Petition Drive

Rough Draft, add suggestions on comments...

Our petition drive has started, here's a few things all circulators should know.

1. Get your petition from Lane, with a number.  We're tracking all petitions being circulated by a unique petition number.
2. DO NOT fill in the number of signatures, even when all 43 are collected, this number will be filled in  by a petition consultant who will verify signatures.
3. DO NOT sign your own petition, sign another circulators petition,
4. When you complete a petition, be sure to complete the last page (except for the number of signatures), return it to Lane and get a new numbered petition. 
5. For your first time circulating a petition, pair up with an experienced circulator so you can learn from them.
6. When at a public place its better to ask for signatures on the way out, rather than on the way in.
7. Ask if they are a Solon resident AND a registered voter, this is important.
8. Then ask them if they'd sign a petition regarding putting deer culling on the ballot so the people can decide, don't debate the issue with them, this will take time and won't address the main point of getting their signature.
9. If they want more information you can direct to the website solondeer.com, but tell them signing the petition puts it on the ballot for the citizens to decide, signing isn't saying they are for ot against it just lets the people decide.
10. If someone tries to engage you in a debate, politely refuse to debate them and walk away from them.

If you have any more questions, contact Lane.

Using Blogger

Anyone can comment on a post, click on "n comments" or the Blog post title and you can see the whole post with an option to comment at the end.  You can see various categories of posts by clicking on a Label in the sidebar (or at the bottom of a post).

To post to Blogger you must be invited as an author and be signed in.  If you are visiting the blog, you can click "Sign in" in the upper right corner.  If not, you can go to blogger.com and sign in.  When you sign in you will be taken to a "Dashboard" showing all the blogs you can be an author to.  It will also say "Create new blog", this is to define a completely new blog.

You can write a new post by clicking "New Post" next to the corresponding blog.  You can also click "Edit Posts" to see a list of all posts, you can only edit your own posts, you can view all of them.  You can also click on "View Blog" to see the whole blog.

From the Dashboard or from the Posting Tab there is another choice - Edit Posts.  This will give you a listing of each post.  You can change the number of Posts Per Page in the upper right corner.   For each post you can View it (or Edit it if you wrote it), you can see if it has comments.  On the sidebar you can filter by Label (for example Active, VerDraft, or another category.  You can search for posts in the top left search box, you can also select All or Published to undo a filter and see all posts (top center).  You can also see the post content (without its final formatting) quickly by clicking the sideways arrow next to a post, clicking the down arrow collapses the post again.

Any questions, post them here as a comment or send me an email.

Coexistence Pics

This is a real warm fuzzy. Do you think we might put these photos on our site or maybe just one subtitled

THUMPER AND BAMBI

IF THEY CAN DO IT WHY CAN'T WE?

A group of photos showing a rabbit and deer getting along...

[NOTE] Can convert to PDF and embed into Blog post...

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Another sequence of a very young fawn and a horse.

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Write some text on coexistence between wildlife and humans...
IF they can do it why can't we

Web Site Launch

We plan to launch launched our web presence to coincide with the Safety Mtg on Mar 9.

The SolonDeer Site will have to be in production status.

We'll want to gather and start building content for the SolonDeer Blog.

The design of the SolonDeer Blog needs some updates  is nearly complete.

Hopefully The SolonDeer Blog will be launched the same day.

The SolonDeerWork site will NOT be publicized (other than to those active in our group) I'd like to get people registered to Google Accounts and secure this site too, possibly immediately following the Mar 9th meeting.


UPDATE:

A new blog was built to contain letters to the editor, comments, emails to solondeer etc. Click here.

Contact

How should the public contact us?

They can email us at solondeer.com, this will be automatically forwarded to the SolonDeer Google Group.  Interesting comments will be posted to the SolonDeerNews Blog .  See the post Label NewsBlog for these topics.  


Need to determine if we want to show the google group publicly.

People can comment on the public blog.  We'll want them to comment on an appropriate post so we should have a post to catch related comments.

The google sites doesn't have much in the way of a commenting facility, we will have to point them to the public blog.  Added a contact page to main site to inform them of comment ability. REMOVED

Public group email.  If we can get people to join a google group they can communicate with each other and us via that platform.  People first have to get an ID registered to google (their own email), select the frequency (immediate, daily digest, or web only) and then they can post issues for discussions.  Popular discussions that we find useful may be copied to the public comment blog.  People can submit things to the Google Group without having a Google Acct by sending email to SolonDeer at gmail.com which has proxy authority and will post their comment.

Should we have a phone #?

Should we have an address?

Internal discussions

[REWRITE]This is separate from internal discussions of strategy or draft documents being developed.

For this we have a private facilities that we will want to secure to our working members so city hall and other advocates for killing aren't tipped off.  These are a  google group email and the working blog.  A working site could also be setup if it is helpful.

Press Release / Inquiry

How should these items be handled?  

Some sites require a press inquiry before using the site.

Web Services

Main Site - Highest level view for widest audience.

Articles (Public Blog) - Next level of detail for those interested in the cause.  This service has more ability to organize and find content.   (Add Search Widget)

News Blog - Selection of Letters to the Editor, comments, emails etc.  (Add Search Widget)

Work Blog (this site) - Private for working members only who will be actively reviewing and contributing content.  (Not Indexed, No Search Widget, can search from Dashboard).

ScribD - public document storage of PDFs

Versions

This post is mainly to reserve the version labels.

When someone is composing something for the public sites they should label it as Web and a draft version status. When the item is posted, the labels can be removed and changed to VerArchive.