I love this... crowd-sourced management! On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Elizabeth Stark <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- Alex Kozak Program Assistant Creative Commons
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