Publicize Your Reunion

Tell the world about your reunion. There are so many channels to publicize it.
1. Tell your friends about progress using social networking sites: Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc.
2. Create a special "high school reunion group" on these sites and invite your friends to it and update it with basic reunion information.
3. Place notices in your local newspaper.
4. Write op-ed pieces for larger newspapers. Perhaps an article about the significance of your reunion as related to the social climate now vs. then - or something like that.
5. Write a notice for your community access television station about the reunion: date, place, time.
6. Take advantage of any media outlets classmates might have. We actually were on the Today Show with Al Roeker talking to him on national tv about the reunion, thanks to our classmate who was director of the show.
7. Send regular email blasts to found classmates on your list.
8. Create a website with reunion information, (more on this later.)
9. Advertise it in http://www.classmates.com/
10. Talk it up! Use the telephone and spread the word the old-fashioned way.
11. Snail mail? Only for those who don't have email. But keep track of everyone's addresses in your database, it may come in handy after the reunion.

Do you have any other clever ways to publicize your reunion? Please share with us.

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