[EdReform]

Thanks glock! It's been a team effort - I've really learned alot from you guys! With all the new FReepers and Lurkers coming to FR, I believe it important to keep those older articles, quotes, etc bumped.

You're right - we do have a good collection of Ads, quotes, and articles. Do you folks think we should start having a short planning meeting a week or so before FReepathons to discuss the organization of ads to be fed to the android? I ended up pulling some of my older ads because I wasn't sure if they were effective any more (and some of the links contained within them were outdated).

For example, I really liked the way justshe turned grammymoon's "What would you do Without Free Republic?" post into an ad. That was excellent! Those are the kinds of ideas we could talk about in a short on line meeting (or perhaps we could just post the ideas to a thread in the Ways and Means forum).

Anyway, I do want to rework some of my old material, and I'd appreciate your ideas!

[RottiBiz]

Great idea, Ed!

It would be very helpful if everyone could share their ideas on how we can make the FReepathons better.

It would also help if we had a few days notice before the fundraisers start.

[Grampa Dave]

A lot of your old material is still appropriate as we have so many new Freepers without the sense of history of why we have these Freepathons and what Free Republic does with these fund.

Of course those funds depend on the donations of Freepers.

JustShe's current ad insert was great, and I think that it really helped get us up and over the top.

Again we had a large number of new monthly donors sign up. This is so important to the future of Free Republic. The monthly donors provide a predictable and dependable base and a monthly flow of donations. Rotti Biz does such a great job updating and maintaining those lists.

MO1, gabz and the others who keep the Freepathon rolling on and alive did a great job.

A discussion a week or so before the next Freepathon would be good.