With "flood" I do not mean to send the same message several times (I mean unique press releases to several newspapers at once) and I do not suggest that one should change a working communication with the press. The "flooding" may work for a country where press releases are not yet established, but it does need some thought and adaption to each country and there circumstances. It is of course preferred to use the country PP mail as sender and hope that media is not flagging it as spam.<div>
<br></div><div>Besides having channels to communicate with old style press, there is of course a point in having activists blogging, this worked very well in Sweden where even portals such as <a href="http://live.piratpartiet.se">live.piratpartiet.se</a> proven to be a very valuable source of information for members, press etc. This also gets indexed by search engines so a search in Google etc. will catch peoples (interested people that may become or already are members / activists for us and press etc.) eye over time.<br>
<br></div><div>I hope my message is more clear now.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- Nicolas</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Pasi Palmulehto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scoffer@kofeiini.riippuvuus.net">scoffer@kofeiini.riippuvuus.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">That wouldn't really be smart thing to do. Or I don't know what's your<br>
relationship to press in your country, but at least in Finland we have a<br>
good relationship with the press. They call me minimum once a week, they<br>
love to write and show us pretty much (more than every other<br>
not-in-the-parliament partys together, many times). Such actions would<br>
only destroy that relationship and we could be sure our press releases<br>
wouldn't carry so much articles as now. We post press releases once for<br>
all and have couple dozen press releases per year at the moment. We<br>
usually get attention just by sending them :)<br>
<br>
If there's no response for press release, you just need to suck it up<br>
and maybe try to bring it up somehow else. Most important is to keep<br>
sending the press releases, but I disagree on sending same PR more than<br>
once.<br>
<br>
Pasi "Scoffa" Palmulehto<br>
Leader of Finnish Pirate Party<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
> Depends on the flood rate of course and who said one can not<br>
> distribute the "flooding" between countless e-mail addresses by using<br>
> many activists private e-mail's? This besides blogging where spam<br>
> filters are not applicable.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> - Nicolas<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:05 PM, np <<a href="mailto:np@planetarc.de">np@planetarc.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> Nicolas Sahlqvist wrote:<br>
> > (...) but after 100 or more<br>
> > press releases maybe so do not get discouraged by there poor<br>
> feedback, just<br>
> > flood them until they start to listen!<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> Imho flooding them with press-releases is the most efficient<br>
> way to get<br>
> your press email-address into everyones spam-filter...<br>
><br>
> ymc,<br>
><br>
> Nils Pipenbrinck<br>
<br>
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