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« on: November 30, 2008, 06:36:56 PM »

Over the years we have had a great number of people offer to help us, graphics, web design, all kinds of things!!

Frankly, we've never been organized to take advantage of it, but we're working on it!!

Here are a few things we always need - to keep APK community driven, it needs community input!!

Picture of the Week submissions - hopefully someday we'll have to split this out by state! for now, there are some weeks when we get two pictures form the WHOLE COUNTRY!!

Local News - we need reporters to say what is happening in local scenes! Please email me on Sundays "m2 at americanparkour.com" with what went down in your town, if it's front page worthy we'll throw it up there, if not and we get enough stuff we'll start a "local news" section.

Articles - what's your area of expertise? Does it apply to parkour or help this community in some way?

We also currently need help with our newsletter / online magazine "The Freerunner" - email "zac at americanparkour.com"

And with our links section, collecting info and banners form parkour websites around the country and around the worl, please email "leon at americanparkour.com"

Thanks!!
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« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2008, 06:41:38 PM »

With the online magazine, what kind of help are you in need of?
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« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2008, 06:43:40 PM »

Not sure, best to check in with Zac, thanks!!
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« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2008, 07:35:19 PM »

I'd be willing to help with stuff but I don't think I'm good at any of that stuff
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« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2008, 08:47:43 PM »

Is there somewhere specific we need to submit any articles we might want to write?
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« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2008, 10:23:10 AM »

Just email it to any of the Tribe or Alliance guys. We're trying to sort things out amongst us so that M2 doesn't get a gajillion emails a day  Tongue

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« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2008, 11:57:18 AM »

too late Tongue


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« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2008, 08:27:53 PM »

M2, just a suggestion...


You kind of already did this in this thread but it may be helpful to put this information on other parts of the site, so people can contact specific Tribe/Alliance members with specific information. I'm not sure if the roles for the Tribe/Alliance members are clearly defined at this point (e.g. all newsletter inquiries/submissions go to Zac, all community links go to Leon, etc.) but it might save you some strain on your inbox if some of those "go to" directions were posted somewhere on the main page as well as perhaps in a sticky in the FAQ here.

Another thought (although you are probably already doing this somewhere and I'm not seeing it)--maybe on the main page have it say where people can email questions to by region. I imagine you get a lot of emails from people asking about how to get started or how to start/find a group; etc, and I imagine you forward a lot of these on to people in areas that are geographically near to where your inquiries are coming from. It may save you a step by just having on the main page, "For questions about starting a university club, email so-n-so at..." and "For the East Coast, email so-n-so..." etc. Or maybe divide it by state instead of region? That said, I know there is some benefit to having a handle on the big picture so it's probably useful to you to at least see all the emails even if there are so many that it can be overwhelming. Depends on your preferred organizational style and whatever works for you.

Might be premature, not sure where you guys are at in terms of growth vis a vis roles, but I thought I'd throw it out there as a way to save you from the "e-valanche" Smiley

PS: I'm happy to help out however I can, all you have to do is ask! I will try to be on top of some Local News from Madison but I can't promise a consistent report each week!

Zac... let me know what you need for the newsletter. I'll message you to get a discussion going.
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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2008, 12:07:51 PM »

I think this ought to be stickied.
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« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2008, 12:44:36 PM »

I'm new to Parkour but not new to graphic design or general human resources.

I'm also an English major and would be willing to help wherever I can.
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« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2008, 01:42:56 PM »

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« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2008, 03:02:36 PM »

I have a few half-written articles on my desktop. If I got them finished, I would just email them to someone on the Tribe?
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« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2008, 06:44:15 AM »

Email them to me (zac@americanparkour.com) and Ando (ando@americanparkour.com) and we'll post them for you.
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