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Why doesn't he make this a Google Form and respond to all cold-emails with the form link?
by calcsam 11y ago
Why doesn't he make this a Google Form and respond to all cold-emails with the form link?
- JeffreyKaine 11y agoWe could turn this into an interesting side project. sign up with this stuff as a "profile" of sorts, then update your profile with anything news worthy. Charge for exposure to journalists.
- 6stringmerc 11y agoOr, conversely, set it up as a form, have an Editor review the text, and only allow the submitter 3 "undo" edits before sending it through the portal. The submitter could pick a maximum # (3-5?) of targets from a list that has agreed to participate in the format (e.g. publication editors) so there's some element of exclusivity. Then the editors can respond within a timeframe of "interested" or "pass" and if more than one is interested, the first one who replied gets the opportunity, and if they don't capitalize within 3-5-7 days, it goes to the next (in an ideal world). This way there's value added for the submitter (prompts, editing for errors and audience, pathway to exposure) and a buffer intake system for editors who want good, new, exclusive content of this sort. I could probably sketch this out on a whiteboard in an afternoon, would be pretty fun. ...but since I'm writing this out publicly, as part of a group musing an idea, if I find anybody whole-cloth takes this concept and uses it without collaboration or any semblence of attribution, karma will catch you, and your future will be cursed and doomed in equal parts. Don't violate the Bill & Ted rule of "Be excellent to each other"
- martin-adams 11y agoI was thinking along the same lines. If the problem is that there is no structure to acquire the data he needs to do his job, then isn't that one of the use cases that computers are very, very good at. Make a submission form, let them fill out the answers.