#frothers Unite!! Time for change.

[northernmonkey]

Hello to all you #frothers
Thought I'd take the liberty of starting us a nice new thread as the other is getting rather full. :)

Draft email to guest bloggers

a) is it too bum licky
B) does it nned any other info (have made links on the email to blog twitter and fb)

Dear (blogger)

Hi, I am contacting you on behalf of the #Frothers - Too Many Cuts. We are a group of (mainly) women who are getting more and more disillusioned and angry about the cuts our Government are making in all the wrong places. As a collective we have started a blog Frothers - Too Many Cuts and we would love for you to contribute. We believe that in order to get our message out to as many people as possible, we need to work together with other bloggers, activist groups, ordinary people, as we possibly can.

If you feel that you would like to join us as we froth with anger then please let us know, we welcome posts on any subject, and would really love for you to write for us.

We would also really appreciate it if you could help spread the word by adding us to your blog list, following us on twitter #Frothers or joining our Facebook page.

Regards,

Font

That sounds great, FS

i like it, doesn't sound bum licky to me

Okay, cool, first email sent (with a couple of comma tweaks for the pedants). If anyone wants me to email anyone specifically then please can you the PM me the blog/site link. Thanks :)

paper.li/IamalrightJack/1323050134 Is this one of us?

They have a whole #frothers page.

I think they got chatting to one of us yesterday and joined in, but don't think they have blog access etc.

He's not an original frother but sympathises with the cause. An ally

Huzzah!!!

Pageviews today 921
Pageviews yesterday 1,299
Pageviews last month 3,385
Pageviews all time history 3,385

Awsome, he has done us proud, we are all over his blog.

Wow. Are those unique views?

I noticed a Guardian editor just started following us on Twitter.

Kate, not sure, don't think the stats break down like that? Do we have a stat counter on there? that will give us more info.

Also, has anyone contacted the blogger 'Diary of a benefit scrounger?'

ooh who is the guardian editor?

omg, this is sooo exciting < quivers >

Do you realise we really look like we know what we are doing? How scary is that :o

or is it just me that thinks that and everyone else actually does know what they are doing

Lubey it's not just you...

lubeybaubley

nah, i only 'look' like i know what i'm doing

Oh thank the baby jeebus!

Basically, we are slightly accidently amazing.

I hope someone has written something for tomorrow! We need to keep the blog posts going...

Or even FontSnob

That paper.li thing is an automatic dooodah, I think that takes links that the person has RTed and puts them in a newspaper form. So he has RTed a lot of our links. :o

Ah, and he seems to have included a #frother timeline thing too.

I haven't looked into paper.li yet, but have seen a few people use it.

Font
Great email. Should we have a list of who we wish to approach, so we don't all contact the same people. We could perhaps ask MNHQ if the Bloggers Network could do something. Or at least contact some of the Bloggers who post on MN.

Am incredibly impressed with our stats, btw. You non-bloggers may not know this, but that is huge for such a new blog. I normally get between 5 and 6000 pageviews a month, when I first started I was getting maybe 30 hits a day.

I am brushing up my latin in order to commence a dialogue with Mr Gove.

Such is my dedication to the cause

TeWihara my blog post is coming along and will be ready by 11am tomorrow to post, sooner if at all possible (it's on the housing benefit capping)

I think we are articulating what people are feeling and we're easy to engage with so that is interesting and relevant to many, many people.

It's a Claire Phipps, Guardian news desk editor. She's probably following in non-professional capacity - she's probably a MNer! - but it all helps.