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Transcript of a Skype chat between James Farmer (edublogs) and Chris B

=Chat History with //James Farmer | James, can I ask you a question? ]]//= //Created on 2007-09-08 10:00:31.//

//2007-09-0//
Chris Betcher: 09:53:10 James, can I ask you a question? hehe, I just did... I meant another one... James Farmer v. amusing :) no headphone though so have to be just chat Chris Betcher: 09:54:14 ok... I'm on the PR committee for the k12 online conference James Farmer yep Chris Betcher: 09:54:23 and we were talking about ways to promote it James Farmer yep Chris Betcher: 09:54:35 and you're a sponsor of it I think? James Farmer I host it :) Chris Betcher: 09:54:46 ah ok James Farmer I proposed some tighter integration though Chris Betcher: 09:55:07 can we have a chat sometime about some ideas to get the word out? James Farmer Well, I do, ahem, have a mailing list of 60,000 teachers... Chris Betcher: 09:55:35 that's what i figured... ;-) James Farmer and Edublogs.org gets 500K PIs a day James Farmer To be honest I reckon you need a few things Chris Betcher: 09:56:00 so when you're not so busy, perhaps we can have a talk about some ways to promote it through edublogs James Farmer 1. Decent design / logo work Chris Betcher: 09:56:11 ok James Farmer & 2. Strong promotion through edublogs Chris Betcher: 09:56:26 right Chris Betcher: 09:56:32 agreed James Farmer < So what would work *really* well for us... James Farmer is being able to provide you with web design, graphic design, hosting and promotion Chris Betcher: 09:57:20 ok, well we should talk about that James Farmer and doing some really tight integration in terms of sponsorship James Farmer 'brought to you by' etc. Chris Betcher: 09:57:41 right Chris Betcher: 09:57:46 i like it... James Farmer Almost like a partnership\ James Farmer rather than a sponsorship Chris Betcher: 09:58:23 how about you let me know when you have a bit of time free and we can see what we can arrange? James Farmer you can save the 'sponsorship' rows for apple, blackboard etc. James Farmer Next week is pretty good (have tow meetings this morning... saturday!) Chris Betcher: 09:59:06 busy guy ;-) James Farmer Nuts... I reckon k12online is a great effort though and we'd love to propel you forward bigtime Chris Betcher: 09:59:46 we'd like that too... win/win James Farmer Better run, landline call coming in... Chris Betcher: 09:59:52 ok thanks mate James Farmer absolutely James Farmer cya