move on two wheels.

The deadline to submit abstracts is quickly approaching. We will be accepting them until March 1st, at http://icsc2017.ucdavis.edu/abstract-submission/. Some topics presented in the past range from solutions for cycling infrastructure and cycling education, understanding prevention and medical aspects of bicycle accidents, and issues specific to children or elderly cyclists.

There is still plenty of time to make arrangements to attend this year's conference, September 21-22. Visit our website at http://icsc2017.ucdavis.edu.

We ask that you share this information widely with your members. If you could share via your listservs, website, newsletters, and social media we would greatly appreciate that. Please email me if you have more questions or need more information before you can spread the word. We can provide you with specific blurbs for a variety of outlets. Thank you for your work making bicycle transportation a larger part of modern society.

The parentheses in the first paragraph are for local, California organizations

[kngissah]

Perhaps I'm misremembering, or missing some aspect, but that looks like your edit of the invitation. He stated that he shortened it to 3 paragraphs and made other changes which I feel that I'm not seeing.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Jason K. Moore notifications@github.com wrote:

Mont's version (copied from above):

To ___,

We would like to invite you to be a part of this year's International Cycling Safety Conference. For its first trip out of Europe, the conference will take place in Davis, California, the bike capital of the US and home to the US Bicycle Hall of Fame (For its first trip out of Europe the conference will take place [right here] in NorCal's biggest little town, Davis, the bike capital of the US and home to the US Bicycle Hall of Fame).

The conference started as a Dutch Initiative to create a space for advocates, researchers, professionals, and community members alike to teach and learn about novel research with applications ranging from community planning and product/infrastructure engineering to bicycle user and auto driver behavior changes than can improve the safety of everyone using human power to move on two wheels.

The deadline to submit abstracts is quickly approaching. We will be accepting them until March 1st, at http://icsc2017.ucdavis.edu/ abstract-submission/. Some topics presented in the past range from solutions for cycling infrastructure and cycling education, understanding prevention and medical aspects of bicycle accidents, and issues specific to children or elderly cyclists.

There is still plenty of time to make arrangements to attend this year's conference, September 21-22. Visit our website at http://icsc2017.ucdavis.edu.

We ask that you share this information widely with your members. If you could share via your listservs, website, newsletters, and social media we would greatly appreciate that. Please email me if you have more questions or need more information before you can spread the word. We can provide you with specific blurbs for a variety of outlets. Thank you for your work making bicycle transportation a larger part of modern society.

The parentheses in the first paragraph are for local, California organizations

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[moorepants]

@monthubbard Where are your edits?

[monthubbard]

Here are my edits (I originally edited the first one above but it didn't get saved.

To ___,

We invite you to take part in the 6th International Cycling Safety Conference, to be held for the first time outside Europe September 21-22 in Davis, California, the bike capital of the US and home to the US Bicycle Hall of Fame .

The deadline to submit abstracts is quickly approaching. We will be accepting them until March 1, at http://icsc2017.ucdavis.edu/abstract-submission/. The website contains conference topics presented in the past, ranging from solutions for cycling infrastructure and cycling education, understanding prevention and medical aspects of bicycle accidents, and issues specific to children or elderly cyclists, among others.

We ask that you share this information widely with your members. If you could share via your listservs, website, newsletters, and social media we would greatly appreciate that. Please email me if you have more questions or need more information before you can spread the word. We can provide you with specific blurbs for a variety of outlets. Thank you for your work making bicycle transportation a larger part of modern society.

Need to make links links.

[moorepants]

Kweku, I noticed you still have www.icsc2017.ucdavis.edu in http://icsc2017.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/promo_flyer.pdf. That needs to be changed to icsc2017.ucdavis.edu.

[moorepants]

@kngissah I see that you have about half of these sent. The abstract deadline is March 1st. I wanted these all sent by Feb 1 to give people some time to submit. What is the status on getting the remaining ones out the door?

[moorepants]

Nice work here! Thanks.