In my experience, within any institution, the most effective approach is to collect the names and e-mail addresses of the chairs of the relevant departments (e.g., STEM departments, STEM research institutes/centers, etc).
Write the text of the event announcement e-mail, then above that put the following: --- CHAIRFIRSTNAME, Can you please forward the e-mail below to all the students, postdocs, faculty and staff in your department? YOURFIRSTNAME [Text of the e-mail] --- Note that it's MISSION CRITICAL that the chair's first name be at the top of each such e-mail. (But it doesn't matter whether you've ever met them.) In my experience, putting their first name at the top increases the probability of uptake by an order of magnitude. Not every chair will forward your e-mail, but many will. And all of them have mailing lists of everyone in their department, so it's easy for them. If you're willing to put in even more labor: You can collect the e-mail addresses of all the relevant faculty (and other PIs) in all the relevant departments, and send a similar e-mail to each of them (with their first name at the top), except ask them to forward it to everyone in their research group. That's much better, because some of their students will misinterpret the forward from their advisor as an order .... If you're interested in hitting other nearby institutions, use the same approach. It's amazing how willing chairs and faculty are to forward e-mails that you've asked nicely about. --- Henry Neeman ([email protected]) Director, OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER) Associate Professor, Gallogly College of Engineering Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Computer Science OU Information Technology The University of Oklahoma Engineering Lab 212, 200 Felgar St, Norman OK 73019 405-325-5386 (office), 405-325-5486 (fax), 405-245-3823 (cell), [email protected] (to e-mail me a text message) http://www.oscer.ou.edu/ ---------- On Tue, 13 Apr 2021, Annajiat Alim Rasel wrote: >Hi, > >In addition to advertising within home institution, recently, >I have seen institutions extending their invitation to the >neighboring universities and colleges as well. > >Best Regards, >Annajiat > >---------- > >On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 1:59 PM >Refilwe Kai <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi Everyone > >I would say advertising through university mailing lists. >Maybe email the admin personnel at the Universities and ask >them to share with their students. The students will also >share with their peers. > >Thank you >Refilwe Kai > >---------- > >On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 09:35, >Martin Dreyer <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi All, > >This is a little out of the normal discuss, but seeing that >we are in constant decline with workshop sign-ups it can >only mean that our advertising is not up to standard. > >What would you say is the best platform to advertise other >that the usual twitter, emails, etc. > >Regards >Martin ------------------------------------------ This list is for the purpose of general discussion about The Carpentries including community activities, upcoming events, and announcements. Some other lists you may also be interested in include discuss-hpc, discuss-r, and our local groups. Visit https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/ to learn more. All activity on this and other Carpentries spaces should abide by The Carpentries Code of Conduct found here: https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Taf0411ee6ad6f62c-M1b8e47e3c9514a32770261d0 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
