27 Oct
2011
27 Oct
'11
2:17 a.m.
Great ideas guys, I'll check out the CDSS information, most of this is stuff
we've heard before and holding a dance on campus is a bit more than we can
handle. the sites are great and so are the suggestions, but I really am
looking for a "hook" on a poster...like Michale Ludgate's "Support
Live
Music, Go Contra Dancing"...but I'm not sure that will work either. I've
seen "turn off the TV...dance!" A night of aerobics... and some other
things, that's really what I'm looking for. Trying to hold dances on campus
is great, but you need to have a person or group on campus that will sponsor
the dance etc, and that's almost like starting a whole new dance series
(dont' really have time or resources to do this), our dance is readily
excessible to almost all the campuses that have dorms, most of the colleges
are "comuter" colleges with day campuses and some of them (mostly in the
city or what is considered the city) have campus housing. All are on bus
routes and our dance is in the heart of the "cool" section of town. Most
young adults know about our area and the shops restaurants and bars.
So, as you see, it's not so much getting individuals to view contra dancing
or host a dance but just to get the option out there, visible, so that some
might try it and help spread the word.
And then, I need an artist to create the poster.....
Thanks again guys!
Mary Collins
QCCD
27 Oct
27 Oct
2:49 p.m.
How right you are, Mary! Our "messaging" could use a lot of work. We have a
fabulous overall message to deliver - community, civility, enjoyment,
exercise, friendliness - if all human endeavors had the mores and customs of
many of our dance organizations, we'd have a great world to live in. But
it's not a succinct marketing message.
Spider and others succeeded with her "Ants Pants Contradance - easy dancing
to live music" but I agree, it would be good to work a bit on finding a
clear, memorable, great tagline. At my company, Extra Mile Design, we often
work with a wonderful woman, Nancy Schwartz, who is a wizard at helping
people find that message. She runs a tagline contest every year. I think one
is coming up. We should, collectively, try to come up with a worthy entry.
Check it out:
http://nonprofitmarketingtraining.com/programs-workshops/tagline-focus-proj…
M
E
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Mary Collins <nativedae(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Great ideas guys, I'll check out the CDSS
information, most of this is
stuff
we've heard before and holding a dance on campus is a bit more than we can
handle. the sites are great and so are the suggestions, but I really am
looking for a "hook" on a poster...like Michale Ludgate's "Support
Live
Music, Go Contra Dancing"...but I'm not sure that will work either. I've
seen "turn off the TV...dance!" A night of aerobics... and some other
things, that's really what I'm looking for. Trying to hold dances on
campus
is great, but you need to have a person or group on campus that will
sponsor
the dance etc, and that's almost like starting a whole new dance series
(dont' really have time or resources to do this), our dance is readily
excessible to almost all the campuses that have dorms, most of the colleges
are "comuter" colleges with day campuses and some of them (mostly in the
city or what is considered the city) have campus housing. All are on bus
routes and our dance is in the heart of the "cool" section of town. Most
young adults know about our area and the shops restaurants and bars.
So, as you see, it's not so much getting individuals to view contra dancing
or host a dance but just to get the option out there, visible, so that some
might try it and help spread the word.
And then, I need an artist to create the poster.....
Thanks again guys!
Mary Collins
QCCD
_______________________________________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
--
As you set out for Ithaka, pray that your journey be long, full of
adventure, full of discovery...
May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, with what joy,
you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time.
~Constantine Cavafy, "Ithaka" 1911
3:16 p.m.
A tagline like, "Come dance with your friends" might work, especially if you can
put it on a poster that you give to a few of those college students to post on college
walls, and to act as contacts for spreading the word.
Martha Edwards remarked on 10/27/2011 10:49 AM:
How right you are, Mary! Our "messaging"
could use a lot of work. We have a
fabulous overall message to deliver - community, civility, enjoyment,
exercise, friendliness - if all human endeavors had the mores and customs of
many of our dance organizations, we'd have a great world to live in. But
it's not a succinct marketing message.
Spider and others succeeded with her "Ants Pants Contradance - easy dancing
to live music" but I agree, it would be good to work a bit on finding a
clear, memorable, great tagline. At my company, Extra Mile Design, we often
work with a wonderful woman, Nancy Schwartz, who is a wizard at helping
people find that message. She runs a tagline contest every year. I think one
is coming up. We should, collectively, try to come up with a worthy entry.
Check it out:
http://nonprofitmarketingtraining.com/programs-workshops/tagline-focus-proj…
M
E
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Mary Collins<nativedae(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Great ideas guys, I'll check out the CDSS
information, most of this is
stuff
we've heard before and holding a dance on campus is a bit more than we can
handle. the sites are great and so are the suggestions, but I really am
looking for a "hook" on a poster...like Michale Ludgate's "Support
Live
Music, Go Contra Dancing"...but I'm not sure that will work either. I've
seen "turn off the TV...dance!" A night of aerobics... and some other
things, that's really what I'm looking for. Trying to hold dances on
campus
is great, but you need to have a person or group on campus that will
sponsor
the dance etc, and that's almost like starting a whole new dance series
(dont' really have time or resources to do this), our dance is readily
excessible to almost all the campuses that have dorms, most of the colleges
are "comuter" colleges with day campuses and some of them (mostly in the
city or what is considered the city) have campus housing. All are on bus
routes and our dance is in the heart of the "cool" section of town. Most
young adults know about our area and the shops restaurants and bars.
