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Outreach Campaign: 200,000 Impressions Monthly

Started by mrfesta , Apr 22 2006 02:57 AM

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#1 mrfesta

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Posted 22 April 2006 - 02:57 AM

OK, this might be a long shot and still in beta phase but I would like to start an outreach project that is not very time consuming on a day to day bases. In a nutshell, I will use an auto messaging program to message 7,000 individuals on the social networking site of myspace.com each day. In each message I will clearly state that I'm not selling anything and because it is not sent anonymously I do not consider it as traditional spam. Each message will contain an invitation to participate in a short 15-20 question survey about life extension. rjws1700 is currently working on creating the website and survey ()

--The Plan--

*Create website with survey containing questions which will cause individuals to think about life extension in general and leave wanting to know more

*Maybe offer a Prize drawing each week or month to entice individuals to participate (what the prize would be, I don’t know)

*Create 1 good Myspace profile that is neutral in opinions about life extension but contains links to additional information.

*Copy the html from the “good” Myspace profile to 19 others

*Develop a good message to invite individuals to participate in the survey. Say its for a school assignment, for a marketing research company, or anything that is not pressuring.

*Ideally, obtain a total of 10 computers to run 10 programs in the morning and 10 at night (I currently have 5 computers for this and free electricity hehe)

*I will have to purchase 20 auto messaging programs because each auto messaging program is only good for 1 profile.
Eek Adder (Auto messaging program)

Cost: $45 for each profile, $500 for unlimited I currently have bought 7 (since October; I'm not rich) and to upgrade to an unlimited amount will cost $190 more

The program allows you to compile lists of users based on keywords, groups, and all demographics that Myspace offers. This is useful because you can customize the messages based on the target audience.

--What Now?

I need feedback about this idea. Should it even be undertaken? Would anyone else be willing to help with:

* Creating the Website
* Survey questions
* Myspace profile
* Sending me spare computer parts

--If all goes well--

If this project shows some good results other Imminst members could easily contribute if they wanted to with minimal effort. The Myspace profile template will have already have been created, the generic message will have been perfected and access to "unlimited" eek adder accounts will have been established.

Note: If you would like to try out the adder program they offer a demo version. But, you will need to create a Myspace profile and download the program.

#2 Live Forever

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Posted 22 April 2006 - 03:23 AM

Jeff,
You know I think this is a good idea.

few things:
1) Are you sure this program is the best/cheapest option for doing what it does? I did a search for "myspace mailer" on Google, and the first link looked like it had several options. Any freeware or open source programs out there that do the same sort of thing? (I am not the best Myspace user by the way, I don't know which specific features that are needed)
2) I can help out on some of this stuff if needed, it doesn't sound too time-consuming
3) If the weekly/monthly winner is an attractive female, I would be willing to take them out on a date for their "prize" (that is just how giving of an individual I am) [sfty]

Nice work mrfesta and rjws1700! [thumb]

#3 mrfesta

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Posted 22 April 2006 - 03:42 AM

Jeff,
You know I think this is a good idea.

few things:
1) Are you sure this program is the best/cheapest option for doing what it does? I did a search for "myspace mailer" on Google, and the first link looked like it had several options. Any freeware or open source programs out there that do the same sort of thing? (I am not the best Myspace user by the way, I don't know which specific features that are needed)
2) I can help out on some of this stuff if needed, it doesn't sound too time-consuming
3) If the weekly/monthly winner is an attractive female, I would be willing to take them out on a date for their "prize" (that is just how giving of an individual I am) [sfty]

Nice work mrfesta and rjws1700! [thumb]

1) Its the best program that I could find. The link you suggested had 1 adder program for 50$ (looks about the same but I don't know if they offer the unlimited option) I wish there was some freeware

But have yet to find any.
2) Thanks
3) Since we will be in charge of the drawings...... [wis] (but, unless the survey asks questions about how they look it will be hard to tell who is attractive and who is not and based on your standards)

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Posted 22 April 2006 - 03:55 AM

If the weekly/monthly winner is an attractive female

You know, on myspace, looks can be deceiving ;-)

Do you guys have a technology to collect the answers to the survey and generate some useful attitudes & demograhpics data on the way?

#5 mrfesta

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Posted 22 April 2006 - 06:11 AM

Do you guys have a technology to collect the answers to the survey and generate some useful attitudes & demograhpics data on the way?

