ignoranceisntbliss
12-02-2007, 12:43 PM
Ron Paul Meetup Action Alert Centralized Coordination
The idea is to get a 'Meetup Delegate' from each Ron Paul Meetup group to join the 'Central' Meetup group so that each of the 1300 Meetup group is sure to receive action alerts. If successful, this would mean that everybody could combine forces on Internet related matters in particular.
For example, right now there are 1289 groups with 79,221 members joined to them. If something urgent or actionable comes up its likely that somebody in their groups will see it on their normal radar, except that doesnt ensure that everyone else in their group will or when they will. So when something comes up in the normal Paulosphere, such as 'Glenn Beck Boycott - Phone Numbers - Call His Sponsers', many people of that 79,000 may see something about it and call, but that doesnt ensure that all of the Meetup activists will see it nor that there will be a concerted effort.
Imagine that within 24 hours 95% of the groups delegates got the prepared action alert through the centralized Meetup and posted it in their groups. So within 24 hours over 75,000 activists all get the same info and then a good percentage of them pass it down thru their other channels as well as called the show, voted in the online poll, or got the crucial strategy information.
With concerted effort, hitpiece authors and media outlets will fear us then. For starters. If we combine our numbers everybody will at least be on the same page in terms of whats happening and whats next.
Right now if you dig up something that an entire state's meetups NEED to know you have to go and join 3 groups from that state, and then post your memo with a note encouraging someone from each group to go do the same with their other states groups. With the 3 'foreign' group limit at Meetup this is very backwards and ultimately futile.
Remember that the RPHQ notified us we only HAD 900 hours left, a few days ago. We need to turn this up.
If this idea gets support I'll start the group. I can afford to activate it for the 1st month ($19) at the moment, but to activate if for 6 months right now I'd need to start one of those Chipin.com bots.
I was also thinking that if this works out we'd need a forum for discussion about certain alerts so that they're polished, so perhaps this could be partially centralized thru ronpaulforums.com here.
Having over 500 members we'd probably want to have a email 'alert' methodology for titling memos to streamline it. For example, for state specific matters title the post beginning with the states acronym:
FL - How to become a RP Delegate VIDEOS
And then for Internet alerts:
NET - Nominate RP for Person of the Year @ time.com
And then for national foot soldier strategies:
STRAT - Operation FREEDOM STATION
And so on.
What do you think? What are your ideas?
The idea is to get a 'Meetup Delegate' from each Ron Paul Meetup group to join the 'Central' Meetup group so that each of the 1300 Meetup group is sure to receive action alerts. If successful, this would mean that everybody could combine forces on Internet related matters in particular.
For example, right now there are 1289 groups with 79,221 members joined to them. If something urgent or actionable comes up its likely that somebody in their groups will see it on their normal radar, except that doesnt ensure that everyone else in their group will or when they will. So when something comes up in the normal Paulosphere, such as 'Glenn Beck Boycott - Phone Numbers - Call His Sponsers', many people of that 79,000 may see something about it and call, but that doesnt ensure that all of the Meetup activists will see it nor that there will be a concerted effort.
Imagine that within 24 hours 95% of the groups delegates got the prepared action alert through the centralized Meetup and posted it in their groups. So within 24 hours over 75,000 activists all get the same info and then a good percentage of them pass it down thru their other channels as well as called the show, voted in the online poll, or got the crucial strategy information.
With concerted effort, hitpiece authors and media outlets will fear us then. For starters. If we combine our numbers everybody will at least be on the same page in terms of whats happening and whats next.
Right now if you dig up something that an entire state's meetups NEED to know you have to go and join 3 groups from that state, and then post your memo with a note encouraging someone from each group to go do the same with their other states groups. With the 3 'foreign' group limit at Meetup this is very backwards and ultimately futile.
Remember that the RPHQ notified us we only HAD 900 hours left, a few days ago. We need to turn this up.
If this idea gets support I'll start the group. I can afford to activate it for the 1st month ($19) at the moment, but to activate if for 6 months right now I'd need to start one of those Chipin.com bots.
I was also thinking that if this works out we'd need a forum for discussion about certain alerts so that they're polished, so perhaps this could be partially centralized thru ronpaulforums.com here.
Having over 500 members we'd probably want to have a email 'alert' methodology for titling memos to streamline it. For example, for state specific matters title the post beginning with the states acronym:
FL - How to become a RP Delegate VIDEOS
And then for Internet alerts:
NET - Nominate RP for Person of the Year @ time.com
And then for national foot soldier strategies:
STRAT - Operation FREEDOM STATION
And so on.
What do you think? What are your ideas?