So, as you see, it's not so much getting individuals to view contra dancing
or host a dance but just to get the option out there, visible, so that some
might try it and help spread the word.
And then, I need an artist to create the poster.....
Thanks again guys!
Mary Collins
QCCD
_______________________________________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
5:39 p.m.
Great idea Martha! I like it. I need to revisit the Ants/Pants thing. I
find as a "non-traditional" student that most of the others in my classes,
while not all 18 but varying ages, greet the word dance with raised eyebrow
and glances askew. That word alone seems to be a bit of a "turn off", that
and my age. I think they think dancing with the stars and the like. So
while I am open to all suggestions, we all need to keep in mind, what works
for one community may not necessarily work for another. I actually attend
classes with the sister of one of our premier college dancer promoters (she
attends another college) but the one at my school works nights that we have
dances and so cannot bring friends. I will be checking out our "social
club" status, have not seen anything listed that suggests that we even HAVE
such a group.
Thanks guys, keep the ideas flowing and let's do as Martha suggests and come
up with a great tag line...one that might work for all dance forms, Irish,
Scottish, English AND of course our fav...Contra!
Mary
QCCD
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Richard Hart <rich(a)harts.mv.com> wrote:
A tagline like, "Come dance with your
friends" might work, especially if
you can put it on a poster that you give to a few of those college students
to post on college walls, and to act as contacts for spreading the word.
Martha Edwards remarked on 10/27/2011 10:49 AM:
How right you are, Mary! Our "messaging" could use a lot of work. We have
a
fabulous overall message to deliver - community, civility, enjoyment,
exercise, friendliness - if all human endeavors had the mores and customs
of
many of our dance organizations, we'd have a great world to live in. But
it's not a succinct marketing message.
Spider and others succeeded with her "Ants Pants Contradance - easy
dancing
to live music" but I agree, it would be good to work a bit on finding a
clear, memorable, great tagline. At my company, Extra Mile Design, we
often
work with a wonderful woman, Nancy Schwartz, who is a wizard at helping
people find that message. She runs a tagline contest every year. I think
one
is coming up. We should, collectively, try to come up with a worthy entry.
Check it out:
http://**nonprofitmarketingtraining.**com/programs-workshops/**
tagline-focus-project/<http://nonprofitmarketingtraining.com/programs-wo…
M
E
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Mary Collins<nativedae(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Great ideas guys, I'll check out the CDSS information, most of this is
______________________________**_________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<http://www.shared…
stuff
we've heard before and holding a dance on campus is a bit more than we
can
handle. the sites are great and so are the suggestions, but I really am
looking for a "hook" on a poster...like Michale Ludgate's "Support
Live
Music, Go Contra Dancing"...but I'm not sure that will work either. I've
seen "turn off the TV...dance!" A night of aerobics... and some other
things, that's really what I'm looking for. Trying to hold dances on
campus
is great, but you need to have a person or group on campus that will
sponsor
the dance etc, and that's almost like starting a whole new dance series
(dont' really have time or resources to do this), our dance is readily
excessible to almost all the campuses that have dorms, most of the
colleges
are "comuter" colleges with day campuses and some of them (mostly in the
city or what is considered the city) have campus housing. All are on bus
routes and our dance is in the heart of the "cool" section of town. Most
young adults know about our area and the shops restaurants and bars.
So, as you see, it's not so much getting individuals to view contra
dancing
or host a dance but just to get the option out there, visible, so that
some
might try it and help spread the word.
And then, I need an artist to create the poster.....
Thanks again guys!
Mary Collins
QCCD
______________________________**_________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<http://www.shared…
5:44 p.m.
I wonder whether in anybody's are the "Meetup" system is active - and if so,
is
your group listed in it? It seems to bring the occasional newcomer to some of
Philly's many dance venues.
Hanny
5:55 p.m.
check out www.cfootmad.org
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:44:56 -0400
From: kyrmyt(a)cavtel.net
To: callers(a)sharedweight.net
Subject: Re: [Callers] (no subject)
I wonder whether in anybody's are the "Meetup" system is active - and if
so, is
your group listed in it? It seems to bring the occasional newcomer to some of
Philly's many dance venues.
Hanny
_______________________________________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
28 Oct
28 Oct
12:59 a.m.
Picture - four hands joined in a star (contra-style, or English hands-across
style, or even "clump" style) - Tagline - Come dancing with the Stars!
M
E
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Mary Collins <nativedae(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Great idea Martha! I like it. I need to revisit the
Ants/Pants thing. I
find as a "non-traditional" student that most of the others in my classes,
while not all 18 but varying ages, greet the word dance with raised eyebrow
and glances askew. That word alone seems to be a bit of a "turn off", that
and my age. I think they think dancing with the stars and the like. So
while I am open to all suggestions, we all need to keep in mind, what works
for one community may not necessarily work for another. I actually attend
classes with the sister of one of our premier college dancer promoters (she
attends another college) but the one at my school works nights that we have
dances and so cannot bring friends. I will be checking out our "social
club" status, have not seen anything listed that suggests that we even HAVE
such a group.
