Welcome to the hRelease Workspace

• This is the home page for the hRelease Project (aka Social Media Press Release).
• hRelease is a community effort to define a new format for press releases via a community standard microformat
• Read more about this project

Get a wiki account first

• follow this link to register (please use you full name and e-mail address)

How to use this workspace

• Please feel free to add or modify pages -- even this one -- as you see fit. That's the idea of a Workspace.
• If you'd like an introductory tour of the Socialtext Workspace, start here.
• Visit Recent Changes every once in a while to see what's new
• Make links by putting words or phrases in square brackets. Click on Edit This Page to see some examples.
• Subscribe to updates: on each page look for the orange RSS button. Also, you can subscribe to the feed for all recent changes.

How to participate

• Join the discussion list on Google Groups
• Add your name to the people directory

Blog, listen, read

• If you're blogging about this, please use the hRelease as tag
• See who's blogging/tagging the hRelease
• Survey regarding what we call it.
• Survey Results for above survey

Modern Examples (Use Cases from the real world)

• Pew Internet & American Life Project
• SocialMediaClub.org Launch press release
• An SMR from Germany

Press Release Working Group

• On the heels of the first Social Media Club Meeting, the group will launch The Working Group (TWG) to begin development of the hRelease, a Microformat standard for modernizing the traditional press release for a Web-centric world. The official press release is currently in draft mode. Please include your name to the list below if you'd like to volunteer for TWG*. Those who signed up thus far include:

Working Group (Renewed Oct. 2007)

• Shannon Whitley, Whitley Media

Original Working Group

Announcements

• The official launch of Social Media Club - August 16, 2006
• New Media Release: Important Collaboration Update - Chris Heuer

Topics

• listen to Chris Heuer & Shel Holtz's discussion on hRelease, July 14, 2006
• listen to pr 2.0 gang discussion on hRelease, July 14, 2006
• Topic Outline - Constantin Basturea
• Key Issues - Chris Heuer

People

• who's writing here

Help

• Questions? Problems? Ask for help.
• See all pages

Drafts

• hRelease