Suggestion - Emergency Action Items Forum

[MediaTruthNetwork]

Hi guys,

I'd like to make a suggestion for a new sub-forum for critical time sensitive
issues. Title could be something along the lines of:

Emergency Action Issues etc.

For important issues like polls, smear campaign rebuttals and the like.

I bring it up because of this garbage that fox just started, which I'm posting
in another thread on it's own:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eTRpsrYE87k

Full version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_qUvgfzuPM

- Dave

[Bryan]

Thanks Dave, we're looking at adding new forums and trying to gauge what will be most effective, we've had a variety of suggestions and I do like the idea of an Action Alert forum.

Keep the ideas coming everyone, we're making a difference!

[tnvoter]

excellent idea

[aravoth]

ya know what would really kick ass. And emergency actions forum, that shot out an e-mail or a message to an MSN account. That way everyone could have messenger running iun the backround no matter where they are. and then when something does come up, everyone is alerted at once,, and we all swing into action.

Probably asking to much.

I wish we could consolidate "everyone" on this forum though.

[MediaTruthNetwork]

I would also suggest an email list be tied to this forum if you do decide to create it.

This next part is important -

The list should be through a service like Aweber.com for two reasons.

1. They have relationships with all the major Internet service providers and
their email servers attach special "keys" to all outgoing email to prevent it being
dumped and filtered into spam folders. This is critical when it comes to
deliverability.

2. They are cheap, easy to use and professionally run. I have used them
for years and know many other people who do as well.

I have nothing to do with aweber, but I will say that I am an online marketer
so I do know what I'm talking about in that regard.

Deliverability is key to email marketing.

I don't know how funds are on this site, but I'm sure many people here
would donate towards cost for services and marketing needs like this.
I know I would.

- Dave

[kylejack]

I'd rather we not tie Ron Paul with the 9/11 Truther movement.

[Mort]

I'd rather we not tie Ron Paul with the 9/11 Truther movement.

Did you reply to the right post?

[kylejack]

Did you reply to the right post?

Yes, did you watch the video in the OP?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eTRpsrYE87k

The person is defending Ron Paul AND the 9/11 Truth Movement. I really would rather we not get near that as most people see them as nuts.

[MediaTruthNetwork]

kylejack are you referring to me?

If you are... please state specifics because I said nothing at all about 9/11
truth. I posted a thread with two "hit pieces" from FOX news that clearly
show the media trying to smear Ron Paul by labeling him a 9/11 truth
supporter.

It's important that people get out there and rebut it and show that
it's nothing more then a smear by fox news. They are trying to tie Ron
Paul's debate comments about 9/11 to the truth movement when in fact
it had absolutely nothing to do with it.

This is nothing more than media trying to shape public opinion and
its appalling.

- Dave

[Mort]

Yes, did you watch the video in the OP?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eTRpsrYE87k

The person is defending Ron Paul AND the 9/11 Truth Movement. I really would rather we not get near that as most people see them as nuts.

You're right. I assumed it was just the video with Gibson trying to link Ron Paul to 9/11 truth.

The OP may want to remove the video kylejack pointed out, it does attempt to defend 9/11 truth.

[Bryan]

Just a disclaimer, Josh is the admin here but obviously I'm being active. These are some great ideas and I can tell you that there are some efforts starting to take hold on how to coordinate "action alerts" through-out the Ron Paul support community. I had an hour-plus phone conversation on this last night with a member here who is doing some coordinating. I did argue that we need to use some push technologies, it seems however that different people optimize their information flow in different ways, for many e-mail is great, some live by RSS others never leave Myspace. Messager would be good to add too. It seems that a perfect Ron Paul information flow system would allow multiple reliable contributors to feed data into a single system which could then after some trigger point unleash an alert or daily bulletin through the various established channels.

In this way, the system consolidates the information flow but does not consolidate the congregation of people. A backup system on the information flow consolidation node would provide a safety mechanism and eliminate ownership problems. Over on myspace, a guy running a popular Obama page wanted $20K to hand over control. If you think big some interest group could offer some big money to someone to shut down a site, so in this way, diversity is good, but with a way to optimize information flow between them. So in that end, we should all know where at least a few Ron Paul sites that are active.

I hadn't seen the Aweber.com before, that actually looks really good and the money wouldn't be a problem for Ron Paul supporters. Thanks for that link and expert info Dave.

[MediaTruthNetwork]

By the way - aweber also has integrated RSS feeds into their system
so email alerts can also be fed out through RSS as well. In fact it can
be tied right into a blog.

I also believe there is a mod available for vbulletin forum software
that will syndicate selected sub-forums to RSS feeds.

My biggest concern would be deliverability and I agree that a multiprong
solution would be best. As Bryan stated and I agree with - people have
different preferences for info formats.

I've been thinking of putting together a "Ron Paul Action Kit" that would
contain step by step tutorials and resources to help people promote
Ron Paul. It would show them how to quickly set up their own blogs and
web sites etc. The goal would be to create a "viral" machine to let it
grow and expand on it's own.

Just need some time to get it together. I have a couple of domain names
that I can use for it as well as a few web servers.

- Dave