Re: Broadband Champion

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 09:16:53AM -0000, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> Who was the Broadband champion who single handedly brought BB to a
neighbourhood - I have just heard from BT that if I can get enough people
interested they will turn it on : ) and I am out to steal as many good
ideas as I can!

There's a few of us on the list Tim, I sucessfully campaigned for High
Green in Sheffield, Mark McCall for his village in NI, and I also thing
Mark Harrison(?) was selected as a regional champion of some sort last year
...

Have a look at the BT website for Broadband campaigns, they printed and
delivered a load of leaflets for me, though I ended up delivery a load
myself as they missed half the village.

Also, join the BB Campaign forum on adslguide, loads of good ideas in
there.

Be prepared to  pound the streets, leave leaflets in doctors surgery's,
schools, shops, the local parish council building if you have one.

Try and get a pet councillor, they will promote it in their literature,
especially if it's coming up to election time, try and get one for the
party that usually wins in your area too :-)

Contact the local rag, get a story in there about what your trying to do.
Also contact the local radio station, though be prepared for some luddite
questions :-)

Try and get local business' involved, they can help financially, and if
they're large enough that could be a lot of the 250 or however many people
you need to register.

Hope that helps ...

-S


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