We are replacing our usual weekly broadcast message with a special appeal this week. Most of our readers will know about our ambitious plans for a Left Coast Eisteddfod in Portland Oregon in August 2009. In order to make this event as big a success as possible and a true showcase for the musical and artistic talent which Wales and the Welsh American community possesses in abundance, we are asking for your help in promoting the event.

The following ideas will only take up a moment of your time and will produce enormously beneficial results. Please consider helping us if you can.

1. If you are a blogger please link to the following page from your blog and we will reciprocate:- http://americymru.blogspot.com/2008/11/left-coast-eisteddfod-starts... . If you are registered with Entrecard please drop on us ( once again we will reciprocate )

2. If you are a member of any other social networking or bookmarking sites ( MySpace, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Digg, ,Twitter,etc ) please consider linking to the short story url or favoriting it on your profile:- http://americymru.blogspot.com/2008/11/left-coast-eisteddfod-starts...

3. We would also invite you to consider joining Mixx and the "Wales: The Welsh Mixx" group and voting us up on that site. Mixx can be found here:- Mixx.

4. Feel free to use any other means at your disposal to help us publicize this event. If you have any novel ideas or suggestions please post in the comments below.

We have many more exciting plans for the Eisteddfod which will be announced in due course. If anyone has any suggestions or comments or queries please append them to this post. In answer to a few issues already raised via email...YES multiple entries are permitted in both language categories and YES we will be exploring the possibilities of publishing an anthology of the beat entries with one of the various online publishing companies. It will probably be available in both downloadable and hardcopy editions. Watch this space for further developments and announcements.