Examples and templates for emails that might be sent out during the course running a Salon reside here.
This is a template that can be used when sending out invitations to potential Salon attendees from the ASFs databases:
Greetings!
My name is (name), and I am a volunteer for the Acceleration Studies Foundation. I am emailing you because your name is in our database from having subscribed to the Accelerating Times Newsletter sometime in the past.
I thought you might be interested to hear that I am starting a Future Salon in the (city) area. If our records are in error concerning your residency in the (city) area, I apologize for the inconvenience. Feel free to disregard this email if such is the case, or check out our website (http://accelerating.org/futuresalons.html) to see if there are any Future Salons starting up in your area.
If you are unfamiliar with Future Salons, they are monthly meetings of students, professionals, futurists, and lay people meeting to discuss the ramifications of current and developing trends in science, technology, business, policy, and society. Most meetings feature a talk given by a guest speaker followed by questions and discussion, while other meetings may include book reviews, panel discussions, or even round table discussion guided by member interest or major themes explored in previous months.
We will be meeting every (fourth Friday?) of the month, with our inaugural meeting taking place on (date) at (location). We are very lucky to have (name) give the first talk on the topic of (topic).
If you are interested in attending, I invite you to join our mailing list. This list will act as the main method of communication for the group, and will be best way to keep tabs on when and where meetings will be held. You can join the group by going here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/(*your group*)/.
The Atlanta Future Salon is part of the Future Salon Network; an educational arm of the Acceleration Studies Foundation. The ASF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that seeks to understand our rapidly changing world, and how to best navigate towards the future. You can find more information about the ASF at our site (http://accelerating.org).
I hope you will be able to attend and look forward to meeting you!
(signed)
Speaking Invitation to the LA Future Salon:
Dear Brian,
My friend Melanie Swan introduced me to your insightful website last year. I unfortunately lost the email in my inbox, but I've recently found it again.
I'm writing to ask if you'd be interested in speaking at the Los Angeles chapter http://ucla.accelerating.org/ of the Acceleration Studies Foundation http://accelerating.org/ 's Future Salon Network, to tell us about your work with ThinkArete to date and some of the ways you see that we can better self-actualize in the modern world, using perennial wisdom. We have monthly meetings on the UCLA campus to educate students and professionals in the community about the innovations and impacts due to the accelerating rate of technological and social change, and how this rapid change is affecting the different dimensions of our lives. Many of our students future careers can be influenced by our speakers, so it is a great opportunity to have a positive impact.
We would be honored to have you present at our Friday, July 15th salon, in Kerckhoff Hall at UCLA. We would have you speak from 8:30 to 9:30pm, including perhaps 20 mins of Q&A with the audience of students and non-student professionals (perhaps 50-60 in attendance). We usually have 1-2 speakers for each meeting. We have had many distinguished speakers from local universities and companies at our meetings, including Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen of JPL in 2004, who is also an adviser to our nonprofit. You can find past speakers in the "2005, 2004, 2003, 2002" links at our website above.
As a non-profit organization we can't presently pay an honorarium, but we can reimburse your $7 UCLA parking expense and would love to pay for your dinner if you can join us in Westwood after 9:30pm for an additional hour after your talk. Please feel free to make your dinner decision at the time of your talk.
We hope that you will be able to join us this July, and we thank you for your excellent, inspiring work.
Warm regards,
John Smart
President, Acceleration Studies Foundation
Sample 2, Speaker Invite:
Invitation to Speak at ASF's Los Angeles Future Salon
Dear Dr. Lombardo,
I’m writing to ask if you’d be interested in speaking at the Los Angeles chapter of the Acceleration Studies Foundation’s Future Salon Network. We have monthly meetings on the UCLA campus (co-hosted by the UCLA Future Salon student group) to educate students and professionals in the community about the impact of the accelerating rate of technological and social change, and how this rapid change is affecting the different dimensions of our lives.