Thanks guys, keep the ideas flowing and let's do as Martha suggests and
come
up with a great tag line...one that might work for all dance forms, Irish,
Scottish, English AND of course our fav...Contra!
Mary
QCCD
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Richard Hart <rich(a)harts.mv.com> wrote:
>
Check it out:
> http://**nonprofitmarketingtraining.**com/programs-workshops/**
> tagline-focus-project/<
http://nonprofitmarketingtraining.com/programs-workshops/tagline-focus-proj…
______________________________**_________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers>
_______________________________________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
--
As you set out for Ithaka, pray that your journey be long, full of
adventure, full of discovery...
May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, with what joy,
you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time.
~Constantine Cavafy, "Ithaka" 1911
A tagline like, "Come dance with your
friends" might work, especially if
you can put it on a poster that you give to a few of those college
students
to post on college walls, and to act as contacts
for spreading the word.
Martha Edwards remarked on 10/27/2011 10:49 AM:
How right you are, Mary! Our "messaging" could use a lot of work. We
have
> a
> fabulous overall message to deliver - community, civility, enjoyment,
> exercise, friendliness - if all human endeavors had the mores and
customs
> of
> many of our dance organizations, we'd have a great world to live in. But
> it's not a succinct marketing message.
>
> Spider and others succeeded with her "Ants Pants Contradance - easy
> dancing
> to live music" but I agree, it would be good to work a bit on finding a
> clear, memorable, great tagline. At my company, Extra Mile Design, we
> often
> work with a wonderful woman, Nancy Schwartz, who is a wizard at helping
> people find that message. She runs a tagline contest every year. I think
> one
> is coming up. We should, collectively, try to come up with a worthy
entry.
>
> M
> E
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Mary Collins<nativedae(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Great ideas guys, I'll check out the CDSS information, most of this is
>> stuff
>> we've heard before and holding a dance on campus is a bit more than we
>> can
>> handle. the sites are great and so are the suggestions, but I really
am
>> looking for a "hook" on a
poster...like Michale Ludgate's "Support Live
>> Music, Go Contra Dancing"...but I'm not sure that will work either.
I've
>> seen "turn off the TV...dance!"
A night of aerobics... and some other
>> things, that's really what I'm looking for. Trying to hold dances on
>> campus
>> is great, but you need to have a person or group on campus that will
>> sponsor
>> the dance etc, and that's almost like starting a whole new dance
series
>> (dont' really have time or resources
to do this), our dance is readily
>> excessible to almost all the campuses that have dorms, most of the
>> colleges
>> are "comuter" colleges with day campuses and some of them (mostly in
the
>> city or what is considered the city) have
campus housing. All are on
bus
>> routes and our dance is in the heart of
the "cool" section of town.
Most
>> young adults know about our area and the
shops restaurants and bars.
>>
>> So, as you see, it's not so much getting individuals to view contra
>> dancing
>> or host a dance but just to get the option out there, visible, so that
>> some
>> might try it and help spread the word.
>>
>> And then, I need an artist to create the poster.....
>>
>> Thanks again guys!
>>
>> Mary Collins
>> QCCD
>> ______________________________**_________________
>> Callers mailing list
>> Callers(a)sharedweight.net
>> http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers>
1:21 a.m.
M --
Picture - four hands joined in a star (contra-style,
or English hands-across
style, or even "clump" style) - Tagline - Come dancing with the Stars!
Sorry to be a downer, but I think that'd be completely incoherent to anybody
who hadn't been to a contra, english, or square dance before. I love the
four-hands image, but it doesn't suggest a "star" unless you know it's a
star,
and historically it's been called things like "hands across",
"wheel", and
"mill" or "moulinet" (because it's kind of like the four sails of
a windmill,
I think).
-- Alan
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Mary Collins
<nativedae(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Great idea Martha! I like it. I need to revisit
the Ants/Pants thing. I
> find as a "non-traditional" student that most of the others in my
classes,
> while not all 18 but varying ages, greet the word dance with raised eyebrow
> and glances askew. That word alone seems to be a bit of a "turn off",
that
> and my age. I think they think dancing with the stars and the like. So
> while I am open to all suggestions, we all need to keep in mind, what works
> for one community may not necessarily work for another. I actually attend
> classes with the sister of one of our premier college dancer promoters (she
> attends another college) but the one at my school works nights that we have
> dances and so cannot bring friends. I will be checking out our "social
> club" status, have not seen anything listed that suggests that we even HAVE
> such a group.
>
> Thanks guys, keep the ideas flowing and let's do as Martha suggests and
> come
> up with a great tag line...one that might work for all dance forms, Irish,
> Scottish, English AND of course our fav...Contra!
