advocacy-email-samples
advocacy email samples
To help with the advocacy of microformats, when you successfully convince a site owner/developer to adopt microformats, please consider sharing the email you sent here so that others in the community can leverage your experience and success and re-use your work in further advocacy with additional sites.
You may wish to reword your email sample in some form of template form, e.g. Dear SITEOWNER, your SITENAME <SITEURL> could benefit from microformats... Use ALLCAPS to indicate text that should be replaced with specific site instance information.
Contributors
- Tantek Çelik
- ...
Samples
Add hCard to your contact info page
Hi SITEOWNER,
I like to get folks started with a really simple really easy and quick win use of microformats to get something done quickly for experience etc.
See if you can add hCard to your SITENAME contact info page:
SITECONTACTINFOURL
And add an "Add to Address Book" link as well.
E.g. take a look at how Technorati's contact info page works (view source) with the "Add to Address Book" link.
http://technorati.com/about/contact.html
http://feeds.technorati.com/contacts/SITECONTACTINFOURL
When you've successfully done so, go ahead and ping http://pingerati.net/ with the contact info page URL once you have updated it with hCard so that it can be indexed by event search engines.
http://pingerati.net/ping/SITECONTACTINFOURL
And add your contact page to the list of examples in the wild here:
http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-examples-in-wild
Thanks,
Add hCalendar to your event
Hi SITEOWNER,
Please consider marking-up the event information on your event page with hCalendar:
http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar
And add an "Subscribe to Events" link as well.
E.g. take a look at how BarCamp's site works (view source) with the "Subscribe..." link in the sidebar:
webcal://feeds.technorati.com/events/SITEEVENTINFOURL
When you've successfully done so, go ahead and ping http://pingerati.net/ with your event page URL once you have updated it with hCalendar so that it can be indexed by event search engines.
http://pingerati.net/ping/SITEEVENTINFOURL
And add your event info page to the list of examples in the wild here:
http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar-examples-in-wild
Thanks,