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Notes for Comm - meeting
Communications issues:
- Mark's email to group got bounced, so people don't know where etherpad is:
- On the http://USSFwiki.org left sidebar there is a link to 'Web Tools' and on that page there are two etherpads available.
- Also, MarkDilley thinks it would be great for people to be in IRC (which is also on left sidebar of wiki)
- Mark suggests that we use a roundtable mode for the conference call
attendess of call
Adele N - Communications Coordinator
- Reg M- Co-Chair
- Sylvia O - National Coordinator
- Lane R - Detroit
- Kimberly K - LA - Pacifica Radio
- Mark D - Wiki person
- Nadine W - Rights Working Group - human rights organization
- Veronica H - Wichita State University
- Scott B - LA - from Sociologists without Borders
- David M - Chicago
- Matthew C - Detroit, Professor at Macomb Community College
- Charles L - NYC
Agenda
Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 - 3pm est, 2pm cst, 1pm mst, 12 pm pst
- - Decide who will take notes/facilitate meeting
- - Introduction/check-ins
- o Identify any new members
- - Any additions to the agenda?
- - Quick updates/report backs
- - Next Steps
- o Strategy plan/narrative
- o Survey
- o Regional Breakdown plan
- o ICT/tech/site content
- - Wiki maintenance
- - People's Media Center: Identify individuals/orgs to invite
- - Quick announcements and scheduling
- - Next Steps
- - Quick updates/report backs
- - Introduction/check-ins
discussion
David - online street team
- PSA creation - working on an basic audio promo "what is the USSF, why should you go"
- Video/audio/graphics
- considering a HOT video promo. anyone else been working/wanna work on this? - Changethemusic.net is a project of AJ Viola that just came out, it appears to be USSF sponsored though I don't think it's official. They're soliciting audio/video from folks around the forum. Perhaps we can build this into our comm plan- AJ is just moving to Detroit from Chicago for the forum. - considering developing a propaganda poster line around the 14 key messages/program tracks, perhaps working with top propagandists to develop some fun stuff (just seeds collective, beehive, designaction, etc.) Chicago artists are developing banners, tshirts already for the Forum & Detroit
- Fundraising Project Idea - an Online store (for tshirts, posters, buttons, stickers). Tools like storeenvy.com and spreadshirt.com could do shipping & handling for our designs if we want to explore an online 'local' store idea like this?
- Music - B Lowe of Outreach team is doing a large concert/release part of a Music for the People's album, which soliticed music/audio from artists around the midwest to write social justice related pieces. The concert is a fundraiser for the USSF. Maybe something to explore as a national project.
- Which platforms do we want to use as a team: so far we have:
PR related: - pitchengine.com
External Social Web: - twitter, various movement & USSF related links to a wide audience - tweetdeck- team twittering (COMM-Media organizers) - facebook page - our main facebook presence and point of base-building - facebook group - not our focus, but we needed to corner an official 'group' nonetheless - facebook person "us SocialForum" - so we dont have to send out from public individuals, so we can be 'invited' to related events happening around the country. - myspace - reserved but not developed
Adele - talking about new quarter sheet design - Sylvia working on
Charles - email team?
David - social medal, web team coordinator
Charles - suggesting email team seperate from social media team
- - david agrees, will work with charles & other email marketing specialists to head up this team and transfer power of the elists from outreach if that's agreeable within the COMM & OC plans
B is going to be talked to to see what emails addresses we have
Reg askes, talking external emails addresses or internal list emails?
- External email addresses, 7000 - base for all email to seed social media.
Link to tech/media organizational diagram:
http://wiki.ussf2010.org/images/3/3c/USSFtechmedia.pdf
Adele - did everyone get the survey?
if you know of other people send surevey - LINK HERE
wants new working group memebers join, to get packet = LINK HERE
ICT Tech agenda item
Tickets being processed:
- information - how it being handled
- call from tonight to get updated
- process to get info on the website needs to be clarified
Adele - explains - http://wiki.ussf2010.org/wiki/Category:Acronyms_used_in_this_community
add video to explain wiki - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
People's MEdia Center
Will be used at the Forum. If you want in on this conversation, talk to Adele. Next call Feb. 27, 9pm EST
Quick announcements and scheduling
- Registration opened on Jan. 27
- USSF accepting workshop proposals
- Reg drafted leaflet/resource with rates/process for workshop proposals. Being cleared with the Programming WG.
- Should be up on wiki/website early next week.
- Will be sent out to group.
We need a FAQ section.
- Put relevant questions on wiki with answers to contribute to this.
- http://wiki.ussf2010.org/wiki/FAQs_for_website
Do you know a good translator? Spanish/Arabic/French. Talk to Adele.
- Mark will ask Jessica and Bruce
Moderation of social networking site (Facebook/Twitter)
- David is point person, developing plan.
- Task: Update Links to pitch engine?
- http://twitter.com/ussf - which are random tweets?
- Include in plan/narrative: Do we censor irrelevant comments? Trolling.
- draft policy on http://wiki.ussf2010.org/wiki/TrollingPolicy
Who is on sub-group web folks:
David is heading it up
- MarkDilley is interested
- Charles
- Who else?
Do we do have a plan for a single account or mulitple accounts
OC Call on Monday. What additional issues need to be addressed?
Next call is February 18th