In brief

The best ways to publicize your THATCamp in order to recruit participants: email, web forums, Twitter and other social media, fliers, and by keeping THATCamp Central apprised of your plans.

General publicity advice

There’s an infinite amount of publicity you can do for a THATCamp. If you have willing helpers, put them on publicity duty — draft an e-mail announcements with the link to the registration form and ask your helpers to e-mail it to people, organizations, and departments who might be interested. They can do likewise for topic-focused forums and listservs. Be sure that your announcement carries a notice such as “Please distribute widely” so that others are encouraged to spread it around.

The #thatcamp hashtag gets lots of traffic and is regularly perused by THATCamp junkies, so if you make sure to have a Twitter account and use the hashtag #thatcamp, the word will be sure to get out. The @thatcamp account also regularly retweets tweets from THATCamp accounts.

Not everyone uses Twitter, of course. Don’t forget to advertise locally. Chris Raymond, our designer, has thoughtfully created a set of THATCamp flier templates (.zip) at thatcamp.org/docs/thatcamp-fliers.zip in .docx and .tif format that you can customize and post around campus or around town. The blue version is depicted above.

Finally, make sure that we here at THATCamp Central have the correct dates and places for your THATCamp — keep the registry updated and/or email info@thatcamp.org. We send out a newsletter, creatively named THATCamp News, about once a month, and we make sure to keep the home page of thatcamp.org updated with the most current