[Severedfifth-streetteam] Let's get this Street Team on the road

[Jono Bacon]

Hi everyone,

Well, its been around three weeks since Severed Fifth kicked off and
although I mentioned the Street Team in the announcement, I have so far
remained fairly silent about it. Some of you may be wondering what the
plans are. so I wanted to send out an initial email first to kick off
the Street Team. The reasons for the delay have largely been getting the
primary site up and running and also beginning recording of the debut
Severed Fifth album 'Denied By Reign' - there is a certain running order
in terms of getting the right things in place, and now it is time for
the Street Team.

Firstly, I want to say a huge thank-you to each of you who have signed
up to this list. You are the forefathers of the Severed Fifth Street
Team; an entity that is essential for the success of Severed Fifth both
as a project and as a vehicle to forge forward the new music economy
that I have been talking about. The only way we can make this new
economy viable is for there to be a lot of 'push' and to demonstrate an
ubiquity in the message of a free culture project such as Severed Fifth.
In other words, we need to let the entire freakin' world know about
Severed Fifth, and the only way we can do this is to get all hands on
deck across the Internet and across the world. We need to come together
and seek out every possible opportunity to let the world know about
Severed Fifth and what is going on with the project.

Although I have a general structure in my mind for how the Street Team
works, the main intention is to allow it to grow naturally and not force
it into a pre-defined box. The Street Team is a community of people who
are passionate about Severed Fifth and about free culture and who want
to help advocate it and spread the word, and my main aim is to be able
to support you all in being able to do this instead of producing a
boatload of bureaucracy that you have to wade through. I would much
rather provide you with some materials to use as part of your Street
Team work and provide some guidance, words of encouragement and some
interesting competitions to get the word out there.

I am also really keen to make the Street Team a unique and identifiable
family. I want to make each and every one of you wonderful people feel
like you are part of a friendly, welcoming, fun community based around
Severed Fifth. With this in mind I would love to hear your ideas on just
how I can make you all feel warm and fuzzy about the project and being
involved. Some of my plans include producing some merchandise to sell
and give away for the Street Team, organising events, rewarding
achievements in cool and interesting ways, and more. In the announcement
I referred to the Street Team as a family, and I really mean that.

The response to Severed Fifth has been, frankly, overwhelming, and I am
so incredibly excited about the potential we have in our hands with the
project. We really have the chance to shake things up, and each and
every one of you, and there are quite a few of you who have joined this
list, are going to set the stage for our future successes.

So, to kick things off, lets get to know each other. Could you all reply
to this mail and say who you are, where you live, what kind of things
you would like to do to spread the word about Severed Fifth and anything
else you would like to say. Let's get this show on the road...

	Jono

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Jono Bacon
www.severedfifth.com / www.jonobacon.org