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Thanks for the nice rule of thumb. Have you made a billboard before? Any examples you can show?<BR>
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Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:30:44 -0700<BR>Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Submitting billboard designs to promote hackerspaces<BR>From: matt@woz.org<BR>To: adi@hexapodia.org<BR>CC: maltman23@hotmail.com; dmhomee@gmail.com; willow.bl00@gmail.com; j@bucketworks.org; mistriss_poet@hotmail.com; astera@hackerspaces.org; noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<BR><BR>A good rule of thumb for billboard advertising is eight words or less.
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<DIV>BUT, if you know the rules about billboard design, you can break them. That's why I suggested doing a comic. The comic idea would NOT work for a billboard on a highway though, only for billboards in an urban center (you need pedestrians).</DIV>
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<DIV>-Matt</DIV>
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<DIV>P.S. No need to worry about upgrading a server for a billboard, it will not create a lot of demand. HOWEVER, if you get some good PR out of it in some way, then that may.</DIV>
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<DIV>P.P.S. There are other outdoor advertising options besides billboards.</DIV>
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<DIV class=ecxgmail_quote>On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Andy Isaacson <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:adi@hexapodia.org">adi@hexapodia.org</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV class=ecxim>On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 04:37:06PM -0700, Mitch Altman wrote:<BR>><BR>> I was thinking that it would be cool to have a collaborative billboard for the three spaces in the Bay Area. Something like?:<BR>> HACKERSPACES,<BR>> (they're not what you think)<BR>> -- TEACH, LEARN, SHARE WHAT YOU LOVE<BR>> Find one near you:<BR>> <A href="http://www.tiny.cc/hackerspaces" target=_blank>www.tiny.cc/hackerspaces</A><BR><BR></DIV>I like this. How about linking to <A href="http://hackerspaces.org/" target=_blank>hackerspaces.org</A>? The map there is<BR>pretty awesome. Might need to beef up the web hosting if it's likely to<BR>get crushed under the load, though. :)<BR><BR>CCing Astera.<BR><FONT color=#888888><BR>-andy<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV> </body>
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