Resources page NEW

This is a temporary downloads page to make these documents readily available to you right away. They will be properly integrated inro the new website in due course, and you'll be re-directed from here if necessary.
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Notes:
Contents:

Symposium resources

Content

V-2 Manual (UK version) as four Word docs compressed into a single zip file:

(The easiest way to get the whole manual IF you know what to do with a ZIP file!)

V-2 Manual (UK version) as individual Word docs:
V-2 Manual (UK version) as individual PDFs (PRINT MORE RELIABLY!):

V-2 Background References (U.S. Version unedited) - only one member of a Symposium team needs a printout of this to have at the back of the room.
Download either MS Word or PDF version:

(Note: For the old V1 manual please see Resources Archive Page.)

IMPORTANT:

  1. Some documents on this page still relate to V-1 - please feel free to update any of them and send them in for others to use. In particular if you have UK statistical information to supplement the V-2 data, please let us know, with references so that we can follow it up, verify and reference it. Thanks!
  2. Only Part A has actually been edited for the UK (Thank you so much, Pippa, who did the bulk of this. I finished it off, and any remaining 'translation' errors or omissions are mine. Jon) The additional notes, appendices etc have simply been re-formatted for A4 with some re-pagination. There may be a second UK release with further edits in due course, possibly after the first revised ATD V2 manual has been issued.
  3. DVDs are available here - there may be a delay in actually sending them out, so IF YOU HAVE URGENT NEED OF ONE, PLEASE CONTACT THE BTCI OFFICE.
    1. The standard DVDs (for use in a DVD player) are available now from the BTCI online store, (and also from the ATD online store for $20+shipping).
    2. The UK Keynote version (for Apple Mac) is also available from BTCI. Please ensure you (a) have Keynote installed, (b) install the Shannon font (supplied on the DVD), and (c) copy the Keynote presentation file OFF the DVD onto your hard disk and eject the DVD before running the presentation.
    3. The PowerPoint version (for PC users) is now available from the US ATD store and will be available from BTCI in due course, when we have obtained a master and made appropriate edits for the UK.
UK statistics documents:

Hosting & Production:

Handouts etc

Here are the current versions - new ones will be substituted (and flagged as 'new' as soon as they become available).

Getting organised

Promotion

Some Sample Flyers

Here are some relatively recent sample flyers to give you some ideas. Do remember that flyer design is hugely about who you are inviting. Piles of flyers at events or in cafes etc have proved to be extremely inefficient -- a flyer placed in someone's hand with a smile and a conversation is 1000 times more effective, as is a flyer emailed out to a pre-selected group by someone they know and respect!

This is another area in active development - do contact Diane Sharp if you have marketing-related experience, and would like to be part of the team reviewing all of our promotional material in the near future.

A Sample Press Release

It's really important, if you are trying to get local press coverage, to (a) link it to something that makes it 'news', especially linking the big issues with something local; and (b) get the press release right, to make it easy for a journalist to turn it into a story. Think 'cut and paste' here! This example is a good format:

Coming soon...

Updated symposium handouts

Sample flyers and other promotional material

Guidelines on how to create an accessible symposium
 

Other resources

The Beastie Eye - our bi-monthly newsletter

Miscellaneous

See also...

 

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