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Earth.org got featured on http://www.tnooz.com today 
Tnooz is a provider of news, analysis, commentary, data and business services to the travel, tourism and hospitality industry.
Wiki vs Professional debate returns as Earth.org tries to muscle into content arena – http://bit.ly/9oHAqI
@catfraser madame, please take a look: http://www.guardian.co.uk/observer-ethical-awards do you think we should be part of it … just to give it a try?? It’s in the UK, can you check the categories and if it’s worth to nominate Earth.org?
hey good spot! There’s a business award which I’ll draft something for and send it over for you. I think I might have listed a few other options a while back also, I’ll have a look….
Earth.org is featured on feedmyapp.com: http://www.feedmyapp.com/p/a/earth-org-a-collaboratively-written-travel-guide/14885
Travel Daily News published the press release today on their website: http://www.traveldailynews.com/pages/show_page/35254-Earthorg-helps-you-travel-the-world
Awesome!
I’ve tweeted the news @ http://www.twitter.com/earthdotorg Please retweet!
cool beans everyone. rob good to see the twitter followers rising. keep builidng that if you find the time please. it’ll serve us well in the future. try getting it to 10.000 soon.
I am writing a guest post on http://www.travelblissful.com/ – Thanks Erika! Her blog is quite famous in the travel blogosphere!
1st very official super international remote PR team meeting… NOW!! happy to have you all on Skype, girls!!
“Earth.org has gone Google” – do you remember the video Otto made in Bali, explaining why we use Google Apps? Well, we sent that video to Google. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXqHLbpe9ic)
Today I got an email from Vivian, who is part of Google’s Marketing team, telling me that they would like to show our video at an internal Google event to the audience. Yeah yeah yeah!!!
I just imagine who will be sitting there watching our video… it’s the Google team! 
wicked!
Aaaaaawesome!
well done that is a good video
Coool! Great job – Otto will be famous
Wow!!! That is fantastic news and will definietly up our profile! Great work!!
Alba (Spain), Beatrix (Ireland), Sophie (UK), Cat (UK), Olivia (UK) and Teresa (Austria)…… SAY HELLO!
We are Earth.org’s megaphone… trumpet… ghettoblaster… we are telling the world about Earth.org. And there are so many things to say.
Today is D-Day in PR, we start sending out a general press release containing the aims/goals/the heart of Earth.org. We have collected many contacts (bloggers and journalists who focus on travel, travel industry, travel 2.0, web, crazy new ideas and projects, etc); till end of January we hope to get 1.000 emails out to a very targeted audience. Our goal: Get as many articles and posts published as possible!
While we’re at it, we have created a social media news release, that YOU can push as well, simply by re-tweet, bookmarks, stumble upon, digg, friend feed, share on Facebook, technorati, or on your blog. We need EVERY posted link to create awareness!! Please help:
http://pressitt.com/smnr/earthorg-helps-you-travel-the-world/774/
What’s next: In February we will focus on remote work, in March the Ambassador program will be pushed. The general Earth.org topics will go out throughout the upcoming months, of course modified with cool new features!
Oookay, we get loud now. Let’s do it!!!!!!!!!
Very nice picture – and a big HELLLLOOOO! retweeted and shared on FB!
Thanks, Otto!
YEEAAAH, let’s do it!
Getting loud sounds wonderful! Thank you!!!
Thanks for the post, PR has a great team!
i see… girls only
seems like tech has to do a pciture collage now too!
thanks for doing what you do PR TEAM!!!!
Thanks Teresa, very nice picture! And the press release is great! Very well done Teresa & Cat!
Now everything is ready! Let’s go for it!
Well done guys! The Press release looks great And such a wonderful photo collage!
Nice pic
Finished with commenting Teresa’s press release and email template, talk to you later everyone!
good job Madame and thanks for respecting the timeline!
Anne speak to Anne????
merci for your thoughts, Anne! I re-edited and played around with some paragraphs, now I handover to @catfraser for her final blessings!
@all will let you know here on the blog what will happen then 
Thanks Teresa! Will take a look today!
