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Comms Team is creating the cohesive communications strategy for CrisisCommons and for CrisisCampHaiti

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We are distilling content from the wikis to make it usable for press, NGOs, government agencies, and non-community members.

[edit] Crisis Commons Press Contacts

Insert your camp information below

DC/Nat'l Contact

  • Yoav Lurie, Twitter: @yoavlurie, Email: yoav@crisiscommons.org, phone: 310-651-0003

Crisis Camp City Contacts:

  • Bogota Contact:
  • Boston Contact: Monika Adamczyk - monika (at) maco-tech.com, Skype: madamczyk777, @macotech
  • Boulder/Denver Contact:
  • Chicago Contact: Deborah Shaddon - dshaddon (at) comcast.net, and organizers@crisiscampchicago.org, http://crisiscampchicago.org
  • LA Contact: Andrew Lih - andrew AT andrewlih.com Skype/Twitter: fuzheado (Los Angeles)
  • London Contact: Alan McNeil Jackson - alan (at) aptivate.org @alanmjackson | Sara Farmer @bodaceacat)
  • Miami Contact:
  • Montreal Contact
  • New Orleans Contact: sloane AT thecausemopolitan DOT come twitter: sloane skype: sloaneberrent
  • New York Contact:
  • Portland, OR Contact: misslauraschultz AT gmail dot com twitter crisiscamppdx
  • Seattle Contact:
  • Silicon Valley Contact:
  • Toronto Contact: Heather Leson - Heatherleson AT gmail DOT com crisiscampto
  • Calgary Contact: Darlene Parker - opentechdiva@gmail.com / Skype: darlene802 @CrisisCampCAL

[edit] Recommended Communication Standards

To best aggregate content on multiple networks, the National team is encouraging the use of standard and central tags, groups and pages.

On Twitter:

  • Use hashtag #cchaiti; for location specific tweets, please add in your local tag (recommended no more than three additional letters):
Bogota:
Boston: #ccboston
Boulder/Denver:
Chicago: #crisiscampCHI
LA: #cchaitiLA
London: #crisiscampLDN
Miami: #ccmiami
Montreal:
New Orleans:
New York:
Portland: #ccPDX or #crisiscamppdx
Seattle:
Silicon Valley:
Toronto:
Washington: #cchaitidc
Calgary: #CrisisCampCAL
If you have a video or link from your local camp that you'd like to share on the feed, please send to Yoav Lurie or Dave Levy
  • Flickr and YouTube:
Use crisiscamp as one word for tagging all content.

[edit] Team resources / Needs

Need a French, Spanish, and Creole speaking spokespeople
Need a Creole version of the website
Need a way to schedule media interviews
Need to connect w/ local media to promote camps (this needs to happen on Wednesday or Thursday so it can run in Friday and Saturday's papers.


Press release template 1/22 https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AWwimBNMpY1sZGY5M2JycTlfMjc1Y3Fkc3cyZzY&hl=en&pli=1

[edit] Suggested content

Reorder the list of projects
Link to projects
I want to volunteer
Event brite lists
Press releases
Success stories


Project pages:
We need to remove the author details from stories.
Project pages need images/screenshots of the projects.
Project pages need a button for "get it now" for ones that can be downloaded/linked.
We need screenshots on each project page.
Front page:
We need a compelling frontpage/splash page. This should speak to Haiti specifically - big image, 10 app logos.
Prominent "get involved" button to point to the currently hidden "get involved" page (that page needs to be filled out)
General:
Would be awesome to migrate the WordPress blog over to give a unified look/feel.
We need embeddable video block/module so we can drop the new video onto the front page.
We've got a rockin' 1min video running soon.
Events page w/ CrisisCamp logos and links to the appropriate pages for different events.
Also need links to Facebook, Twitter, etc., pages
Note:
Please refer to the wiki - http://bit.ly/4HXkg4 where we have info/links to open flickr photos, etc. on there

[edit] Comms Team

The Comms team is as follows:

Eric Johnson - Web site Development - elstudio@el-studio.com
Yoav Lurie - Misc Comms - yoavlurie@gmail.com
Sara
Jakko
Harriti
Krista Canadian
Chad Catacchio - crisishaiti AT gmail.com Skype: chadcat (Los Angeles)
Andrew Lih - andrew AT andrewlih.com Skype/Twitter: fuzheado (Los Angeles)
Corey Snipes (Denver) - Drupal/Infrastructure - @yessoprince - corey AT twomile.com - skype: coreysnipes
Drew Tipson (DC) - Social media (blog hits/twitter hits/etc.) dtipson @ twitter, gmail, etc.
Doug Black (DC) - communications strategy and outreach - @dlblack
Mike Russell (DC/PA) | PR, Social Media, InfraGard natl. liason | Skype +Twitter: planetrussell | mrussell(at)planetrussell.net
Dave Levy (DC) - Digital Media (blogger relations, Facebook) - levydr (at) gmail - @levydr

