SF Natural History Series

Contact

If you are interested in learning more, please email adrian at acotter@nonsensical.com.

Background

I am looking for a new co-coordinator to help run the San Francisco Natural History Series. We organize one talk a month (usually with the exception of December) around the concerns of San Francisco natural history — you can learn more about the talks (if you don’t already know) at http://sfnhs.com.

The list below is the whole range of things the coordinators do — the duties which you would divide with me.

I would also be interested in having more single-minded collaborators to do more with either the website or Facebook — if you are interested in that, please send me an email.

• Running sfnhs.com
  • posting new talks
  • writing up lecture notes
• Sending out emails (twice a month)
• Managing the email list
• Managing the Twitter account (@sfnaturalist)
• Managing a Facebook page
• Posting events to other services (I’ve gone back and forth on the usefulness of this)
• Sending out postcards (we’ve not done this in a while, but typically we did this twice a year)
• Finding speakers
  • Needs Persistence and patience – finding how best to talk to potential speakers
• Arranging dates – with both speaker and venue
• A/V setup
  • beforehand — also making sure of the speakers needs and equipment
  • having all the cables
• Setting up the space (we have more to do when at the Randall)
  • projector to computer, speakers, or whatever the speaker might need, email list signup, donation jar (when applicable)
• MC – introducing the speaker and the series
• (temporary) Looking for places to hold talks from October through at least part of next year.

Things to Know

• For the moment are a wandering series, while the Randall undergoes reconstruction – we don’t know exactly when we’ll go back and we don’t have a definite place for the months to come (we’ve so far been at the Exploratorium and Green Apple Books on the Park)
• We don’t have a budget per se (the Randall has helped us defray costs for postcards, and when we are at the Randall do give out a small speaker fee)

Challenges

• Doing promotion better/smarter (without any additional funds, and limited time)
• Growing our promotion lists
• Making sure there is a clear understanding between coordinators about roles and what they can accomplish