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a week mostly outside the office
Due to the weather turning colder and Bash being environmentalist we briefly decamped and worked from home. The office is in the process of getting some new environmental heaters installed, I assume they work more efficiantly than normal heaters although they somehow look rather retro!Alex
1. guess emailing has to come first as it has been the majority of my week, emailing to get people to sign up to our Global Youth Panel for the Copenhagen Conference and hopefully a good long time afterwards as well. Getting a similar level of results I got from emailing for the Census about eight months ago: 350-400 emails sent, 1 response \o/. This comes in several parts 1st finding organisations/email addresses then emailing them, and also emailing people who were already on our lists like the English Speaking Unions.
2. finally got my debate on negotiations at the end of the English Civil War up.
3. found some forums/groups for Ricky to post on
4. responded to an urgent call for debates for the JC!
5. Some people seem to have gotten it into their heads that it is acceptable to leave the Rapid Response Team, it is not, DESIST AT ONCE!
p.s. I am sure I must have done something on Monday, somehow with the last 3 days being different due to being out of the office I don’t have a clue what I did before!
Ricky
1. Emailed environmental forums and blogs in an attempt to allow us to post information about the GYP.
2. Trawled through facebook groups that concentrate on climate change issues and posted information on the GYP
3. Researched African climate change groups, but only found about three!
4. Responded to comments made in some forums in regards to the GYP, including trying to explain to someone why we are not similar to the Hitler Youth!
5. Retreated to the comfort of my own home to work on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday due to sub zero temperatures in the office.
Dave
It’s all about Copenhagen…
1) Blagged an invite to a talk about Google Wave by the very inventors of this wondrous product. Now if I can only execute the second part of my masterplan…
2) Tempted the Independent into a meeting about our GYP – or Global Youth Thermometer (geddit) as I’ve recently taken to calling it.
3) Found our ideal sponsor for the GYP – HSBC. Yes them, their focus on local knowledge and desire to understand different points of view = perfect match for us.
4) Developed a belief that this event could be the one that puts us on the map.
5) Loving the fact we’re now getting 1,000 visitors a day. And more importantly that a massive 170 different debates have been improved since the start of the month. Thank you Rapid Response Team. Thank you everyone who’s edited.