>
> Mary
> QCCD
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Richard Hart <rich(a)harts.mv.com> wrote:
>
> > A tagline like, "Come dance with your friends" might work, especially
if
> > you can put it on a poster that you give to a few of those college
> students
> > to post on college walls, and to act as contacts for spreading the word.
> >
> >
> > Martha Edwards remarked on 10/27/2011 10:49 AM:
> >
> > How right you are, Mary! Our "messaging" could use a lot of work.
We
> have
> >> a
> >> fabulous overall message to deliver - community, civility, enjoyment,
> >> exercise, friendliness - if all human endeavors had the mores and
> customs
> >> of
> >> many of our dance organizations, we'd have a great world to live in.
But
> >> it's not a succinct marketing message.
> >>
> >> Spider and others succeeded with her "Ants Pants Contradance - easy
> >> dancing
> >> to live music" but I agree, it would be good to work a bit on finding
a
> >> clear, memorable, great tagline. At my company, Extra Mile Design, we
> >> often
> >> work with a wonderful woman, Nancy Schwartz, who is a wizard at helping
> >> people find that message. She runs a tagline contest every year. I think
> >> one
> >> is coming up. We should, collectively, try to come up with a worthy
> entry.
> >>
> >> Check it out:
> >> http://**nonprofitmarketingtraining.**com/programs-workshops/**
> >> tagline-focus-project/<
> http://nonprofitmarketingtraining.com/programs-workshops/tagline-focus-proj…
> >
> >>
> >> M
> >> E
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Mary Collins<nativedae(a)gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Great ideas guys, I'll check out the CDSS information, most of this
is
> >>> stuff
> >>> we've heard before and holding a dance on campus is a bit more than
we
> >>> can
> >>> handle. the sites are great and so are the suggestions, but I really
> am
> >>> looking for a "hook" on a poster...like Michale Ludgate's
"Support Live
> >>> Music, Go Contra Dancing"...but I'm not sure that will work
either.
> I've
> >>> seen "turn off the TV...dance!" A night of aerobics... and
some other
> >>> things, that's really what I'm looking for. Trying to hold
dances on
> >>> campus
> >>> is great, but you need to have a person or group on campus that will
> >>> sponsor
> >>> the dance etc, and that's almost like starting a whole new dance
> series
> >>> (dont' really have time or resources to do this), our dance is
readily
> >>> excessible to almost all the campuses that have dorms, most of the
> >>> colleges
> >>> are "comuter" colleges with day campuses and some of them
(mostly in
> the
> >>> city or what is considered the city) have campus housing. All are on
> bus
> >>> routes and our dance is in the heart of the "cool" section of
town.
> Most
> >>> young adults know about our area and the shops restaurants and bars.
> >>>
> >>> So, as you see, it's not so much getting individuals to view
contra
> >>> dancing
> >>> or host a dance but just to get the option out there, visible, so that
> >>> some
> >>> might try it and help spread the word.
> >>>
> >>> And then, I need an artist to create the poster.....
> >>>
> >>> Thanks again guys!
> >>>
> >>> Mary Collins
> >>> QCCD
> >>> ______________________________**_________________
> >>> Callers mailing list
> >>> Callers(a)sharedweight.net
> >>> http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<
> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > ______________________________**_________________
> > Callers mailing list
> > Callers(a)sharedweight.net
> > http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<
> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers>
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Callers mailing list
> Callers(a)sharedweight.net
> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
>
--
As you set out for Ithaka, pray that your journey be long, full of
adventure, full of discovery...
May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, with what joy,
you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time.
~Constantine Cavafy, "Ithaka" 1911
_______________________________________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
--
===============================================================================
Alan Winston --- WINSTON(a)SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056
Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025
===============================================================================
1:41 a.m.
True, how true!
Yet something doesn't have to be clear to be intriguing...
I'm sure we can come up with something much better. If what I suggested is
kind of dumb, you are all empowered to come up with something equally dumb.
Perhaps out of our collective silly ideas that we think will never work we
may find something that will...
M
E
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing <
winston(a)slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
M --
--
As you set out for Ithaka, pray that your journey be long, full of
adventure, full of discovery...
May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, with what joy,
you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time.
~Constantine Cavafy, "Ithaka" 1911
Picture - four hands joined in a star
(contra-style, or English
hands-across
style, or even "clump" style) - Tagline
- Come dancing with the Stars!
Sorry to be a downer, but I think that'd be completely incoherent to
anybody
who hadn't been to a contra, english, or square dance before. I love the
four-hands image, but it doesn't suggest a "star" unless you know it's
a
star,
and historically it's been called things like "hands across",
"wheel", and
"mill" or "moulinet" (because it's kind of like the four sails of
a
windmill,
I think).
-- Alan
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Mary Collins
<nativedae(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Great idea Martha! I like it. I need to
revisit the Ants/Pants thing.
