Contacting external organisations

This page is intended to be an area where we develop good practice in communcation, both internally and externally. It's likely that we'd like to contact all sorts of external agencies for a wide variety of reasons - here is where we figure out 'best practices' to follow, and keep track of who's chatting to whom.

'How To'

It's usually as simple as flicking an email to a publicised contact of an organisation, and if possible suggesting a short meeting at a suitable time to discuss any desired outcomes (ie. from the vauge, but friendly 'we'd like to introduce ourselves, and talk a bit about possible future partnerships' to the more specific 'we'd really like to be able to work with you on project x - are you interested?'

I'd envisage a lot more 'meat on the bone' in this section, so if you have any ideas - edit away!

Folk we're interested in chatting to

• The Manly Sea Eagles - I'd love to attend a press afternoon, or training run, and get some high quality images etc. - I have the feeling that this would be fairly straight forward.

Folk we've established contact with

The Powerhouse Museum

Sydney WMAU members have been in touch via email, and person-to-person chats with folk at the Powerhouse. See 'Backstage_pass' for more information about a current project.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales

I'm meeting with them next week having been introduced as part of the 'Wikipedia Loves Art' project - on flickr, facebook, and en :-) Privatemusings 05:40, 23 January 2009 (UTC)