Re: [TheThinkTank] Bike Collectives, an International Effort Deserves Press

-- Sincerely, Jonathan Morrison Executive Director Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org Get Addicted to Crank! http://www.slcbikecollective.org/crank/ The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households. On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Rich Points rich@richpoints.com wrote: > Collectives, > As you know there are over 110 collectives in North America. As I learned > at Bike Bike last year no two bike collectives are the same. Despite our > differences we have a common goal, we're all working in our own way to get > more people riding bikes more often. > > That being the case I think our work merits national and international > media attention. I've been thinking for a while about how we might get our > work into the media. > Bike Bike offers us a great opportunity to do this. Before Community > Cycles heads out for this years conference we'll distribute a press release > discussing the conference, why we're going with an emphasis on the > international movement. I think if all the collectives attending this years > conference should do something similar. Maybe we can create some buzz and > get picked up by the AP or something. > > I personally would like to see the bike collectives to be as well known > other re-use places like Salvation Army, Value Village and others. When it > comes time to get rid of a bike or pick one up on the cheap the local bike > collective should be first on the list. > > I think using the national media is a great way to show the world that bike > collectives are more than your local co-op. > > What do you guys think? > > -- > Rich Points > Community Cycles Director > http://CommunityCycles.org http://communitycycles.org/ > Rich@CommunityCycles.org > 720-565-6019 > > _______________________________________________ > Thethinktank mailing list > Thethinktank@bikecollectives.org > > http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.o... >