Remit

To determine how we can best publicise our activities both internally (to the membership) and externally (to the wider world).

HCS Executive Contact Point

Robert Dale [Chair, Finance and Publicity]

Core Members

Stephen Malloch (Chair); Chris Davis; Cécile Paris; Stephen Barrass

Comments

For internal publicity, two obvious strategies here are development of the HCSNet web site and the publication of a regular newsletter. But what should these contain? How would content for a regular newsletter be obtained? How frequent should it be? Can we use the same newsletter for external publicity? Should we have a flyer that advertises the network, and if so, who should it be targeted at and what should it contain?
In terms of the original budget proposed for the Network, we had allocated somewhere around $25k per annum for activities in this area. How would such a sum be best spent? Is this too much or too little?

Target Deliverables

By January 27th 2005:
* A five minute presentation on possible activities in this area.

By February 22nd 2005:
* A status report on where the Working Group has got to (pdf format), incorporating ideas generated at the HCSNet Launch Meeting and subsequent discussion.

By April 1st 2005, a report that:

• Identifies a range of vehicles that might be used to inform network members about each others' interests and activities; outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each; and provides some indication of how these would be created and maintained, along with indicative costings.

• Identifies a range of vehicles that might be used to advertise HCSNet to the outside world, along with costs and benefits.