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Re:[KARM] Karma /₭/ NEW! X11 + Time Warp + More (pg.140) SIDECHAIN+ (pg. 143)
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parkkar
on 14/07/2014, 17:06:37 UTC
Welcome aboard Parkkar and thanks for your well thought out post. Beck? You bet. If you have any connections there, sure a lot of us would be interested hearing about it and what is on your mind.

Some ideas to increase brand awareness:

- Find Youtubers that you like and enjoy their videos/feel they provide a good vibe/message then find them on twitter and follow them. Then send them a few karma as a thank you for what they do via the tipbot. Since they typically have many followers, this could be a good entry point into spreading brand awareness.

- Find new-media outlets/people who have close ties to charities. For example, Glenn Beck works with MercuryOne.org which is a great charity. Regardless of politics, the work that that charity does is fantastic. He also has been talking to his audience about Bitcoin lately on his radio program/web site and he has about a combined 10 million radio listeners/internet tv viewers http://vimeo.com/95295818. I think we should consider reaching out as a community to these types of people/organizations because not only can we do something good but people like Beck have a direct line to large audiences of people thereby increasing exposure. It would be a win/win. I think for things like this we just need to contact them, explain what Karma is and let them know ahead of time of any pushes we plan for their charities. We can then request a brief mention on the radio/website after a successful charity push. I'd be more then happy to try to work with TheBlaze/MercuryOne on this - but I feel timing is important. We should do these types of campaigns when there is a consensus that we are "ready" and Karma is at a good place to do so (from a functionality standpoint, not price). I mean, if Doge can send the Jamaican bobsled team to the Olympics and get their logo on a Nascar, surely we can do some good charity work and get Karma out there!

I'm new to the Karma community but glad to be here. Just wanted to share my thoughts and get a feel from the gang and the devs if this is something we all would be interested in.

Regards!

Hi parkkar,

Glad you are aboard.  If you have not joined our forum please feel free to do so at:  http://karmashares.com/forums/index.php  

We encourage new points of view and these ideas could be posted in the Marketing/PR subforum there.

Thanks for your enthusiasm!

pdogg147

Thanks for the welcome! No, I don't have any connections over at MecuryOne Studios... I'm just a fan of Becks and subscriber to The Blaze internet TV/radio. I figured since I'm passionate about both the blaze and karma that I wouldn't mind investing some time into trying to inform them of karma and any charity pushes we may propose doing for them. I'm an independent technology/business strategy consultant so I have a lot of experience in putting effective and polished proposals together. But with that said, if the plan is to have an official PR firm then we can let them handle communications - I'm just thinking if we wanted to move on something like this before we have such a firm on board.

I reached out to Glenn Beck and the MercuryOne charity on Twitter to let them know that we are considering doing charity pushes for good causes as well as to increase awareness of Karma. MercuryOne responded back and gave me an email address to speak in more detail. I emailed them to explain that since we are a community, we have to come to a consensus as to when we would do charity pushes, work out internal logistics, timing etc but that I just wanted to be proactive with them for planning purposes. I explained that this isn't necessarily a tomorrow thing but we wanted to open up a conversation. They seemed receptive and said to contact them again once we've made a determination as to what we want to do, how and when so their team can review.

So we're under no obligation to do this but we now have an open invite for further dialogue. Thoughts?