TDWG Accomplishments that Should Be Promoted

1. New constitution and processes (what it implies)
2. New Interest and Task Groups
3. New Web site, Wiki, OJS, blog, News, standards repository and mail list manager. It would be particularly good to promote the blog as a mechanism of presenting new (provocative) ideas.
4. New FAQ, Glossary and Help for online systems
5. TDWG brochure and poster
6. A number of PowerPoint presentations about TDWG suitable for use at other meetings
7. Site registration and membership (with online payments) and *donations*
8. The Proceedings of TDWG. We must promote this!
9. Round 2 projects and contracts
10. LSID developments and directions. We now have IPNI, Index Fungorum, ZooBank? and soon Species 2000 deploying LSIDs.
11. TAPIR/TAPIRLink developments and directions (including BigDig?)
12. Interest and Task Group meetings?
13. Geointeroperability demo (being loaded to the TDWG site soon I hope!)
14. TDWG 2007 in Bratislava
15. New agreements e.g., OGC MoU
16. Implementations of TDWG standards/protocols
17. Executive Summaries of TDWG standards
18. Video clips about TAPIR and LSIDs ready for You Tube etc
19. Current activities
20. Meeting reports
21. The database of > 500 biodiversity data projects
22. What else?

Mechanisms of Promotion

1. News item on TDWG Web site (optionally push to registered users?)
2. TDWG mail list
3. TAXACOM mail list
4. Identify additional listserves (e.g., ECN [Entomological Collections Network], others) to target or ask specific members of relevant listserves to post on TDWG's behalf
5. Publish at least one news item from TDWG in the new GBIF newsletter
6. Solicit membership and participation in TDWG through GBIF newsletter
7. OJS notification (500+ but overlaps with mail lists - OJS Editors only)
8. Presentations
9. Tutorials
10. Brochures (general and IT recruitment)
11. Standard logo, phrase for tools using a TDWG standard, to include in the tool ("this tool is using TDWG 89:TAPIR standard")
12. Press releases
13. Annual conference
14. Conferences of related organizations
15. Get a commercial PR firm to promote TDWG
16. Demonstrations of TDWG standards (eg Geointeroperability demo - coming online)
17. Mash-ups?
18. Subscription journal?

Volunteers for above tasks (indicate if you would lead or help if applicable)

Please add, delete or modify - or even better - go to Outreach2007And2008 and offer to do something from the above lists.

-- LeeBelbin - 06 Feb 2007 -- GailKampmeier - 15 Oct 2007