Meeting/Call Schedule
Next Full COM-Media Social Web/Media planning conference call:
- Monday, June 7, Time: 7pm EST, 6pm CST, 5pm MST, 4pm PST
- Numbers: 712-432-0075, code: 388105#
- Host access code (for first one on the call): 564471#
- Etherpad for taking shared notes: http://ussfdetroit.org/COMM
Comm/Media Work Plans
Communications/Work Plan and Status Updates
Communications/Project Recruitment Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZHSTWNH
Website Work Space--January 2010
COMM-Media USSF Informational Flow/Organizational Diagram (below)
Tentative Diagram- in planning.
Current Logos, Promotional Materials and Digital Packets
See Category:Graphics for flyers, graphics, print ad & logo downloads
Packets coming soon: General Info/Outreach, "Feed the Roots grassroots fundraising packet, Organizing Toolkit
Some design folks have offered ongoing & project-based design support, including
- Design Action (who did the original USSF artwork & logo)
- Left Turn Mag, contact is Vasudha
- Just Seeds
Other folks coming who are said to have been interested include:
- Trust Your Struggle Collective
- Beehive Collective
- Radical Designs
On-going Projects
- FAQs for website--help us build a list of questions and answers to put on the website, flyers, etc!
- Save the Date draft
- Website Committee--please answer committee questions
- Help us spread the word! Join the USSF Writers Network
Info, Data, Story Collection Pool
- (reference pool of articles, stories, testimonials and events)
- Press and People Stories Main Page (ready for public)
Social Web Tools in Use
Current platforms in Use. Strategic Planning in process..
- bit.ly account Link Shortening & link/click-tracking:
- bit.ly search helpful in tracking links clicked through twitter/facebook/friendfeed posts.
- Facebook Fan Page started Jan 10. Jan 30: 2,775 fans, Feb 10: 5,235, Feb 25: 6,338 fans, March 8: 6,808 fans. March 21: 7,372 fans, March 26: 7,513 fans.
- Facebook "Group" March 21 has 2,430
- Facebook Person Profile Feb 21: 1,527 friends, Feb 24: 1,815, March 8: 2,364 friends. March 21: 3,328 friends. March 26: 3,901 friends.
- Region/Issue/City Affiliate groups we have relationships with (see below)
- Twitter page Our Hashtags: #USSF.. February 24: 780 followers. March 8: 919. March 21: 960 followers
- "Tweetdeck" team tweeting platform
- cotweet team tweeting platform Current "On Duty" Team of: David, Christina B, Veronica H.
- "Twitter Search" Search what's being said about USSF
- Klout Gives us feedback on our Twitter reach & influence
- USSF.Status.Net (the platform that runs http://Identi.ca)
- World Social Forum TV channel WSF video sharing platform, we're in contact with their organizers.
- YouTube Channel
- USSF Community Video channel
- Flickr Page
Other prospects?
- BlackPlanet (someone offered), Znet (someone has offered), Tumblr, Blip TV, Vimeo, SoundCloud Audip, Frontline SMS, CafeMom, a woman named Calvo offerd to hold down a USSF community there. Flavors.me(to gather social web streams/online identities - ie: twitter, fb, etc), goodreads (book recommendations, potential online library sharing)
Blog Network/Blogosphere:
- not a current plan
- weblog test
- microblogging test
The USSF Online Presence Consists Of
* Our presence on the Internet: An overview
* Official 'Organize' Online Network
* USSF Email Outreach Using our database to send out mass-emails on a scheduled and planned basis.
* Organizers planning & information wiki
* Press about the USSF and Peoples' Stories (video, radio, blog)
* Press and Peoples' Stories about the USSF
* #Social Web Tools in Use (Presence we hold official in various Social Web Networks)
- * Facebook self-organized groups & events:
- San Antoninio Road to Detroit Facebook group contact: Diana Lopez & Genaro Lopez-Rendon
- Lansing Area facebook group contact: Priyanka Pathak:
- Washtenaw County facebook page contact: Andrew Dalack
- Bay Area's PMA facebook event contact: Megan Swoboda, Ruben Solis Garcia
- Houston Facebook Group contact: john herrera
- Chicago ARC09 USSF Event contact: jhonathan gomez
- * Self-organized Organizing websites:
Communications-Media Working Group Team and Roles
National Communications Coordinator
- Adele N
Co-Chairs Communications-Media WG
- Karlos G
- Scott B
- Alternate: David M
'(National)
- Reg M
- Lottie S
Regional PR Point People:
USSF Writers’ Network
(list not available yet)
- National Writers' Network Planner: Jackie S
USSF Wiki/Data/Training Expert
National Planner: MarkDilley
USSF Online Info, Social Web, Multimedia
- National Planner: David M
- Lara V (wiki, news archive, online research)
Social Web
- David M.,
- Martin M
- B Loewe
- Veronica H
- Twitter" Cotweet.com Team
- B Loewe
- Karlos, Adele, Mark, David, Sylvia, Adrienne
- Mark D
- Identi.ca Open Source twitter-like app
- Myspace Page, Fausto L
- Myspace support: Keith G
Social Web team support
- Multimedia, Promo and Community
- Audio/PSA, Martin Macias, Neily J
- Video, Gretchen H
- SoundCloud Management, Radio/Audio support, Mathew C, Martin M
- Rep from Change:the Music Project Aj V
- Photography and USSF Flickr Page Pidge P, photographer, Chicago, and Jhonathan FG
- USSF Youtube Channel Gretchen H, Dan S
Scheduling for this sub group
- MarkDilley - available after 9pm EST and on weekends
Conference Call Agendas and Notes
- 7-June-2010 - Full Group Call
- 17-May-2010- Full Group Call
- 10-May-2010- Full Group Call
- 26-April-2010- Full Group Call
- 19-April-2010 - Full Group
- 12-April-2010 - Quick chat with Lottie, Rachel, Veronica
- 05-April-2010 - Full Group
- 2-21-10 Communications/Media WG Conf Call -- Web & Social Media Planning Conference Call
- 18-Feb-2010 - Full Group Call
- 04-Feb-2010
- 21-Jan-2010 -- Full group call
- 14-Jan-2010 -- subcommittee group
- 02-Dec-2009--Full group call
- 20-Nov-2009--subcommittee group
- 31-Oct-2009--subcommittee group
- 28-Jul-2009
- 26-Jun-2009--conf call login problems, thus informal call with Karlos and Sylvia
- 12-Jun-2009 notes
- 12-Jun-2009 agenda
- 03-Jun-2009 agenda
- 22-May-2009 notes
- 22-May-2009 agenda
- Communications/Media WG Notes from NPC meeting