Publicize Your Meet Up Now!

Hello to All Iowa Meet Up Hosts and Dean Friends,
 
My action plan for this month is to get a notice in all our local publications about our May Meet Up. Perhaps this is old news to you, but previously we here were very busy with the actual campaign in Iowa; and then with the campaign elsewhere, and then after the campaign we got switched over to DFA 2.0 and now we are finally settling in as DFIA and the local Meet Up groups….anyway, we have never advertised our Meet Ups here before…or not in ALL the publications.

So, this is my suggestion to you to work on doing this in your local area, as well.  Simply create a report that will tell all — the Location, the Date and the Time, the name of your group, a short write-up about what you are doing (either what your group is about, i.e. DFIA or if you are having a special event or speaker, you can probably get more coverage) and finally a contact name and phone number. Call all your local publications and radio/TV stations and get the info on how and where to send this to them…and the time ahead that they require it for publication. (All publications here have given me an email address to send them my info.)

I am going to view some of the event listings online, and then compose what our D4QC Meet Up listing will say for this month. I hope that you will all be able to do the same, and that your Meet Ups continue to thrive. One way to help them to thrive is to advertise what we are doing, so we can gain even more supporters, because I am sure there are many out there who are unaware of our existence and certainly there should be some that would want to join us!

Also save to your computer copies of the flyer and signup sheet which Linda has created and posted at the BFIA site (right sidebar). My suggestion is that once you have the signup sheet made local to your site, and you make several copies….that you then attach an address label to the back side….then they can complete the form, fold it up and add a stamp and mail it to you. Also the flyer with the DFIA info on it…to that at the bottom, I have added the Meet Up info for our next local DFIA Meet Up….so they can join us there, as well. Always keep these with you, so that you can hand them out and get new members Everywhere You Go!

Also, I just had some custom-designed buttons made up for us.  You can see the designs on the right sidebar of Blog for Iowa.  Click on the link to go to the order website.  Tell Claire which custom button/s you want.  She already has the designs handy.  She also has another cute little button that says Vote for Democracy.

And don't forget, DFIA is changing our Meet Ups to the first Thursday after the first Wednesday of the month because of church night.  But this change will not be reflected on the national Meet Up site – all the more reason to spread the word!

Hope this finds everyone well and READY for the District Conventions on Saturday!

Karene 'kid' Nagel, DFIA Meet Up Coordinator