Just wanting to point out that the CHSIB Promo Frum was set up by Rainer not just for David and myself. It was set up for EVERYBODY involved in wanting to promote CHSIB in the USA and elsewhere. MB has contributed many ideas, so has Shane
This separate forum with Read Only access for all, and posting access restricted to those who asked Rainer was, as I understand it, set up to keep all information on promotional activities:
In one place
Quickly and easily accessible
Clean rather than drifiting into discussion or arguments (Anyone can get access to post by sending a pm to R, but he alone will moderaste the forum, and will make sure threads don't degenerate into chat or argument)
And would keep all the threads highly visible without needing to make them sticky
This was one reason why back in April I started the sticky Things You Can Do thread for the UK promotion with a plea at the top to keep it to actions rather than chat .. and even that wandered into discussion at which point good ideas can be lost to those who don't have the time or patience to wade through entire and lengthy threads .. For eg Tim, all the discussion leading up to Rainer's suggestion, people's agreement and his action is in the CHIB USA PROMO PUSH thread, but it's a long thread now and needs time to locate ideas and suggestions .. you couldn't find find it
It also has the function of listing participating websites with promotional information once. When any of us add something now we need only say which site it's on. Because the urls for all the sites are listed by Rainer we don't need to post any again and hopefully this will avoid any comments suggesting people are using this board to promote their site, because those involved simply want to help people promote Meat's single and album.
My only concern is that we still don't have a thread where everybody can come in and share experiences without first registering, because I do think that the ability to pop on and chatter excitedly somewhere is helpful and gets and keeps people motivated. The success stories which were posted during the UK campaign played, I believe, a large part in getting and keeping people involved.
As to what I have in addition to breasts .. ideas, promotional materials, data to support people's promotional activity .. oh .. and people generally think I have balls as well
.. although mine are metaphorical whereas I trust yours are genuine :)