print pageI presented today at the Massachusetts Green/Rainbow Party Convention in Leominster. The workshop presentation went well and the table display got some traffic. Some potential investors and several signups.
I was not happy with my summary of the project in the morning plenary session. I need a pitch specifically geared toward social activists. That will have [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Green Rainbow Talk
November 23, 2008 – 11:44 pm
Workshop: Building a Local Economy that Works for All
November 21, 2008 – 1:02 pm
United for a Fair Economy and Class Action offered a two-day training yesterday and today. Common Good Finance co-sponsored it, along with a few other organizations, and a ten minute presentation on CGBs was a highlight of the morning today. Here’s a good blog article about the workshop. Maya kindly took some photos, so we [...]
Publicity
November 18, 2008 – 12:47 pm
173 press releases went out today, by email, for the December and January presentations. (46 bounced, so I have some work cut out.) Here it is, along with the rather hokey photo.
PSA / NEWS RELEASE 11/18/2008
For community calendar and local news
Contact: William Spademan
413-628-3336 (for information or interviews)
info@commongoodbank.com
Download in RTF format: commongoodbank.com/files/PR/talks/PR.rtf
Download graphic: commongoodbank.com/files/PR/talks/images
Photo caption: “Common [...]
Airport Meeting
November 17, 2008 – 12:14 am
I met today at the airport with Aubrey Keller and Gerald Higginbotham of East St. Louis, leaders of the Living Learning In Faith Everyday (LLIFE) movement there, working to empower America’s most disenfranchised communities. LLIFE needs a community-owned bank as part of its strategy. The common good bank project needs promotion. We talked about how [...]
Another New Page
November 16, 2008 – 9:35 am
Preparing to make three 10-minute-or-less presentations at the Massachusetts Green Convention next weekend, I’m thinking I might show half a dozen slides summarizing the common good bank plan, based on existing web pages and/or video segments. In particular, I want to show where CGBs fit in the landscape of alternative economic systems AND in the [...]
Partner PR
November 15, 2008 – 11:14 pm
So many places to send the publicity, in so many different forms. I settled on sending out the same emailable publicity to all the partner and supporting organizations, with links to extras like graphics and for-print newsletters and instructions for some likely modifications. In retrospect it may have been too much (and therefore confusing). At [...]
Events!
November 12, 2008 – 10:46 am
Our new Events page lists all the upcoming presentations for December and January, with links to downloadable posters. Email publicity will duplicate or refer to that page. I sent the completed publicity message off to Co-op Power (one of our partner organizations) to include in their e-newsletter going out tomorrow.
In the morning, while the sunlight [...]
Spectrum
November 10, 2008 – 10:23 pm
An important accomplishment today, a long time coming. I created a new page for the website, describing the spectrum of mainstream and alternative financial systems that have influenced the common good bank plan. Along with brief notes on what influence each system had on the CGB plan and how the CGB plan goes beyond.
I am [...]
Enthusiasm
November 7, 2008 – 5:06 pm
I have been told that I need to be more effusively enthusiastic about the common good bank project. So I am making an effort in that direction.
Once today when the phone rang and I answered (as usual) “Common Good Finance”, a computerized recording responded “Don’t be alarmed, but this is your final notice to get [...]
Gluttony
November 6, 2008 – 11:22 pm
Over the past few days I have scheduled 27 talks on the common good bank project in 26 towns throughout the Pioneer Valley in December (green), January (yellow) and March (blue). Usually four a week, with two weeks off at year end. Yikes.
It feels right though. I am hoping to average about 15 people per [...]