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Give visitors a Google Map

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The easier you make it for people to attend your events, the more people will join in. Use Google Maps to provide a great map, that may even include directions and a street-level view of the location.

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Want publicity? Be a blogger’s friend.

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Provide a ‘media kit’ that anyone can use, including text and photos, and maybe even audio and video.

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The tiara went to Brenda

Last night I went along to the 28th floor of Wellington’s Majestic Centre. It’s the tallest building in Wellington, and may not much impress readers from cities full of huge buildings. But then maybe they don’t live right on top of an earthquake faultline… I hadn’t been up there before and found the view most [...]

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In line for a tiara

I’m hoping for a tiara. Tomorrow night I’m joining 3 of Wellington’s finest bloggers to make predictions for 2009: Once again, Wellington’s top bloggers will gaze into the future and tell us what the big news will be in the next twelve months. The wisdom of their prognostications will astound you — or amuse you, [...]

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Webstock – it’s a passion

Mike Brown has written a great post called Webstock – the past and the future about the fabulous Webstock conference and minis: We ran it as volunteers, outside of work hours and, again and mostly, as fans. Around 500 attended in February [2008], and again it had a wonderful feeling of community and being part [...]

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Webstock 09 – in planning

Planning is underway for Webstock 09: We’ve booked the Town Hall venue in Wellington again for the week of 16th – 20th February 2009. After being part of the organising group for two glorious Webstock conferences, and the various Minis etc, I have recently, reluctantly withdrawn. There’s a huge amount of work in organising such [...]

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