What's to say that this "secretary" will be qualified to answer all the questions they've been getting? Just sayin.
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > A PR person might be fine. Get a recruiter to start looking for one today. > > But my suggestion is: Call up a couple of temp agencies *right now* > and sign a secretary by tomorrow at lunch. Maybe it will be a wild > one-week gig for them; fine. > > But you never know how long you'll be in the spotlight: take advantage of > it. > > SJ > > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Alex Kozak <[email protected]> > wrote: > > My two cents: they have a huge opportunity here to scale this project > into a > > very successful venture (win-win for openness), so maybe it would serve > > long-term goals to hire PR rather than an "email answerer" :) > > It's just a small shift in scale-of-thought, but can make a difference > down > > the road. > > > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Precisely :) > >> > >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Parker Higgins < > [email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > I'd guess somebody to handle correspondence with the outside world. > (Or > >> > at > >> > least, synthesize it to present to the team, accept a condensed > response > >> > from the team, and proliferate a more eloquent version.) The success > of > >> > the > >> > Kickstarter project means that there are almost 5000 people with a > >> > financial > >> > interest in the project in addition to all of the ones who are just > >> > interested... that probably adds up to a lot of questions and general > >> > communication, and I think everybody is in agreement that what the > >> > Diaspora* > >> > guys need to do know is write some code. And now that they've got the > >> > money > >> > to hire a person for the summer to just respond to e-mails and > whatnot, > >> > they > >> > probably ought to. > >> > Just my two cents, don't want to step on your toes, SJ. > >> > Parker > >> > > >> > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Elizabeth Stark <[email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> What do you mean by "secretary?" > >> >> > >> >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> > >> >> wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>> You'll be glad that you did. > >> >>> > >> >>> SJ > >> >>> _______________________________________________ > >> >>> Discuss mailing list > >> >>> [email protected] > >> >>> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> Discuss mailing list > >> >> [email protected] > >> >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Discuss mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Discuss mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > > > -- > > Alex Kozak > > Program Assistant > > Creative Commons > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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