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Organizational/communications structure

Current very sketchy thinking ... feedback welcome in the threads below (or feel free to start your own) -- Jon Pincus, October 3.

Key considerations:

structuring communications to keep people and systems from being overwhelmed
assuming that many online systems (and possibly even cellphones) will be overloaded: down or slow
reaching out into the community to reach those who are offline
liaisons with other groups: we're small compared to these other efforts

Scope	Web presences	Liasons	Pre-election focus	Election day focus
National	Wiki RSS Feed Twitter Facebook, MySpace, MyBO, ... Google and Yahoo groups (for email) YouTube	866 OUR VOTE National Association of Secretaries of State (canivote.org) Campaigns Political parties Non-partisan voting rights groups (Project Vote, PFAW, Source Watch's Election Protection Wiki) National media National bloggers: voting rights; black, Latino, progressive, libertarian, etc. blogospheres DOJ Voting Rights Division "voting.twitter.com" (name TBD, link coming soon) CREDO Action election protection text message network Technology providers (e.g., Wetpaint, Twitter, FB, Google, etc.) and security experts	Get connections in place. (mailing list for organizers, phone/e-mail contacts) Visibility "Know your rights" awareness work Test out "action alert" procedure Threat modeling Video clearinghouse Images of deceptive flyers	major action alerts regular (hourly?) updates dealing with escalations from the state level alerting state-level in emergencies availability for media investigate national patterns
State + "overseas voters)	Same as above (for each state and overseas voters)	State blogs, media Secretary of State's office State-level campaigns, parties Convention delegates from that state per-state twitter channels (see see Allison Fine and Nancy Scola's Twitter: An Antidote to Election Day Woes? for a proposal)	Recruit poll workers, election observers Get connections in place. (mailing list for organizers, phone/e-mail contacts) Visibility "Know your rights" awareness work Test out "action alert" procedure	statewide action alerts regular updates availability for media escalations from/alerts for local level investigate statewide patterns
Local (city, county, precinct, campus)	probably just a subset of the above -- whatever works for the local group	local newspapers, radio stations, TV, independent media Board of Elections/Registrar of voters Individual candidates campaigns Parties precinct captains Local activist groups Per-city and per-precinct twitter subchannels (see Allison Fine and Nancy Scola's Twitter: An Antidote to Election Day Woes? for a proposal)	As above, plus ... in-person get-together op-ed piece/letters-to-the-editor for awareness local images, video content bubbled up	Feet on the street!!!!! investigate reported incidents get the word out about polling location changes, extensions of hours, deceptive practices, etc. call in to local radio stations let state level know when reinforcements are needed availability for press -- individuals' experiences are where the stories are

JonPincus	Latest page update: made by JonPincus , Oct 10 2008, 10:40 PM EDT (about this update About This Update add voting.twitter.com, CREDO action - JonPincus 13 words added view changes - complete history)
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