Not currently. For now I was just doing this to spread the meme because there IS easy to use survey software out there but it is rather expensive for me.

There is some for 20$ a month but they cap a limit of 1,000 responses.

There is unlimited survey's and responses for 350$ (for non profits) with Zoomerang, among others. If others are willing to chip in for the expense then this would be very useful

[airquote] Two birds, One stone [/airquote] so to say.

#6 mrfesta

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Posted 22 April 2006 - 06:36 AM

Surveying the Healthy Life Extension Community
Posted on 04-21-2006 10:13:33 by Reason
Original post on Fight Aging

Ben Best has been running modestly sized surveys of his end of the healthy life extension community and visitors to his website of late. I think that this is an excellent idea. While we all - hopefully - share a common desire to live longer, healthier lives, the community exhibits a wide diversity of viewpoints and goals. As in many smaller cultures, getting anything meaningful accomplished is often a matter of herding cats - so it can't hurt to get a better handle on where the weight of opinion lies in our growing community. So many new supporters and interesting parties have joined and contributed in recent years that the old assumptions and community knowledge are losing their relevance.

Here is Best's latest, via Cryonet:

The "production version" of my Life Extension Values Clarification Survey is now on my website:

http://www.benbest.c...t/LE_Survey.php

I believe that this survey is a good tool for promoting life extension and cryonics by causing people to re-think their assumptions or raise their consciousness about issues they had not considered.

I request/suggest that cryonicists and life extensionists post the survey URL to the relevant (health, life-extension, etc.) newsgroups, discussion lists, chats, websites, etc., and/or send in e-mail messages to acquaintances as a means of raising awareness about life extension and cryonics. If you have not taken one of the earlier surveys you might want to try it, but otherwise there is not much point in doing so again.

This new survey has already been posted to my website for a few weeks and as of this writing has just reached 100 respondents:

http://www.benbest.c...y_LE_Survey.php

The responses can be compared to my earlier surveys of cryonicists

http://www.benbest.c...ay_Survey_7.php

http://www.benbest.c...ay_Survey_8.php

Jump right on in.

#7 mrfesta

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Posted 22 April 2006 - 07:13 AM

This is Exactly what I had in mind

[airquote] I believe that this survey is a good tool for promoting life extension and cryonics by causing people to re-think their assumptions or raise their consciousness about issues they had not considered. [/airquote]

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Posted 22 April 2006 - 11:42 AM

Ive got our page up and propagated, Im hoping I can make our survey page a little more visually stunning than Bens thus I will need a logo or a banner with LESURVEY.COM on it I am really bad at art so anyone wants to chip in. We get a free survey poll with the site package but I dont know how good it is. Its called advanced poll. I also need what the survey needs to contain what questions etc.
Once I get these Ill move forward. Maybe in the longterm LESURVEY can be a gateway into the community for outsiders.

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Posted 22 April 2006 - 11:58 AM

http://www.proxy2.de/poll/index.php

advanced poll link

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Posted 22 April 2006 - 06:57 PM

nice job so far rjws! [thumb]

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Posted 23 April 2006 - 12:44 AM

Sounds like a good idea, I am willing to help out with writing the survey. Could you give me an IM screen name of some sort, so we could communicate about this project in realtime?

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Posted 23 April 2006 - 01:17 AM

Im rjws1700 on aim lancelot1700 on yahoo

Btw a temp site is up at www.lesurvey.com yea its a black page but its got music lets see if anyone recognizes this immortalist favorite.....

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Posted 23 April 2006 - 01:43 AM

Btw a temp site is up at www.lesurvey.com yea its a black page but its got music lets see if anyone recognizes this immortalist favorite.....

Just a heads up, the song doesn't work in Firefox. I thought it just wasn't working, but then I tried it in IE and it started playing, so it must be an IE-specific script or something.

...and I don't recognize it, unfortunately.

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Posted 23 April 2006 - 12:11 PM

yea the tag I used is a generic one that firefox doesnt recognize I could change it but its just a temp to cover the control panel page and to show the site is ready for data to all you folks:)

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Posted 23 April 2006 - 12:15 PM

http://www.proxy2.de/poll/index.php

Heres the link to the polling software It doesnt offer demographics but they do have a section where they can fill that in, Id have to set it up to try it . Or find a website running it.

