Please also see the Organization/communications structure page for the broader picture

Channels to/from votersuppression wiki

Final Days Rapid Communication For Wiki Members And Interested Activists

In order to gather and distribute communication among the group, we have set up a chat room with the "Chatterous" service. You can send/receive to this room via text messaging (for those in the field), email, instant messaging (google talk) or a web interface. This should provide quicker communication than the wiki discussion threads.

Here's what you need to know.

• Joining the room
• by web link invite: http://www.chatterous.com/landing/vs-wiki/femw3/
  
• by phone: text CHTR JOIN vs-wiki femw3 to 41411
  
• by email: @join femw3 in body to vs-wiki@chatterous.com
  
• by jabber/google talk: add vs-wiki@chatterous.com as a buddy and send @join femw3
• Sending and Receiving:
  
• email: vs-wiki@chatterous.com (note, your subject line will not come through)
  
• jabber/google talk: vs-wiki@chatterous.com
  
• phone: text CHTR vs-wiki <msg> to 41411.
  
• There is also an RSS feed of room activity.

• Useful commands
• by email
• @stop stops messages from the group.
  
• @go resumes messages from the group.
  
• by jabber/google talk
  
• @stop stops messages from the group.
  
• @go resumes messages from the group.
  
• by phone
  
• CHTR STOP vs-wiki stops messages from the group.
  
• CHTR GO vs-wiki resumes messages from the group.
  
  

• The room keeps a log of activity, so you don't need to be in it to benefit. This is an experiment! Hopefully it works.
  

Outbound (letting people know what we're up to)

• @votesuppression on Twitter
• here on the wiki: mail to all members for major updates
  
• google group for organizers and volunteers
• merged RSS feed: who's going to do this?
• Facebook, MySpace, my.barackobama.com, other social networks?
  
• email announcement aliases for action and media alerts
• voter-suppression-wiki-media
• voter-suppression-wiki-bloggers
  
• voter-suppression-wiki-alerts
  

Inbound

• incident reports: posted on wiki, as new pages or in threads
  
• media requests?

Peer-to-peer community channels

• hashtagging on Twitter -- see Allison Fine and Nancy Scola's Twitter: An Antidote to Election Day Woes? for a proposal
  
• cell-phone based communications -- see liza's Five ways to guerrilla broadcast with your cell phone on Culture Kitchen
• email discussion lists? (how to keep the load from overwhelming people/systems?)