So how are we marketing this event?

1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. Hyper Japan
4. Asking Kimono Sellers to send email to their customers
5. Contacting Japanese societies to relay the information to their members
6. Blog with news, photos, stories and updates

Creating a community means getting the word out there to the right people and not giving up. Kimono De Jack will be held once a month and the first one might not have too many people but it will catch on just like it did in Japan (started with 11 people and now ‘many’)

If you wear kimono or are just interested come along, you don’t actually NEED a kimono (but you will want one after the day)

And also acceptance. I have never hidden the fact that socially, I am a bit out of the ordinary. I grab at any chance to don a full kimono or outfits of the gothic persuasion and funnily enough, this tendency does not affect my abilities as a consultant or developer. But some seem to think so

Facebook updates and tweets to the outside world can be misconstrued by sensitive businesses and I can’t always think of every angle to what I say in a random facebook update. It’s probably not about you, unless I call you out by name. But I can’t stop you thinking it, we all have a victim complex from time to time.

So on twitter and facebook Hairfreax is personal and matches my hobbies – you will know what my next outfit is, when I washed my hair and be able to see how my cats are doing or new hairpiece designs. Kidsontalks on twitter (and soon facebook) will be business related musing, and people who are more business friends and connections (who probably don’t really want updates on my cats diet) will be added there.

I apologise to those who have to put up with both, and those who I have removed from my personal facebook page.

I don’t have a lot of time, I work 24/7 and also weekends (today is a bank holiday but I am still at work with a list of to-dos and programming) so this is a slow process.