URL for this site is www.geocities.com/jewishgroups1
Duration: May 25-August 15; Birthright program: July 6-16
Priority:
*** Urgent (highest priority)
** Useful
* If you have time
Publicity, writing and journalism
Canned articles to give journalists, in Canadian French **
Getting those articles published throughout French-speaking Canada **
Translating website to Canadian French *
Worldwide publicity through any non-Internet venues **
Develop a worldwide listing of Jewish periodicals, with e-mail and snail mail addresses. Try British Council and American Cultural Center as well as on-line resources. **
Publicity via your own Canadian contacts (suggestions?) ***
Designing ads to publish in small publications: can these be inserted for free anyplace? *
Improving the publicity flyers www.geocities.com/jewishgroups1/8Posters.html (see existing Word posters) *
Searching and then writing to every Jewish website that has links pages; arranging for them to add link to Groups *
Publicity among worldwide Jewish groups (http://mishmash.virtualave.net/asia-china.html is an example) *
Publicity in French in local search engines in France, Canada, Belgium, Algeria, Morocco, and other French-speaking countries. **
Website design and improvement
Suggest changes to www.geocities.com/jewishgroups *
Create www.geocities.com/jewishgroups1 (funding, advertising, and sponsorship) ***
Suggest improvements to www.geocities.com/jewishlanguages *
Suggest improvements to http://www.e-srael.co.il/private/atidim/mada/1043/ *
Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Business plan: www.geocities.com/jewishgroups1/6BizPlan.html ***
Payment: How to set up groups so that we can receive payment ***
Setting up a non-profit organization ***
Turning the groups into a profitable enterprise **
Internet Publicity
Arrange for these groups to be listed in major publicity sites. They include the following:
IDG or ZDNet Website of the Day **
http://www.tipworld.com Cool Web Site of the Day **
List A Day. To Join List-A-Day List: mailto:[email protected]. To Submit a List For Review: mailto:[email protected] To Visit The Website: http://List-A-Day.com/ **
Your internship was based on the original group, Jewish Editing, as well as ELEAS. What can you suggest in order to promote and stimulate those projects?
Suggestions:
Subscribe to Jewish Editing and add data to the database at www.egroups.com/database/jewishediting
Create a links page for Jewish Editing (see www.geocities.com/jewishgroups/8LinkJSpecialNeeds.html as a sample page).
Do the same for Jewish Writing
Do the same for Bilingual Hebrew
Prepare a list (with addresses and URLs) of other large related discussion groups or websites.
Bureaucracy
Finding housing
Arranging for a computer
ISP connection
Jewish Agency and college bureaucratic forms and documentation
Other options
See what's available to help us at http://www.chateauversailles.fr **
See what French newspapers are at http://www.thepaperboy.com and whether we can publish French articles in them. **