I
> find as a "non-traditional"
student that most of the others in my
classes,
> while not all 18 but varying ages, greet the
word dance with raised
eyebrow
> and glances askew. That word alone seems to
be a bit of a "turn off",
that
> and my age. I think they think dancing with
the stars and the like. So
> while I am open to all suggestions, we all need to keep in mind, what
works
> for one community may not necessarily work
for another. I actually
attend
> classes with the sister of one of our
premier college dancer promoters
(she
> attends another college) but the one at my
school works nights that we
have
> dances and so cannot bring friends. I will
be checking out our "social
> club" status, have not seen anything listed that suggests that we even
HAVE
> such a group.
>
> Thanks guys, keep the ideas flowing and let's do as Martha suggests and
> come
> up with a great tag line...one that might work for all dance forms,
Irish,
> Scottish, English AND of course our
fav...Contra!
>
> Mary
> QCCD
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Richard Hart <rich(a)harts.mv.com>
wrote:
>
> > A tagline like, "Come dance with your friends" might work, especially
if
> > you can put it on a poster that you
give to a few of those college
> students
> > to post on college walls, and to act as contacts for spreading the
word.
> >
> >
> > Martha Edwards remarked on 10/27/2011 10:49 AM:
> >
> > How right you are, Mary! Our "messaging" could use a lot of work.
We
> have
> >> a
> >> fabulous overall message to deliver - community, civility,
enjoyment,
> >> exercise, friendliness - if all
human endeavors had the mores and
> customs
> >> of
> >> many of our dance organizations, we'd have a great world to live in.
But
> >> it's not a succinct marketing
message.
> >>
> >> Spider and others succeeded with her "Ants Pants Contradance - easy
> >> dancing
> >> to live music" but I agree, it would be good to work a bit on
finding a
> >> clear, memorable, great tagline. At
my company, Extra Mile Design,
we
> >> often
> >> work with a wonderful woman, Nancy Schwartz, who is a wizard at
helping
> >> people find that message. She runs
a tagline contest every year. I
think
> >> one
> >> is coming up. We should, collectively, try to come up with a worthy
> entry.
> >>
> >> Check it out:
> >> http://**nonprofitmarketingtraining.**com/programs-workshops/**
> >> tagline-focus-project/<
>
http://nonprofitmarketingtraining.com/programs-workshops/tagline-focus-proj…
> >
> >>
> >> M
> >> E
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Mary Collins<nativedae(a)gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Great ideas guys, I'll check out the CDSS information, most of this
is
> >>> stuff
> >>> we've heard before and holding a dance on campus is a bit more than
we
> >>> can
> >>> handle. the sites are great and so are the suggestions, but I
really
> am
> >>> looking for a "hook" on a poster...like Michale Ludgate's
"Support
Live
> >>> Music, Go Contra
Dancing"...but I'm not sure that will work either.
> I've
> >>> seen "turn off the TV...dance!" A night of aerobics... and
some
other
> >>> things, that's really what
I'm looking for. Trying to hold dances
on
> >>> campus
> >>> is great, but you need to have a person or group on campus that
will
> >>> sponsor
> >>> the dance etc, and that's almost like starting a whole new dance
> series
> >>> (dont' really have time or resources to do this), our dance is
readily
> >>> excessible to almost all the
campuses that have dorms, most of the
> >>> colleges
> >>> are "comuter" colleges with day campuses and some of them
(mostly
in
> the
> >>> city or what is considered the city) have campus housing. All are
on
> bus
> >>> routes and our dance is in the heart of the "cool" section of
town.
> Most
> >>> young adults know about our area and the shops restaurants and
bars.
> >>>
> >>> So, as you see, it's not so much getting individuals to view
contra
> >>> dancing
> >>> or host a dance but just to get the option out there, visible, so
that
> >>> some
> >>> might try it and help spread the word.
> >>>
> >>> And then, I need an artist to create the poster.....
> >>>
> >>> Thanks again guys!
> >>>
> >>> Mary Collins
> >>> QCCD
> >>> ______________________________**_________________
> >>> Callers mailing list
> >>> Callers(a)sharedweight.net
> >>> http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<
> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > ______________________________**_________________
> > Callers mailing list
> > Callers(a)sharedweight.net
> > http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<
> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers>
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Callers mailing list
> Callers(a)sharedweight.net
> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
>
--
As you set out for Ithaka, pray that your journey be long, full of
adventure, full of discovery...
May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, with what
joy,
you enter harbors you're seeing for the first
time.
~Constantine Cavafy, "Ithaka" 1911
_______________________________________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
--
===============================================================================
Alan Winston --- WINSTON(a)SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone:
650/926-3056
Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA
94025
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
1:59 a.m.
On 10/27/2011 8:41 PM, Martha Edwards wrote:
True, how true!
Yet something doesn't have to be clear to be intriguing...
I'm sure we can come up with something much better. If what I suggested is
kind of dumb, you are all empowered to come up with something equally dumb.
Perhaps out of our collective silly ideas that we think will never work we
may find something that will...
I like "Dance outside the box", perhaps with an image of the feet
pattern of the box step. However, I think that will also be
incomprehensible to people who aren't already familiar with dancing.
Jonathan
-----
Jonathan Sivier
Caller of Contra, English and Early American Dances
jsivier AT illinois DOT edu
Dance Page: http://www.sivier.me/dance_leader.html
-----
Q: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
A: It depends on what dance you call!
