Dear friends,
The Freeschool Community of Olympia is getting ready for their 8th and 9th year of Freeschool Classes! The Freeschool would love to help publicize your class, tutor opportunity or event if it is free of charge with no donations required or accepted at the class or event.
We publicize your class (or your tutor opportunity) on our twitter account (which has over 2,400 followers and growing fast), through our Natural Learning newspaper (which has a circulation of over 5000 and through our website) which sometimes has hundreds of hits (people reading it) per day.
The Freeschool Community also works with a radio station, podcast and online film and video series here at FemPeacePower.org which will occasionally have interviews with Freeschool Community facilitators and many more activists and social justice organizers.
You can also Subscribe to our itunes stations and search for our podcast episodes in Itunes here: http://tinyurl.com/link2itunes
To Start Using the Faster, Self-Sign up Process for Giving Classes at the Freeschool Community in 2009-2010 here is what we need you to do:
[Some of these things you may have already done, so just skip to the steps you have not done].
Step #1. Register at the Freeschool’s Social network: http://www.peacecommunities.ning.com – If you have any problems registering please contact us.
Make sure to upload some kind of photo (it can be of you, your project or any object or place) onto your profile.
Step #2. Once you do that you will be able to join the Group called:
Free Classes and Free Workshops That You Would Like to Share.
Join that group.
Step #3. Once you are in that group click on
When you start a Discussion you should title the discussion the name of your class or event and Post the Description of the group and all the details.
If you have more than one class, make a new discussion for each class. Make sure that you spellcheck your class before posting it.
Once you do that we will place a link to that discussion group onto the Freeschool calendar and website.
Why do we do it this way?
Many reasons:
a. It puts the power in your hands to instantly update, change or cancel your class without needing volunteers to update it, spell check it or reword it.
b. It also enables you to add photos, videos and much more making the class more attractive to students due to the fact that we live in an increasingly audio/video society in which decisions are based on audio/video promotion of the events.
c. We want to begin using our online community to promote free events worldwide. Even when you leave the Freeschool. You can use that forum to promote your free events outside of Olympia.
d. It enables people to discuss the class openly long after it is done. Even people who didn’t attend or who are in other countries. Our desire is to expand the Freeschool movement worldwide.
e. It enables you to send a public message of thanks to our Freeschool volunteers when they help to promote your class or your tutor opportunity. When freeschool volunteers feel appreciated, they tend to help with the Freeschool longer, which helps to promote your class or your tutor opportunity.
Please keep in mind events that ask for or require donations are not eligible to be listed on the Freeschool space calendar. We are a Freeschool free class movement, not a Donations-requested school Movement, no offense.
Again, we can publicize your free-of-charge class or event if it is free of charge with no donations requested.
Thanks.
If you have any questions about any of these steps you can call us from 11am-11pm, 7 days a week. 
Keep up the great work,
Love, peace and free classes for everyone,
