I'm going to do the same and invite my colleagues from work, it's a great idea I think. The more the merrier! :-)

Helen,

I think your instinct is correct - invite colleagues to join just as the conference starts and, hopefully, the frenzied action begins.

Hi Dennis, Helen and Anna

Thanks for helping us promote Cardiff Online.

Can I suggest you let your contacts know about Cardiff Online now - if you're posting to lists, the information we've posted at

http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2009/forum/help-us-promote-cardiff-online

might be useful.

(We've updated this message & now have staffroom posters available)

The reason I suggest posting now is that those who get this information early, will be able to inform others ... and so on...

We'll be continuing our efforts to promote Cardiff Online ourselves in the coming days so I think we can expect numbers to rise as the conference approaches.

Many thanks & best wishes

Julian & Cardiff Online team

Julian,

If you see this let me mention that in answer to your suggestion I'm about to write to a number of TEFL lists comprising a membership of about 2000. But don't get euphoric, they are 99.8% lurkers.

Thanks Dennis

That sounds great - brownie points all round!

Cheers

Julian

Thanks Julian, but......

Using Gmail I sent a message to about 20 lists, i.e. 20 addresses, all of them Yahoogroups , and several came back rejected because the server decided they were going to too many recipients. I'll send them out in 3s and 4s, but it is tedious.

Keith Kelly writes:

Hi Dennis

Just wanted to say that
there is now a banner on factworld.

Sorry I didn’t think of
it before your mail!

Also, it’s a great job
you’re doing, hope the numbers are bigger than last year!

Best

Keith

I choose to interpret this as meaning the posting prompted him to put up the banner. Keith's Factworld list has about 2,000 members.

I ‘ve  just finished sending out information about Cardiff Online to the following  Yahoogroups lists.  I’m co-owner/moderator/founder  for many of them and a member of all of them.

BESIG      (Business English)        852

Factworld          2583 (Essentially CLIL)

Young Learners     556

Secondlife languages    91

Evoline (Webheads)  786

Learning with computers        442

Inter-Elta  (German Association of English language Teachers ‘associations)  43

Dogme (Scott Thornbury’s list)  908

GISIG (Global issues)   170

   The Following English lists:

Albanian English        265

CETEFL     (Central European)         51

Croatia                      275

Czech                          350

Germany                   226

Kosovo                        195

Macedonia                  57

Poland                         454

Slovakia                       249

Swiss                            611           

I make that 9,169 . Can I go off for a cup of tea now?

Today I make it  10,921 .....

(Thanks for clearing it up).

???? I pasted in part of a message and the result is gibberish I cannot delete. Isn't it possible to paste - it was old from WORD

Just circulated info about Cardiff Online to something like 9000 people. I wanted to report to which lists.

.

Hi all,

Inspired by Dennis, I have just sent invitations to Cardiff to my yahoo group members (TEI2006) some 40 colleagues.I Hope they will respond to my invitation.Good luck to us;)

Mostafa- LMCS moderator.

Hi everyone,

I have sent out invitations to my "Comenious" friends from Hungary and Portugal, to my ELTECs project friends from Croatia, Greece and Turkey, to my Bulgarian and Romanian colleagues, to the Chinese colleagues I met at the China IATEFL conference  and have printed and personally handed out and explained how to navigate the conference site to my colleagues at the school and the university. I haver asked them to spead the word to as many teachers as they can.

Because I know how shy my Chinese colleagues are, I have told them that they don't have to necesserally write or speak. They can log on and just read or listen. If and when they feel comfortable , they can join a discussion.

Hope that's alright with you.

I posted an announcement on the Teaching Children SIG for JALT (Japan). Hope not everyone is off on holiday for Spring Break, and some show up here :)

Mostafa, Iskra, Helen, Barbsaka,

 Thanks for your efforts to recruit more members of this forum.

Already, as you have all noticed, the discussion here is cracking along and - of course we know that it is the quality not the quantity - we are in place 3 or 4 when it comes to the big posters.

There is such richness in our roughly 160 messages. I do hope that some of us can follow up some of the topics outside and after the conference. I am very keen, for example, to re-read and think about the postings from Kosovo, and others of you will have different personal interests you wish to pursue.

 And think. The conference has not begun yet!