I think zoomerang does it all emails and everything and as the plan is to hit myspace it seems a bit much. advanced poll pretty much shows the same data zoomerabg does but lacks the email ability and such.

#16 mrfesta

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Posted 23 April 2006 - 07:14 PM

http://www.proxy2.de/poll/index.php

Heres the link to the polling software It doesnt offer demographics but they do have a section where they can fill that in, Id have to set it up to try it . Or find a website running it.

I think zoomerang does it all emails and everything and as the plan is to hit myspace it seems a bit much. advanced poll pretty much shows the same data zoomerabg does but lacks the email ability and such.

Maybe with the advanced poll there can be a form section where individuals can have the option to enter their email address to participate in future polls/survey's. Then if things go well and we obtain a list of several thousand email address, down the road we could upgrade to Zoomerang or somthing.

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Posted 25 April 2006 - 04:03 AM

Im hoping I can make our survey page a little more visually stunning than Bens thus I will need a logo or a banner with LESURVEY.COM

I can help with some gfx let me know what size, colors, etc... Here is a quick one for ya

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Posted 27 April 2006 - 01:52 AM

Wow thats awesome ....... I actually Like those colors myself. we havn't really set out how the site will look so you kinda have a free hand in determining how it will look . Ill probably set the site in 800 x 600 because even though high end users use higher resoulutions most common machines still use this older resolution .

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Posted 27 April 2006 - 01:58 AM

Im hoping I can make our survey page a little more visually stunning than Bens thus I will need a logo or a banner with LESURVEY.COM

I can help with some gfx let me know what size, colors, etc... Here is a quick one for ya

Nice! We used the pic on the Myspace group page for the link to the survey. Will probably make the link more visible when the survey goes live.

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Posted 27 April 2006 - 02:04 AM

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Posted 28 April 2006 - 05:13 AM

How far are you guys on the site? Do you have an overall layout or anything? If you need some help getting it going pm me. I can also hook you up with free hosting if you need it. The offer is also good for anyone else reading this who wants to build an immortality related website.

#22 mrfesta

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Posted 28 April 2006 - 10:42 PM

MichaelAnissimov is working on the Survey questions. If you have suggestions PM them to him.

Liveforever22 and myself are preparing the myspace profiles. This is a draft of what we ahve so far: http://www.myspace.com/lesurvey101

For the "John Doe's" I was thinking if having thumbnail pics of all of us contributing to this with a link to our myspace profiles. Of course having your pic/link there is Optional

rjws is looking for someone who knows how to write a script for the survey questions.

#23 mrfesta

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Posted 29 April 2006 - 01:08 AM

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Posted 29 April 2006 - 11:50 AM

Wall the site is www.lesurvey.com its up and running with temp black page and some music . if you look back youll see the link to advanced poll thats the software im using to code the questions, That banner you made is excellent, and may be all I NEED but if you wanna go any extra steps to make the page better your welcome to send me more stuff

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Posted 10 May 2006 - 08:53 PM

Just wanted to say I have not abandoned this project. I spent this past weekend re arranging the apartment to accommodate 8 desktops (which are now up and ready to go). According to MichaelAnissimov, a draft of the survey is almost completed.

I have Final Exams until the 16th but afterwards I'll have a few days off to work on this.

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Posted 10 May 2006 - 09:18 PM

I guess this is a little late if you already got the 8 computers, but here you go anyway.

Why do you need 8 sepreate computers to run this software? Is it because of how the software works or the licence agreement? If so you could probably use some sort of virtual server software to emulate the 8 machines on one. This would save energy, space, heat, cost ect.

If you need 8 diffrent comps because the software uses a lot of CPU ticks or RAM then ignore my comment.

#27 wall

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Posted 13 May 2006 - 06:11 AM

^^^ http://www.microsoft...pc/default.mspx
http://froogle.googl...oring=mrd&hl=en

You would need a hell of a computer to run 8 xp's at the same time but depending on the specs of your desktops you might be able to get away with 2+ at the same time per pc.

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Posted 15 May 2006 - 12:44 PM

I noticed that program has a 45 day free trial edition might give us a good trial first survey until we can get the software

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Posted 16 May 2006 - 02:15 PM

Don't run 8 XPs unless you have to. Run 8 Win98se it wont take much hardware for that. I would say a dual core chip (maybe a dual dual core) and 1.5G ram should do you.

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