Hello all,
the PR team is asking your for some small support! HELP US SPREADING THE WORD
At the moment we are collecting contacts& email addresses from people who could be interested in Earth.org (travel journalists, travel industry experts & bloggers, web2.0 & online travel bloggers, etc…)
Please think about interesting / juicy / inspiring / crazy people or blogs you know/read from time to time! Are there any people out there who you think would like to hear about Earth.org?
Have some in mind? Please send it to teresa (at) earth.org
THAAANKS GUYS!
Hello everyone!
PR team got a new post in a travel blog from Argentina! It’s a short mention, but this blog is quite a lot well know in the Spanish-speaking environment!
Link: http://www.blogdeviajes.com.ar/articulos/acuse-de-recibo-10
Perfect – congratulations! Nice blog!
Great, thanks for that!
Thanks, Alba! I will publish all those posts and mentions in the Earth.org press room: http://www.earth.org/press-clippings
Take a look: Earth.org goes SPANISH
http://hispanotas.com/2010/01/06/deja-tus-huellas-en-earth-org-la-guia-de-viajes-abierta/
Thanks to Alba!
Today…first PR meetings in 2010 with Olivia, Sophie and Alba! hehe let’s go girls
Hi all, I am back from France. Anne and me had some relaxing time, enjoyed busy Paris, semi-busy Lyon and sleepy Leynes. We also found some time to talk about Marketing and PR plans for Q1. Pretty good outcome I have to say!
Now preparing for meetings this week with my super motivated PR team. LEt’s go girls!
Since we took the decision to open all our internal dialogue to everyone, this blog has become our global hub of all project-related communication.
And as more people stumble across earth.org and join in, both internal and external documents have an increasing number of people contributing and collaborating – in different styles; tones; and varied levels of good, clear English.
Whilst it is great for the project that so many are getting involved, please consider those who may be experiencing Earth.org for the first time via the blog or an email broadcast.
If earth.org wishes to be a credible, global English (English UK rather than English US language) brand, we need to be more consistent and acurate in our English broadcast communication whenever we can.
Teresa has already done a fantastic job of defining a clear global writing style across all press releases, web content and newsletters; and as a native English speaker (based in the UK) I am always working along-side her as an English copywriter to ensure the grammer is 100% correct before publishing. But this process shouldn’t stop here.
So whether it is a new blog post you are working on, copy for an email or a quick post on a social media channel that you feel needs a quick edit or grammer check, please send all english copy to cat (at) earth.org for review.
Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas to all at EDO!
Does it really matter how pure your english is? I live in a country with 13 official languages and a new language that we call “fanigalo” has been created.A mish mash of all , mostly english.It is impure english, yet we understand each other. If you focus on the Queen’s english, and worry more about grammar that content, well, in my opinion, you will exclude a lot of people.Don’t be descriptive, focus on inclusive.Language isnt a big barrier to communication after all. true intent is a universal language.
yes it does matter. we want to come across as professional as possible on the official communication. thanks cat.
Great Cat, thanks for your help. From my side, I need your help for
- our job adverts in HR: http://www.earth.org/jobs?
- a couple of emails patterns
- and a quick look to the sponsor/write and plant presentations would be also useful, I think. I’ll send you everything in the next days!
Thank you very much Cat, that is a great offer. I am going to send you the presentation of the Sponsor and Plant project. THANX!!! Eva
Hi Cat! 1) Thanks for this help – and you will anyhow priorize your topics in a way that you might not find the time to review a normal blog post, 2) Suggest not to display your email ID here openly – this will result in SPAM (I changed this for you here) & 3) Merry Christmas to you tooooooo!
Fantastic thanks guys!
Thanks Cat, I see you will be very busy You will hear from me soon too.
@Cat, thank you very much for your offer. I’ll be among your clients…
@Talent, I also understand what you mean by including other people without barriers. I agree with it and I think that Earth.org does not want to discriminate anybody. As far as I understand the good quality and inclusion can go together since everybody can write (this is why is Earth.org open), but an eye to detail would be appreciated.