[edit] Telecomms Team

Telecommunications Engineering Group - We do telcomms projects TRANSLATION
For now at Google Group - CRISISTELCOM-HAITI
Info Haiti Telecommunications Policy Management at CRISISTELCOM-HAITI
We are Communications Engineers, Managers, Builders, Engineers-without-Borders and Radio Amateurs
Southern California Wireless User Group http://www.socalwug.org SOCALWUG
With tele-communications skills and organizational access who want to
Assist in CRISIS HAITI, future communications infrastructure disasters
Where we need to popup, propup or rebuild any and all communications.
We work in the model of CrisisCommons CrisisCampHaitiLA and support disaster needs.
Groups on NING, growing .. us all working together .. .. Crying for Cooperation
The first http://newhaitiproject.ning.com/group/informationtechnology COMMNETS on NING
The second http://newhaitiproject.ning.com/group/communications COMMS
The third http://crisescomm.ning.com/ NING Comms Site
Everett Batey - LinkedIn Telecomm Engineer | User Everett on Wiki
Steve Radich Owner BitShop.com Previously Microsoft IIS & ASP MVP, can assist with IIS, SQL Server, ASP.Net, performance scaling for disaster related web sites - We have our own physical servers in Equinix as well as experience scaling on Amazon EC2. Will try to assist immediately if you contact me during a crisis.
Israel "Izzy" Lopez - EWB-OC
Lori Barfield
Richard Barnes
Ed J Carley
Brian P Dickson
Brandon Galbraith
Tim Jackson
Jamesb2147
R Krenzis
Mark in NL
Roger Rustad
Jim Palmisano
Bart Stidham
Ted_SF
Tom Sh
Ian Wilson
Charles Wybles
Please Provide your Bio

efbatey AT gmail DOT com / +1 805-616-2471 17:16, 02 June 2010 (GMT-7)

[edit] Crisis Camp Accomplishments/Success Stories

http://www.coloradodaily.com/ci_14233164

CrisisWiki: Team has settled on an overall structure for initial rollout, codified into a sitemap. Wireframes now in third draft, passed off to semantic dev team in Portland and NYC via IRC. Collected approximately 85 resources for DC-area test case for the wiki.

TechAid: #cctvd A need exists to record, store, and categorize projects requests coming in to crisiscommons. TechAid has defined a work flow to handle requests that initially will use wufoo forms to gather the request information. A categorization process was defined and posted to the TechAid wiki. We have included next steps for the hand-off team. Next steps could include how to bridge in the technical volunteer network, i.e. a volunteer CRM. Rumor has it that a group is presently working on building the CRM with SugarCRM?

Language Team

Divided into three sub projects: - Translators in Action - Machine Translation - Pict-o-speak Project

- Translators who came in worked on 4636.Ushahidi.com - Jennifer Wade and Kaylyn Kvochak organized Translators in Action to coordinate translation resources: form for translators to register and a form to request translation services. Both up on the wiki. - Chris Taylor's Machine Translation sub-team developed a corpus of more than 75 MB of training data for machine translation - David Rees managed the Pict-o-speak project organizing more art and taxonomies for a mobile application.

[edit] Official / Public Facing Language

Mahatmelissama

[edit] Frequently Asked Questions

How do I use your applications?

Click on the link in the project description. This will take you directly to the Project home page where you will be able to access the application. You can either “Use It Now!” or, for developers, you can use the source code and modify it as necessary for your needs. Please give us your feedback on the applications!


I’m an NGO and I need a tool / an application developed for me. What do I do?

Fill out this form and we will match you with technical volunteers.


I want to help! How do I get involved?
Contact us! - TBD
Become a Fan on Facebook: Crisis Commons
Visit the Wiki - TBD
Follow us on Twitter!
- Accounts: @CrisisCamp, @CrisisCommons + other new accounts for individual cities/camps (updates pending!)
- Hashtag: #cchaiti
Email: crisiscommons@gmail.com

[edit] CrisisCommons and CrisisCamp Website Development

Eric Johnson (Twitter @elstudio) is leading the Website development

Current wireframes are available at:

We will base the theme on http://drupal.org/project/zeropoint

In case of website overload: DrupalEmergencyRelocation

[edit] CrisisCamp Project Logos and External Descriptions

-Logos for each of the 10 projects
-All icons are up by 3PM

[edit] Press Kit

[edit] Media releases

--CrisisCampSV release - 2009-01-17

[edit] Press Contacts

Chicago Tribune Newsroom 312-222-3650 Gary Weitman (VP of Communications) 312-222-3394

Christian Science Monitor contact: Jay Jostin 617-450-2316(o) 617-640-1128(cell)

LA Times contact: Gen # 800-528-4637 ask for Craig Turner (National Edition/Editor)

Bob pool bob.pool@latimes.com has covered us there before

Miami Herald contact: Newsroom 305-376-3344 ask for Opal Comfort (Communications) Ocomfort@hearld.com

San Francisco Examiner contact: Zoran Basich (Executive Editor) 415-359-2753

New York Times contact: General # 212-556-1234 ask for Yuchanna Hicks, ext. 1757 (media relations)

The Village Voice contact: Jessica Bellucci 212-475-3300 x5052

Wall Street Journal contact: Jackie Middlebrooks 609-520-5978

Washington Post contact: General # 202-334-7973 Eric Grant (Director of Communications) 202-334-6466

[edit] Photos

We are collecting photos for the public-facing website. We're putting them on the photos page:

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