Promote the Sharehood

If you like the Sharehood and want to help us spread the good word about it - thank you! Word of mouth is a great way to get the word out and help people build local communities and share stuff with their neighbours. Besides just telling your neighbours and friends about us, there's a number of things you can do..

The Simple Stuff

We have a Sharehood Facebook page! If you are into social networking, you can "like" us, link with us, find out about upcoming events and help us spread the word by telling and inviting your friends to join.

We often have journalists asking to interview members of the Sharehood who are active in their local communities. If you're up for being interviewed on behalf of the Sharehood, please get in touch with us and let us know.

If you're interested in carrying around some Sharehood info to give to interested folk, or distributing little stacks of our postcards around shops in your local area, let us know and we can send you some.

We've got a few gorgeous posters now too, which you can write details in on if you're organising an event in your hood. Click on the poster you like for a high res version for printing.

For the Serious Sharehood Advocates

Craft markets, community festivals, sustainability fairs and other events are a great way to promote the Sharehood to like minded folk. Sometimes these events offer free stalls to not-for-profit community organisations (like us!). We've put together a stall kit, to help you out if you want to host a Sharehood stall at a community event in your area. Please let us know if you want to do this so we don't double up. We can support you to have a stall and talk to people if you haven't before, and arrange to get some photos for the website too!

If there's any kind of conference or day of workshops where you wish there was a talk on the Sharehood, you could always run one yourself. We've put together a document that hopefully has all the info you'll need, as well as a powerpoint presentation with a bunch of screenshots. If you are giving any kind of talk about the Sharehood, make sure and let us know about it so we can put it up on our talks page.

Maybe you're a writer and could submit an article about the Sharehood to a newspaper, magazine or blog you know, or if you know journalists or editors who you could ask to write about us, go for it and let us know.

If you're interested in doing this stuff on an ongoing basis, you may also be interested in starting a Sharehood regional group to help you.

If you can think of other ways of promoting the Sharehood through your existing networks and community, we would love to hear from you about your ideas.