We would be honored to have you present on the future evolution of human psychology, the human mind, and consciousness, or a similar topic that you prefer. We usually have 1-3 speakers for each meeting, and I think you have enough interesting content for a solo talk, if you are comfortable with that. Would Friday June 17th from 8-10pm at the UCLA campus work for you?
As a non-profit organization, we are unfortunately unable to pay travel expenses. However, the ASF President, John Smart, would like to offer you his guest bedroom for the weekend.
We hope that you will be able to join us and look forward to working with you.
Warm regards,
Iveta Brigis
Iveta Brigis, Executive Director
Acceleration Studies Foundation
2227 Amirante Drive, San Pedro CA 90732
Office Phone: 310.831.4191
Mobile Phone: 518.965.3593
Fax: 310.732.2285
ivetabrigis@accelerating.org
Sample 3, Speaker Invite:
Subject: UCLA Future Salon Speaker Invitation
Dear Dr. Yang,
Thank you kindly for the conversation today. Your work combining gene therapy, stem cells and dendritic cells to show the value of an "instructive immunotherapy" paradigm is truly brilliant. We are hopeful that it will continue to make progress, and continue to gain attention in the research and lay communities.
I'm writing to ask if you'd be interested in speaking at the Los http://ucla.accelerating.org/ Angeles chapter of the Acceleration http://accelerating.org/ Studies Foundation's Future Salon Network, to tell us about your work to date and some of the next steps, including any hopes you have for the field of instructive immunotherapy that you'd like to share. We have monthly meetings on the UCLA campus to educate students and professionals in the community about the innovations and impacts due to the accelerating rate of technological and social change, and how this rapid change is affecting the different dimensions of our lives. Many of our students’ future careers can be influenced by our speakers, so it is a great opportunity to have a positive impact.
We would be honored to have you present at our Friday, May 20th salon, in Kerckhoff Hall at UCLA. We would have you speak from 8:30 to 9:30pm, including perhaps 20 mins of Q&A with the audience of students and professionals (perhaps 50-60 in attendance). We usually have 1-2 speakers for each meeting. We have had many distinguished scientists and technogists from local universities and companies at our meetings, including Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen of JPL in 2004, who is also an adviser to our nonprofit. You can find past speakers in the "2005, 2004, 2003, 2002" links at our website above.
As a non-profit organization we can't presently pay an honorarium, but we can reimburse your $7 UCLA parking expense and would love to pay for your dinner if you can join us in Westwood after 9:30pm for an additional hour after your talk. Please feel free to make your dinner decision at the time of your talk.
We hope that you will be able to join us this May, and we thank you again for your excellent, inspiring work.
Warm regards,
John Smart
Sample 4: Speaker Invite:
Subject: Invitation to Speak at the Bay Area's Future Salon
Dear XXX,
I noticed on your webpage that you would be speaking on May 18, 2005 at the .
My name is YYY. Since you are possibly going to already be in the bay area that week, I was wondering if you would be willing to come and give a talk at a futurist group I belong to next month on Friday night, 7-9:00pm, May 20th (preferably, or May 19 if that's better scheduling-wise).
More specifically, the group is called the Bay Area Future Salon ( http://futuresalon.org ) The group is not at all commercial were under the non-profit umbrella of the Acceleration Studies Foundation (http://accelerating.org/), thus it would be a labor of love rather than pay (though please note there is no charge for those who attend, and there is free hot food and drinks including coffee, wine and beer). We're mostly a collection of engineers, scientists, programmers, technologists, entrepreneurs and other assorted futurist oriented people who come together once a month to honor a thought leader by given them a podium.
For example, the last two months speakers were:
April 15th MIT director of The Center for Bits and Atoms about Personal Fabrication, Professor Neil Gershenfeld talked (on Personal Fabrication technology)& March 18th was stem cell expert, biologist, entrepreneur and author Christopher Scott talked about his upcoming book: Criminals in White Coats: The future of human stem cell research.
I was wondering if you would be interested in talking about your recently published theories on the -.
Thank you much for your consideration.
YYY
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