Hola! I’m new on the team as PR voluntary for Spain. My pleasure can say hello in this blog to all of you! I discovered earth.org no so long time ago and I got fascinated with this project, so I couldn’t resist the temptation to join the team. So, you will see me from now on very often over here. Nice to meet you!
Здравей от България Enjoy the journey.
Mucho gusto and welcome from Paris!!!
Saludos Mareike
Hi Alba, good to have you on board now. Welcome to our team
welcome!
Bienvenida desde el sur de España
Hola hola! Nice introduction words 
And a very warm welcome! Hasta pronto.
Hola! Nice to have you in the team!!! Eva
Welcome aboard, Alba!
Bienvenida y buen trabajo.
just finished a press release on Facebook Connect, together with Cat.
Now waiting for @Emran and @Valentin and their technical blessing
sorry did not get back but read it. like the pi. can send it out if you wanna
maybe emran can be mentioned?
Good morning post for you: Earth.org is top story on ekoVenture.com:
“Earth.org has truly implemented a unique idea – one that will benefit a community of travelers. We all know that if there is one thing a journeyer likes to do, it is write, blog, and share their experiences. Earth.org relies on this ideal, and has successfully provided content on obscure and unique destinations around the world.”
Read the full story here: http://blog.ekoventure.com/
wow – very nice text! very good morning Teresa!
PR UK meeting with Sophie and Olivia
et voila, here some news from our UK PR team:
- both are working well together on entering the UK student market. They contact different universities and student magazines. Aside they are sending mails to “gap year students” – young people who take a one year break to travel around before they go to university – and there are a lot! They ask them to report their experiences on Earth.org. Furthermore they are looking for new volunteers – Sophie is going to publish another article in “The Knowledge” – this time focusing on volunteering @ Earth.org.
- Olivia is researching websites for elderly people – the silver surfers – who actually do travel a lot – and use the Internet heavily for booking and research. She’s planning to start contacting these people in her hometown – and evaluate the results so that we can start thinking of a nation wide strategy for the silver surfers.
- super cool news: Olivia and Sophie managed to get us a stall at a nation wide volunteer fair in UK in February 2010. We will have a “Earth.org table” where they present Earth.org’s volunteering project – and distribute handouts, business cards,
@Rob the girls told me that they can print a poster at their university quite cheap – they will send me a list of what they’d need to build a nice Earth.org stall
@HR would be perfect to have a complete overview on what kind of volunteer positions Earth.org is offering. I will send you an email on that!
Emily, our new PR UK manager, has excellent contacts to different kinds of offline/online media in the UK; she is responsible for contacting them. We will meet this week and see where to start!
That’s it for now! we will tell you about the results
Enjoy your evening all.
@Sophie @Olivia @teresa fantastic work girls!!
Take a look: I’ve just published our first SOCIAL MEDIA RELEASE (by pressitt.com)
It’s pretty coool – having quotes, videos, pics, files, social media accounts and text released at the same time!!
Thanks @danwtmoon for the hint!!
ah yes: last task before weekend: PLEEEASE, my dears, click on it, share it on FB and Twitter accounts, if you like!
which reminds me. we need tweetmeme button and share option on every post. someone said it before (think dan) @tott gotta be doing it after move.
will share it t
Great stuff! Shared
@Valentin: good call, make it so!
Hi all! We have fresh support in the PR UK team — I just talked to Emily Shaw in a 2nd meeting; she is very happy to become part of Earth.org and she will be taking care of online/offline media in the UK as she has excellent contacts to magazines and newspapers; I will introduce her asap and she will join us here on the blog.
Emily, it’s really nice to have you in the team! Looking forward already to working with you.
@olivia @sophie I’d love to have you 3 girls in a meeting by the beginning of next week! Super UK power
And many thanks to our HR team — for finding such great new team members joining the project
Great news! The thanks goes to @renee in our HR team! Yiphiee
Rob 9:09 am on January 27, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Pls. retweet: http://twitter.com/earthdotorg/status/8272428167
Violeta 12:35 am on January 28, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Rob, very good article, I have retweeted… cheers… Violeta