Publicity Web

Publicity Committee Report

31 August 2015

Publicity Committee members: Alicia Weimer, Jeff Saxton, Jim Gartner, Jim King, Joanne Cronin,

Howard Goldman, John Lamb, Michael Mitsch, Nancy Kelner, Pam Robinson, Pat Brangs, Paul

Fisher, Loretta Brooks, Olga Alvarez, Eileen Napolitano, Susan Lembo and Jean Scully

Webmaster Report – John Lamb

What with UkeFest taking place and the Getaway fast approaching, the web team has

been busier than usual this month.

First off, we are sorry to report that Barbara Moo has opted to leave the team. We are all

sorry to see her go, but are sure that her volunteer efforts will continue to be appreciated

elsewhere within the Folk Project. We would be happy to receive another volunteer to

replace her if anyone out there is interested.

Another important bit of news is that we have switched registrars for our domain name,

folkproject.org. We had registered through Network Solutions Inc for many years. We

switched to DreamHost both out of gratitude for the free hosting service they give us and

because they are both less expensive and easier to deal with than NSI. As part of this

switch, our domain has been renewed through August of next year. If all goes well (and it

appears that it has) then there should be absolutely no impact of this change to the users

of the site, other than our saving $10 or $20 per year on domain registration. Special

thanks to George Otto for dealing with the NSI red tape that only he, as the original account

holder for the registration, could handle.

We have also been busy with the usual day-to-day updates on mailing lists, UkeFest and

Getaway pages and handling the odd (sometimes very odd) request that comes in from

time to time.

As always, thanks to Allan, Lori and Charles for all they do. Please send suggestions, questions and

reasonable requests to webmaster@folkproject.org.

Facebook Report – Pam Robinson

The FolkProject's FaceBook Page has 1204 people who like the page.

The FolkProject's FaceBook Group has 162 Members.

Twitter Report – Jean Scully

Pending.

Report From “The Chair” – Paul Fisher

Uke NJ 3! publicity has been very successful. Front page photo and full page article in TGIF

newspaper prior to the weekend. Online, Bill Nutt of the Daily Record did a long article in the

Entertainment section (http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/entertainment/events/2015/08/28/uke-newjersey-

festival-celebrates-ukulele/32473935/).

We have started to work with Deborah on the Halloween Show publicity.

Morris Tourism has repeated their request for audience and performer photos from Folk Project

events for their website. Who should we contact about this? The request mentions “Performers,

performers with a bit of audience and anything else that you think would best represent your

organization and talent.”

The Publicity Committee welcomes Olga Alvarez and Eileen Napolitano, who quickly responded to

our Newsletter front page plea for volunteers. Welcome!

Online

 NJSkylands gave a prominent notice of Uke NJ 3! in their Stringalongs section

(http://www.njskylands.com/this_week).

 Morristown Green gave prominent notice to Uke NJ 3!, listing all three events separately and

in detail and writing a long, inviting overview article that came out August 25.

 The Minstrel continues to be listed by the Morris County Tourism Bureau (The Folk Project is

a member).

 NJARTS.net continues to list most Minstrel events.

 NJ Arts Maven (njartsmaven.com) gave prominent space to Jim King's big press release on

Craig Bickhardt at The Minstrel. The have also published Jim's full write-up on Bob Malone.

 The Daily Record (Bill Nutt) did a big write-up on Dave Massengill on the day of the show.

 BOTMA (Bluegrass and Old Time Music Association) publicized Craig Bickhardt in their

newsletter.

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In Print

 Listings were seen in a number of local outlets, including Ledger Local.

Working with Performers and Their Publicists

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On the Radio

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Other Items

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