Taking stock

20/2/2013

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So, after rushing into everything as usual, I sat back today and wondered what I'd done.  Answering forum posts, manning the Facebook page, adding to the website, posting the Project's links wherever I could, and reading xylitol links is hard work.  I know it's always like this at the beginning of any project but I felt really tired today.

We talked it over and decided that grief is a contributory factor to how I feel right now.

There is a small group of us but, mainly, it's me doing most of the slog whilst the others come up with ideas and advice.  That's fine really because Project Eddy was my idea.

I expect things to calm down over the next few days.  I hope so because I'm keen to get more into the campaign.
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New Project Eddy Facebook page

20/2/2013

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A community Facebook page is a little different to an individual Facebook page and I felt completely disorientated at first.  But I was determined to start it and began on 15 February.

We invited friends initially, then trawled through our email lists - I think councils and water boards even got invited because we had emailed complaints in the past - and then began to look at pet forums.

Being a member of a forum is nothing new to me.  But joining quite a few in one go showed the vagaries of registrations and membership rules.  Most of them were fine, but a couple weren't at all and I was accused of breaking rules and spamming because I linked Project Eddy's new Facebook page.  Trying to explain that PE (Project Eddy) was a genuine cause, on a community page, and certainly not a commercial enterprise fell on deaf ears.  One of them banned me "forever".  I just moved on and found other, friendlier forums.  Of course the members asked me all the ins and outs of xylitol and I simply wanted to point them to the PE page so that I could move on to the next forum!  Most of the members were incredibly friendly though and happy that I was passing on an important message.  And the majority knew nothing about xylitol.

I also found pet pages on FB and, initially, posted a couple of sentences and a link directly onto those pages.  That is until I got a warning from Facebook for spamming!

Sometimes it can be hard to get a genuine message out there!
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