6:21 a.m.
I like the "dancing with the stars" idea. Perhaps the whole point is to *
not* make sense.
I'll just throw out this one:
*Contras
*Extreme Social Dancing
(It;s not for everyone.)
I like the "extreme" part. Kind of gives it an edge.
- Greg McKenzie
***********
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Martha Edwards <meedwards(a)westendweb.com>wrote;wrote:
True, how true!
Yet something doesn't have to be clear to be intriguing...
I'm sure we can come up with something much better. If what I suggested is
kind of dumb, you are all empowered to come up with something equally dumb.
Perhaps out of our collective silly ideas that we think will never work we
may find something that will...
M
E
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing <
winston(a)slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
promoters
especially
worthy
http://nonprofitmarketingtraining.com/programs-workshops/tagline-focus-proj…
this
dances
are
contra
===============================================================================
M --
and
Picture - four hands joined in a star
(contra-style, or English
hands-across
style, or even "clump" style) - Tagline
- Come dancing with the Stars!
Sorry to be a downer, but I think that'd be completely incoherent to
anybody
who hadn't been to a contra, english, or square dance before. I love the
four-hands image, but it doesn't suggest a "star" unless you know it's
a
star,
and historically it's been called things like "hands across",
"wheel", "mill" or "moulinet" (because
it's kind of like the four sails of a
windmill,
I think).
-- Alan
thing.
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Mary Collins
<nativedae(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Great idea Martha! I like it. I need to revisit the Ants/Pants I
off",
> find as a "non-traditional"
student that most of the others in my
classes,
> while not all 18 but varying ages, greet the
word dance with raised
eyebrow
> > and glances askew. That word alone seems to be a bit of a "turn that
> > and my age. I think they think dancing with the stars and the like.
So
>
while I am open to all suggestions, we all need to keep in mind, what
works
> for one community may not necessarily work
for another. I actually
attend
> > classes with the sister of one of our premier college dancer (she
> > attends another college) but the one at my school works nights that
we
have
> > dances and so cannot bring friends. I will be checking out our
"social
> > club" status, have not seen
anything listed that suggests that we
even
HAVE
> > such a group.
> >
> > Thanks guys, keep the ideas flowing and let's do as Martha suggests
and
>
come
> up with a great tag line...one that might work for all dance forms,
Irish,
> Scottish, English AND of course our
fav...Contra!
>
> Mary
> QCCD
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Richard Hart <rich(a)harts.mv.com>
wrote:
> >
> > > A tagline like, "Come dance with your friends" might work,
if
in.
> > you can put it on a poster that you
give to a few of those college
> students
> > to post on college walls, and to act as contacts for spreading the
word.
> >
> >
> > Martha Edwards remarked on 10/27/2011 10:49 AM:
> >
> > How right you are, Mary! Our "messaging" could use a lot of work.
We
> have
> >> a
> >> fabulous overall message to deliver - community, civility,
enjoyment,
> > >> exercise, friendliness - if all human endeavors had the mores and
> > customs
> > >> of
> > >> many of our dance organizations, we'd have a great world to live
But
> > >> it's not a succinct marketing message.
> > >>
> > >> Spider and others succeeded with her "Ants Pants Contradance -
easy
>
>> dancing
> >> to live music" but I agree, it would be good to work a bit on
finding a
> >> clear, memorable, great tagline. At
my company, Extra Mile Design,
we
> >> often
> >> work with a wonderful woman, Nancy Schwartz, who is a wizard at
helping
> >> people find that message. She runs
a tagline contest every year. I
think
> > >> one
> > >> is coming up. We should, collectively, try to come up with a >
entry.
> >>
> >> Check it out:
> >> http://**nonprofitmarketingtraining.**com/programs-workshops/**
> >> tagline-focus-project/<
>
>
>
> >>
> >> M
> >> E
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Mary Collins<nativedae(a)gmail.com
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Great ideas guys, I'll check out the CDSS information, most of
is
> > >>> stuff
> > >>> we've heard before and holding a dance on campus is a bit more
than
we
"Support
> >>> can
> >>> handle. the sites are great and so are the suggestions, but I
really
> > am
> > >>> looking for a "hook" on a poster...like Michale
Ludgate's Live
> > >>> Music, Go Contra Dancing"...but I'm not sure that will
work
either.
>
I've
> >>> seen "turn off the TV...dance!" A night of aerobics... and
some
other
> > >>> things, that's really what I'm looking for. Trying to
hold on
the
> >>> campus
> >>> is great, but you need to have a person or group on campus that
will
> >>> sponsor
> >>> the dance etc, and that's almost like starting a whole new dance
> series
> >>> (dont' really have time or resources to do this), our dance is
readily
> > >>> excessible to almost all the campuses that have dorms, most of
>
>>> colleges
> >>> are "comuter" colleges with day campuses and some of them
(mostly
in
> > the
> > >>> city or what is considered the city) have campus housing. All
on
> > bus
> > >>> routes and our dance is in the heart of the "cool"
section of
town.
