Talk with Owen Appleton

• providing content is key thing
• many deadlines
• writing or getting people to write

how to do
general communications
knowing subject and politics -- takes a while
highly politcized, groups competing for same pot of money
pick up this information from people
take people to have coffee -- get them to tell you what's going on
start with random people, then figure out who
show up to meetings, listening to people

get story ideas self, ask contacts what they're doing
get other communic to provide ideas and content
need to find other U.S. grid projects communications persons

reading online sources, magazines working out which
rss feeds, google news -- google alerts based on search terms,
press releases eurekalert: doe-funded portal for science press releases, eu equiv
need to sign up, create a watch list, get a feed straight from that (technorati)
other web sources, grid today, primeur (don't like), other grid news
most is very tech centered,
we look for scien use of grid,
biggest thing: showing up at US meetings, explain who I am to everyone "cold calling", then people start to know and call you.

for events
comm provides requirements, then there's host, and prof events planner

lots of types of events,

Danielle for isgtw:
Owen will provide 1 article a week
Anne to be responsible that Danielle gets 1 US article a week
look for international stories for third

books

buy Elements of Style

On writing well (Zizner)

Middle March, George Elliott

The register, sarcastic technologiy

technorati.com -- search engine for blogs

in his rss -- saved search, add subscription to each site, just go search
search the things in rss for terms like grid

inkycircus.com -- womens science blog

-- AnneHeavey - 06 Dec 2006