<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Here are highlights from the world of Tor marketing, communications and outreach for September and October: </span></p>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Proposals In Process and Follow-Up:</span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><span>RFA</span> Proposal - accepted.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Journalist Training / Education - Knight Foundation - still being considered by Knight. Follow up conversations are ongoing. </span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Communications Proposal - Ford Foundation - accepted and work has begun with Spitfire Strategies</span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Knight Foundation - </span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Continued follow up on additional funding and new ideas.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Attended <span>ONA</span> and presented a lighting talk on Tor and meeting with Knight Foundation people about next steps.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Ongoing relationship building and outreach.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Working with Knight on a possible hands-on workshop for <span>SXSW</span></span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Following up on networking opportunities with other Knight partners - these are based on introductions from Knight.</span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><b></b>“Upcoming Tor Events” on the blog - continued to be updated as I see things come over tor-internal. </span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Continued fielding and responding to media request through <span>execdir</span> - requests are being captured in a tracking database.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Joint Task Force on Virtual Economies - participating on a 3 month joint task force sponsored by <span>ICMEC</span> and Thomas Reuters. Participating on two working groups - Human Rights and Law Enforcement. </span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">2013 Annual Report - engaged our designed from last year, I have a quote to begin work which I need to float by Andrew for approval. Content gathering has started.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Tor Website Project - offered to take the lead, met with a volunteer who is also willing to donate some time to helping this project.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><span>CRM</span> Project - importing contacts and cleaning up input fields continues. </span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Tor Store Vendor - decided to stay with <span>Printfection</span>. As mentioned at the <span>dev</span> meeting I've found a new vendor - I'm still not 100% convinced so I've reached out to EFF to find out who their vendor is. </span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Tor Stuff in the World - sent to several people on the team Tor shirts, stickers and <span>webcam</span> clings. This process will become much less laborious when our fulfillment vendor is in place.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">EFF Relay Challenge - had a few calls with Eva and Colin C. regarding this event. Offered help, Tor swag, etc.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"> 2014 Dev Meetings - </span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Winter - waiting for dates from Knight, I’m constantly in contact with them on this. If there is no response within the next week I will be working on a Plan B solution just in case.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Summer - sent a proposal to Mozilla (Paris) to sponsor us - initially they were very excited and agreeable - follow up continues and I will let you know once this is confirmed</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Travel Sponsors - beginning thinking/planning of who I can reach out to help offset our travel costs for the <span>dev</span> meetings. Suggestions welcomed.</span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"> Tor Sticker Solutions with <span>Unixstickers</span> - I’ve been working with Andrea at <span>unixstickers</span>.com about them producing our stickers and managing the fulfillment.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"> Journalist Training in Helsinki - conducted a 2 hour training session in Helsinki along with a radio interview.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"> Moved into our new offices - still need desks but we have a frig! :)</span></li>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Focus for November...</span></p>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">EFF Relay Challenge - following up with EFF</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Proposals Follow Up:</span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Knight Foundation Request to “Add” to current proposal</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Ford Foundation / Spitfire - Communications Training</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Knight Foundation - Winter Dev Meeting</span></li>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Tor Swag - get the team going to Ecuador set up with lots of Tor goodies.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Proposal Pipeline - top for the next 60 days</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Solidify Dates and Locations for 2014 Dev Meetings</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Kick off Tor Website (UPDATE) Project</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Complete Tor Store Updates </span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Complete Timeline for 2013 Annual Report</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Conduct Open House Events</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Participate in Joint Task Force Meetings</span></li></ol><span style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(35,35,35);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px">Ongoing:</span><br>
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<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Updating Tor Event on Blog</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><span>CMR</span> Building</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Press Requests Tracking</span></li></ol></ol><span style="font-size:13px;letter-spacing:0px">Things I hope to get to before the end of the year:</span><br>
<ol><li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Tor Brochures</span></li><li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Tor "Press Kit"</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Contribute to Tor in the News</span></li><li style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">
<span style="letter-spacing:0px">Get a desk in the office ;)</span></li></ol>
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</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">On a personal note the Fall semester is quickly wrapping up (early December) with several research papers due and lots exciting new <span>learnings</span>. Anyone interested in what I'm doing on this front, let me know - happy to share.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Thanks everyone for your continued support - </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">
<span style="letter-spacing:0px"><span>Kel</span></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><font size="1" color="#009900"><b>Kelley <span>Misata</span></b></font><div><font size="1" color="#009900"><b>Outreach and Communications</b></font></div>
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