advocacy-email-samples

From Microformats Wiki
Revision as of 08:25, 28 March 2007 by Tantek (talk | contribs) (drafted with a couple of email samples)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

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:

http://barcamp.org/

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,