More great news! The Democracy Chronicles wants to write a series of
articles, first about the Declaration and the forum, and then a separate
article about each of the people who have responded to the interview
questions. See below for details:
On 4/14/2012 5:49 PM, Adrian Tawfik wrote:
Dear Mr. Fobes,
Thank you for your help so far, this has been a fascinating bunch of
readings from obviously well informed people. After much deliberation I
have decided that we will do a separate article for each of the experts
who answered the questions and present to the audience the complete
individual responses to the questions with only cosmetic changes.
The first article I will do is to introduce the group and the
Declaration. I have attached the first draft of this article to this
email in a Word document so that you can take a look and make any edits
or suggestions you might like. If you do make an edit, it would be best
if you could use the Track Changes function on Word so that I can see
what you have done. I'm not sure what you think about this, but I used
some of your wording to describe the Declaration in the second paragraph
and melded it with my own. I use a quote that is attributed to you later
on but I'm not sure if you are ok with me using some of your wording
within the article and giving you part of the byline.
Three or four days after we publish that first article, we can publish
your personal interview answers absolutely complete with a paragraph or
two introduction by me. We will release each article a few days to a
week after the previous one. I don't know what you think but I was
thinking of the following order for the articles with your article going
first and the rest in alphabetical order by last name.
We can come up with a good title and subtitle for the articles which for
the first article that is attached here will be something like "Election
Method Reform Experts Unite to Make Declaration". We need a subtitle of
similar length for each article. I also will have to pick out some free
pictures from Flickr to put with the articles.
Can you post in the forum that each person will have their own articles?
If they have more info they would like to send me please feel free to
give them my email. I will use as much information for each interview as
I have but I would love a way to communicate with them individually to
dig a little deeper. Is there a way I can contact them? Can I post
something in the forum?
Once again I must thank you for all your help. You have made these
articles possible. If you would like to talk over the phone, my number
is [...].
Sincerely,
Adrian
I removed Adrian's phone number, but I will facilitate a direct
connection with him for those of you who answered the questions. Plus
I'll invite him to join the forum.
I have not yet looked at the attachment; I'm expediting this message so
that you-all know what's going on.
Richard Fobes
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