>
Most
> >>> young adults know about our area and the shops restaurants and
bars.
> > >>>
> > >>> So, as you see, it's not so much getting individuals to view
>
>>> dancing
> >>> or host a dance but just to get the option out there, visible, so
that
> >>> some
> >>> might try it and help spread the word.
> >>>
> >>> And then, I need an artist to create the poster.....
> >>>
> >>> Thanks again guys!
> >>>
> >>> Mary Collins
> >>> QCCD
> >>> ______________________________**_________________
> >>> Callers mailing list
> >>> Callers(a)sharedweight.net
> >>> http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<
> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > ______________________________**_________________
> > Callers mailing list
> > Callers(a)sharedweight.net
> > http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<
> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers>
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Callers mailing list
> Callers(a)sharedweight.net
> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
>
--
As you set out for Ithaka, pray that your journey be long, full of
adventure, full of discovery...
May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, with what
joy,
you enter harbors you're seeing for the first
time.
~Constantine Cavafy, "Ithaka" 1911
_______________________________________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
--
Alan Winston --- WINSTON(a)SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone:
650/926-3056
Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA
94025
===============================================================================
_______________________________________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
--
As you set out for Ithaka, pray that your journey be long, full of
adventure, full of discovery...
May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, with what joy,
you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time.
~Constantine Cavafy, "Ithaka" 1911
_______________________________________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
29 Oct
29 Oct
12:38 a.m.
martha...I like it!
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Martha Edwards <meedwards(a)westendweb.com>wrote;wrote:
Picture - four hands joined in a star (contra-style,
or English
hands-across
style, or even "clump" style) - Tagline - Come dancing with the Stars!
M
E
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Mary Collins <nativedae(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
word.
But
http://nonprofitmarketingtraining.com/programs-workshops/tagline-focus-proj…
Live
other
readily
that
>
______________________________**_________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers>
_______________________________________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
--
As you set out for Ithaka, pray that your journey be long, full of
adventure, full of discovery...
May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, with what joy,
you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time.
~Constantine Cavafy, "Ithaka" 1911
_______________________________________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
Great idea Martha! I like it. I need to revisit
the Ants/Pants thing.
I
find as a "non-traditional" student
that most of the others in my
classes,
while not all 18 but varying ages, greet the word
dance with raised
eyebrow
and glances askew. That word alone seems to be a
bit of a "turn off",
that
and my age. I think they think dancing with the
stars and the like. So
while I am open to all suggestions, we all need to keep in mind, what
works
for one community may not necessarily work for
another. I actually
attend
classes with the sister of one of our premier
college dancer promoters
(she
attends another college) but the one at my school
works nights that we
have
dances and so cannot bring friends. I will be
checking out our "social
club" status, have not seen anything listed that suggests that we even
HAVE
such a group.
Thanks guys, keep the ideas flowing and let's do as Martha suggests and
come
up with a great tag line...one that might work for all dance forms,
Irish,
Scottish, English AND of course our
fav...Contra!
Mary
QCCD
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Richard Hart <rich(a)harts.mv.com>
wrote:
> A tagline like, "Come dance with your friends" might work, especially
if
you can
put it on a poster that you give to a few of those college
students
> to post on college walls, and to act as contacts for spreading the
Martha Edwards remarked on 10/27/2011 10:49 AM:
How right you are, Mary! Our "messaging" could use a lot of work. We
have
> a
> fabulous overall message to deliver - community, civility, enjoyment,
> exercise, friendliness - if all human endeavors had the mores and
customs
>> of
>> many of our dance organizations, we'd have a great world to live in. >> it's not a succinct marketing
message.
>>
>> Spider and others succeeded with her "Ants Pants Contradance - easy
>> dancing
>> to live music" but I agree, it would be good to work a bit on finding
a
>> clear, memorable, great tagline. At my
company, Extra Mile Design, we
>> often
>> work with a wonderful woman, Nancy Schwartz, who is a wizard at
helping
>> people find that message. She runs a
tagline contest every year. I
think
> one
> is coming up. We should, collectively, try to come up with a worthy
entry.
>
> Check it out:
> http://**nonprofitmarketingtraining.**com/programs-workshops/**
> tagline-focus-project/<
>
>>
>> M
>> E
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Mary Collins<nativedae(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Great ideas guys, I'll check out the CDSS information, most of this
is
>>> stuff
>>> we've heard before and holding a dance on campus is a bit more than
we
>>
can
>> handle. the sites are great and so are the suggestions, but I really
am
>>> looking for a "hook" on a poster...like Michale Ludgate's
"Support >>
Music, Go Contra Dancing"...but I'm not sure that will work either.
I've
>>> seen "turn off the TV...dance!" A night of aerobics... and some
>>
things, that's really what I'm looking for. Trying to hold dances on
>> campus
>> is great, but you need to have a person or group on campus that will
>> sponsor
>> the dance etc, and that's almost like starting a whole new dance
series
>>> (dont' really have time or resources to do this), our dance is >>
excessible to almost all the campuses that have dorms, most of the
>> colleges
>> are "comuter" colleges with day campuses and some of them (mostly in
the
>> city or what is considered the city) have
campus housing. All are on
bus
>> routes and our dance is in the heart of
the "cool" section of town.
