Posted on 12/06/2006 11:39:47 AM PST by Silly
please add to ping list
please add to ping list
sorry about #101
Please email details. I'm in midtown and I may be able to stop by.
Please email details. I'm in midtown and I may be able to stop by.
I would like to be added to the ping.
add to ping list, please :)
just discovered this. Pls. keep me posted.
Your attitude is wonderful, and we need more people like you -- so don't let me dampen your enthusiasm. But we already have FR to share news, and discuss things in a forum, so a Web page would only duplicate this.
If we need a place to list links to threads and pictures, we can do that on a Freeper's home page. We can even e-mail each other very easily here.
I'm not saying we should never use another forum, but -- as an administrator by trade -- I don't see any value that would outweigh the organizational inefficiencies it would cause -- there would then be two places where news must be posted, names collected, etc., and they would have to be linked. Outsiders could join the Yahoo forum whose identify as FReepers we could not verify and security would be undermined at events. (Unless we used freepmail to exchange info to verify. Which takes time and work but does not value.) Etc. etc. I have even had second thoughts about my MFHH blog.
Additionally, by keeping local chapters, clubs and events al on FR, we make it possible to learn from each others' models of organization and duplicate them.
One value, however, of having an outside site is attracting other people. Specifically -- when you start a blog, you join "the blogosphere". When blogs begin to link to each other, they can subscribe to each other and receive news feeds. Conservative local NYC blogs are numerous, and many of them build very large readerships over time. The number of politically active New Yorkers who blog together far outweigh the number of FReepers who meet and FReep regularly.
A robust New York chapter can occasionally form coalitions with other organizations to maximize turnout and attract the kind of media attention that will advance our causes and, at the same time, perhaps help build FR itself.
ping for later reference
Silly, I want in! I'm looking forward to meeting some fellow freepers. Currently, I am the only one I know.
Can you add me to the ping list. I work and live in Manhattan.
Thank you,
-Pat
Add me to the Ping list please! I am in NJ now, not Manhattan, but get to the city fairly often so if it works, it works!
thanks!
hrwr
Our next Happy Hour is this Tuesday, December 19, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. It will be in midtown near 53rd and 3rd, and you will be FReepmailed with the exact location.
If you can't attend, don't worry. After Christmas we have the New Years Party (Jan 1, 2:30 p.m.) and a mid-January Happy Hour planned.
Also, remember that this Thursday, December 14, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. is the meeting of the New York Young Republican Club. There will be a gathering afterwards, and many FReepers are sure to be there. Please plan to attend; details are on their Web site.
(Thanks to all you attended Monday night at the Old Town Bar (it's definitely on our list now)! It was a small gathering, but the food, drinks and company were great, and the conversation was extremely thoughtful.)
CT Freepers are working on a cocktail hour in the New Haven area. Here's my thread:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752731/posts
Sorry that I'll have to pass because Tuesday's my bowling night. But have a good one.
Just wondering: are there many Brooklyn Freepers out there?
Just tell me which way to aim my decoder ring and you can send me the instructions that way.
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