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- COMM WG Full Group Call
- Wednesday, December 2nd | 3pm EST | 2pm CST | 1pm MST | noon PST.
Present: Karlos, Scott Byrd, Reg McGhee, George Lujan, Jackie Smith, Bill Bryce, Andalusia Knoll, Allison Fletcher Acosta, Sylvia Orduno, Alison Park
Finding the COMM WG wiki page:
http://wiki.ussf2010.org/wiki/USSF_Planning_Wiki
Then click on Working Groups link (left column) then Communications/Media WG link (middle/body)
Agenda:
I.Introductions: Name, Organization, Place-West to East (appreciative inquiry/building from strengths) what you want to bring to comms WG and what do you want to get out of it? (20 mins)
- Scott in LA: w/ Sociologists without Borders - liason with ICT group and will support group with tech.
- karlos in Oakland, Center for Media Justice, Co-chair in Atlanta, Co-chair this time - looking to support strategy and some limited national pitching.
George Lujan - SWOP, Communications Organizer there. New to USSF process. Here to listen and learn. SWOP has a lot of communicaiton resources at SWOP and want to see how we can support
Jackie Smith - w/ Sociologist without Borders, teaches at Univ. Notre Dame - has been facilitating a writers network. Writer's Network (there's a link on wiki). Mobilizing content creation. 30 people in network. Folks agree to write a piece every month. Story ideas, profiles, etc. Idea is to keep information spreading through networks and to build network/ can use help in mobilizing writers/content providers. And ideas for memos/ story hooks, organizing, etc...
Reginald McGee - Detroit. SE JwJ, experience in comms in labor, co chair working in detroit to assist local org committe with communications and assisit/coordinate national activities as well.
Bill Bryce - Organizer for SE JwJ, Recovering sociologist, background in film and video and public television, corporate campaigns and strategic planning for unions.
Allison Fletcher Acosta - National JwJ comms and tech coordinator. Email, blog, website and external communications. Was at last USSF. Trying to learn more about what this group is doing and how she can plug in.
Andalusia Knoll - Prometheus Radio Project, builds and advocates for community radio, PRP wants to be involved in doing live radio broadcast and connecting with other people doing communications work. 24 hr a day streaming broadcast. AMC involvement - want to do similar things at USSF as AMC - where is there interest in radio and who wants to participate in
Alison Park - Center for Constitutional Rights and Gender Justice Working Group (USSF), access to big commercial media database, writers' network, like to see how working groups operate...
II.Quick presentation of survey results, vetted communications plan and wiki projects w/ Q and A. (20 mins) *posted survey. can pass this on to folks...
20 people filled out survey. Maybe not as much as we'd like from the south. Projects in wiki:
Summary of Comms/Media WG workplan up on wiki (complete plan forthcoming), presented to last NPC in October where it was approved 6-month workplan outlines internal (national recruiting, development of core messages and identify media sectors, develop fundraising goals, etc.) and external goals
Any questions?
WG members can use revised survey as a recruiting tool:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZHSTWNH
Reg and Bill are working with labor committee attempting to get labor to USSF. Uniquely situatied in detroit, where there used to be a lot of film and video production because of auto industry. How do we take advantage of this (production skills) and get folks into the forum?
Writers network includes any media folks
Reg: Scott, can you tell us a little about going on with website? Shooting for December 15th for launch and beta test on registration and workshops. wire-frame and design figured out. Will be migrating content from current space to new space. How do we make sure content gets to the right place.
Sylvia: Website subcommittee will be working on how to deal with content.
Jackie: Writer's Network. You can go to page on wiki. Coordination around using memo's and prompts that writer's network creates for content.
Question on messaging: we need a core group of people to work on messaging. Doylefrom smartmeme and others want to work on messaging and talking points. * would be helpful to have talking points and sharp messaging to help build a narrative around the USSF (messaging subcommittee)
OC: will help coordinate between working groups--committee of represenatives from each WG--meets twice a month. There will be a lot overlap in communications and outreach
Messaging subcommittee/crisis communications team that can respond quickly onsite at USSF (useful for Writers' Network)
Sylvia: what about a space for updates, quick news responses, is it our facebook page or twitter? Or are there other venues for social media?
Sign up for different media roles (mainstream, social) sign-up for roles--such as a media manager; regionally? Place a list on the wiki
Roles:
* social media role - allison fletcher, alison park, karlos and sylvia, mark d, lots of people, can help play a role in social media sub group
* national pitching
* ethnic, regional and issues
* propaganda
Regions and Issues and layers of planning for social media.
Can we use wiki page to coordinate roles and regions and issues? (YES)
Can we also be more intentional about other media: video, radio (incl podcasts)?
Bank of content?
- there is website subcommittee - if we can get core group of folks to give feedback on content and active in drafting relaunch and redesign.
FYI: website wireframes (2nd round):
http://designaction.org/clients/ussf/r2.htm
III. Group discussion: Where do you see yourself fitting into plan? What do you see as your role? Can you invite someone else to help out? (15 mins)
IV. Set call times for recurring calls. (5 mins)
12/17 Next Call: Thursday 3pm EST, 2pm CST, 1pm MST, 12 pm PST
1/14 January Call: Thursday 3pm EST, 2pm CST, 1pm MST, 12 pm PST
Make better use of List-Serve.
Standing agenda for recurring calls will be:
1. Check ins (just quick go around to see how people are doing) and Introductions for first time participants (same question: name, org, what do you want to bring to WG?) (5 mins)
2. Updates: Detroit and national (20 mins)
3. Discussion(s)/Proposals (30 mins)
4. Review of Action Steps (2.5 minutes)
5. Announcements/Scheduling (2.5 minutes)