Most
>>> young adults know about our area and the shops restaurants and bars.
>>>
>>> So, as you see, it's not so much getting individuals to view contra
>>> dancing
>>> or host a dance but just to get the option out there, visible, so >>
some
>> might try it and help spread the word.
>>
>> And then, I need an artist to create the poster.....
>>
>> Thanks again guys!
>>
>> Mary Collins
>> QCCD
>> ______________________________**_________________
>> Callers mailing list
>> Callers(a)sharedweight.net
>> http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers>
28 Oct
28 Oct
10:38 p.m.
Dance with a partner and all your friends -- all at the same time!
(Graphic of a a big circle of people holding hands in a way that connotes
motion.)
[For me, the unique value proposition of country dancing (English, contra,
Irish, Scottish, Regency, Victorian, square) is that you're dancing not only
with your partner but with the whole hall, doing the same patterns and able to
synch up with them. It helps if the music is awesome, etc, but this is what
this offers that you don't get in ballroom dance (everybody doing different
things to the same music) or Balkan, or whatever, where you don't get to
interact with a partner at all. I'm not convinced this tagline/graphic gets
that across, but that's what I'm getting at.]
-- Alan
--
===============================================================================
Alan Winston --- WINSTON(a)SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056
Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025
===============================================================================
Great idea Martha! I like it. I need to revisit the
Ants/Pants thing. I
find as a "non-traditional" student that most of the others in my classes,
while not all 18 but varying ages, greet the word dance with raised eyebrow
and glances askew. That word alone seems to be a bit of a "turn off", that
and my age. I think they think dancing with the stars and the like. So
while I am open to all suggestions, we all need to keep in mind, what works
for one community may not necessarily work for another. I actually attend
classes with the sister of one of our premier college dancer promoters (she
attends another college) but the one at my school works nights that we have
dances and so cannot bring friends. I will be checking out our "social
club" status, have not seen anything listed that suggests that we even HAVE
such a group.
Thanks guys, keep the ideas flowing and let's do
as Martha suggests and come
up with a great tag line...one that might work for all dance forms, Irish,
Scottish, English AND of course our fav...Contra!
Mary
QCCD
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Richard Hart
<rich(a)harts.mv.com> wrote:
A tagline
like, "Come dance with your friends" might work, especially if
you can put it on a poster that you give to a few of those college students
to post on college walls, and to act as contacts for spreading the word.
Martha Edwards remarked on 10/27/2011 10:49 AM:
How right you are, Mary! Our "messaging" could use a lot of work. We have
_______________________________________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers a
fabulous overall message to deliver - community, civility, enjoyment,
exercise, friendliness - if all human endeavors had the mores and customs
of
many of our dance organizations, we'd have a great world to live in. But
it's not a succinct marketing message.
Spider and others succeeded with her "Ants Pants Contradance - easy
dancing
to live music" but I agree, it would be good to work a bit on finding a
clear, memorable, great tagline. At my company, Extra Mile Design, we
often
work with a wonderful woman, Nancy Schwartz, who is a wizard at helping
people find that message. She runs a tagline contest every year. I think
one
is coming up. We should, collectively, try to come up with a worthy entry.
Check it out:
http://**nonprofitmarketingtraining.**com/programs-workshops/**
tagline-focus-project/<http://nonprofitmarketingtraining.com/programs-wo…
M
E
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Mary Collins<nativedae(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Great ideas guys, I'll check out the CDSS information, most of this is
______________________________**_________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<http://www.shared…
stuff
we've heard before and holding a dance on campus is a bit more than we
can
handle. the sites are great and so are the suggestions, but I really am
looking for a "hook" on a poster...like Michale Ludgate's "Support
Live
Music, Go Contra Dancing"...but I'm not sure that will work either. I've
seen "turn off the TV...dance!" A night of aerobics... and some other
things, that's really what I'm looking for. Trying to hold dances on
campus
is great, but you need to have a person or group on campus that will
sponsor
the dance etc, and that's almost like starting a whole new dance series
(dont' really have time or resources to do this), our dance is readily
excessible to almost all the campuses that have dorms, most of the
colleges
are "comuter" colleges with day campuses and some of them (mostly in the
city or what is considered the city) have campus housing. All are on bus
routes and our dance is in the heart of the "cool" section of town. Most
young adults know about our area and the shops restaurants and bars.
So, as you see, it's not so much getting individuals to view contra
dancing
or host a dance but just to get the option out there, visible, so that
some
might try it and help spread the word.
And then, I need an artist to create the poster.....
Thanks again guys!
Mary Collins
QCCD
______________________________**_________________
Callers mailing list
Callers(a)sharedweight.net
http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<http://www.shared…
4785
days inactive
4787
days old
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net
12 comments
8 participants
participants (8)
-
Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing -
barb kirchner -
Greg McKenzie -
Hanny Budnick -
Jonathan Sivier -
Martha Edwards -
Mary Collins -
Richard Hart