Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Monday, July 11, 2005

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Kids, I'll keep it short.

1) I've added a women's issues category to the U-CAN blog... it seems we have had a high volume of posts on the particular problems/torture women face, so I think a category was merited.

2) WE NEED YOUR COMMENTS ON THE UGANDA-CAN BLOG. We need to draw readers into our online community -- but so far there IS NO COMMUNITY! There will only be community if we all read the blog every day, and post lots and lots of comments. Dont worry about sounding intelligent, just post post post!! We can't hope to build a large scale coalition with such little community interaction... the comments are a "little thing" but I think it matters.Please, please, go read the blog, and comment, and then do it again tomorrow!

Your friend,

Boney

p.s. I bought my ticket to DC :-)

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Whut up Wednesday

Hey all, Nate here. How are things moving on everyone's end? It would be great to have a short update from folks so we can all be on the same page this week and next as we really start getting things progressing.

I have been working on a multitude of stuff from contacting organizations about partnerships in terms of relief assistance, to organizing campaign materials for the website, and to mail out or use in hard-copy form. I have also been trying to keep on top of a lot of the general issues Peter and I have been working out--I'm sure you have been getting asked a lot of questions, but things are really moving forward, and I think we're off to a great start.

I also wanted to highlight the work of a few people who have been especially helpful to me this week.

I have been emailing Jimmy like crazy trying to figure out a lot of the web issues, and these guys working on the site and keeping our tech stuff in order deserve huge thanks. A lot of what we're doing is web-based, so without them, we really wouldn't have much to refer people too.

Also, Allison has been doing a great job with fundraising, and she is very quick in responding to my random questions. Thanks a lot for all the work you have been doing; fundraising can be one of the most stressful tasks.

And of course I think we all need to highlight the work that Peter has been doing. He never ceases to amaze me, and next thing you know we're on the front page of the Monitor. Peter, you're not only like a brother to me after Uganda, but you're an inspiration to all of us.

Anyway, let’s keep motivated in the next few weeks and really get things moving as we have people heading into DC to really get the ball rolling down on capital hill. Thanks to everyone who has been working hard in the shadows too, I know you're out there doing great things. Keep us posted and continue your great work.

Cheers from Michigan,

--Nate--

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Cincinnati... then Narleans...

Hi all, I'm pretty excited about all the work everyone is doing. It appears we're off to a great start.

As for myself, I'm going to be MIA for about two weeks: moving to Cincinnati in a few days, then going to a search engine conference in New Orleans. If you have a Web site emergency, call me, and if it's not an emergency, email Jimbo. Cheers

Monday, June 13, 2005

Nate Update

Whut up U-CAN Team, Nate here. I just wanted to throw up a quick layout of what I will be accomplishing within the next few days.

1. searching out possible grant opportunities and revising the grant through some grant-writing contacts I have.
2. formulating materials that we can post on the website for distribution
3. mass emailing my school [grand valley] with information on the campaign
4. recruiting folks to jump on the UCAN bandwagon to volunteer and especially donate money
5. writing my own special interest story for local distribution
6. working on locating organizations within colleges/universities that we could possibly target as UCAN partners or at least sponsers.
7. formulating ideas for where our emergency relief money will go

Long hours ahead, but I'm confident that we are doing something amazing. we should really be proud of eachother, and i'll be the first to welcome you to a new chapter in the history of this horrific conflict. i really feel we can change things, and we're off to a great start.

Greetings from Michigan,

--Nate--

Friday, June 03, 2005

DONATE PAGE UP!

The site is still under HEAVY construction, but we have one important page up and fully operational:

http://www.ugandacan.org/u-can/donate.html

Give us your money!!!!!!!

Cheers,
Andy

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Web site update

Just so everyone knows, the Web site will be officially up-and-running (rather than "experimental", which is what it is now) on or around June 7.

BJ is doing some design edits which should be done within 48 hours, and then Jimbo and I will need about 72 hours to do back end stuff, clean up CSS, put everything into php, fully integrate and tweak the blog, etc. (That's an optimistic timeline, but we promise to work hard).

When that is done, I will give everyone more info on exactly how they can interact / add content to the blog and site.

Then Jimbo, Me, Johnny and Scott will have a field day with the internet marketing side - so we're prolly looking at June 9 for the press release to hit the wires, if that's OK. Let me know.

Cheers,
Andy