Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

PasturesNew

Lost my new site ... error 404. I was working on it earlier..... little online support guy says DNS propagation's probably not completed... so annoying. I was working on it earlier, so the fact DNS has changed for me seems bizarre.... so waiting.

I spent some time staring at the screen earlier. New, blank site. Couldn't for the life of me think what to put on, or how, or what plugins to get to achieve it. It's really something you can only do if you're "in the zone", so to speak... but staring at a blank screen and knowing there's nothing .... you have to now create it all from scratch, every stucture, every page, every post, every word .... was just too much.

I'll get inspiration at some point... and will do something then. It's best to work in big chunks of enthusiasm or it'll be rubbish anyway.

misskool

I need help with press releases and preparing a press pack any nice people know anyone in London that will donate their time for free?

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

I need help with press releases and preparing a press pack any nice people know anyone in London that will donate their time for free?

How exciting...is it for what you mentioned a while ago?

I'll ask about...not sure anyone I know in PR is very good or reliable though:o

vivatifosi

misskool wrote: »

I need help with press releases and preparing a press pack any nice people know anyone in London that will donate their time for free?

Good luck with the press release and press pack. If you get totally stuck there are websites showing how to do it yourself, though that's not perfect as ideally you want a PR contact listed on your release.

If you want something to get in the generalist press as opposed to something very specialised, then Flat Earth News talks about targeting PA news agency as once press releases get written up by them as news, then it gets adopted as mainstream news.

I hope this makes sense, I'm a bit tired and doubting it does!

vivatifosi

An update on the reading list. I've picked up and started reading this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Quantum-Physics-Your/dp/1851687793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288128439&sr=8-1

Having married someone with a science PhD, I thought after 20 years I should at least make an effort to try and understand some of it. I know that this will be a bit hard in places, but the fact the author addresses his comments on Quantum Physics to his dog seems to make it a lot easier to understand. I at least now know that wave particle duality exists, even if I don't fully get it. Missk Lydia and the big science brains might laugh at my selection but I will try and get to the end. Unlike Stephen Hawking, where I didn't get beyond the dust jacket.

PasturesNew

I'm not in London - and never seen one, never mind ever done one.

misskool

And don't suppose anyone knows a curator that will do something for slave wages and glory too? I think I might have bitten off more than I can chew....

PasturesNew

I don't even really know what a curator is/does... I'd have to Google it to be sure. "Some bloke to do with the church" is all I know at the moment.

misskool

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't even really know what a curator is/does... I'd have to Google it to be sure. "Some bloke to do with the church" is all I know at the moment.

Is a professional art organiser person. We've got a hodgepodge of people who need to be whipped into shape and following a deadline.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't even really know what a curator is/does... I'd have to Google it to be sure. "Some bloke to do with the church" is all I know at the moment.

I think that's a curate.