{"id":2318,"date":"2011-01-03T16:39:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T23:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2011-01-03T16:39:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T23:39:33","slug":"thoughts-about-a-social-media-campaign-for-the-stripping-of-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/01\/03\/thoughts-about-a-social-media-campaign-for-the-stripping-of-freedoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts about a social media campaign for “The Stripping of Freedoms”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work in progress! <\/span>See discussion questions at the bottom
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\"excerptEPIC’s<\/a> The Stripping of Freedoms<\/a> conference has an all-star cast: Kate Hanni of FlyersRights<\/a>, pilot Michael Roberts of Fed Up Flyers<\/a>, Jim Babb of We Won’t Fly<\/a>, Prof. Jeffrey Rosen<\/a>, Bruce Schneier<\/a>, Nadhira Al-Khalili of CAIR, Chip Pitts of BORDC, Ginger McCall and Lillie Coney of EPIC, and many many more.\u00c2\u00a0 So it’s a great chance to mobilize the resistance to the TSA.<\/p>\n

Social media* are an important way of getting the word out; letting people participate whether or not they can make it to Washington DC; putting pressure on Congress, the Obama administration, and the airlines; and trying to get the traditional media to cover our side of the story as well as the TSA’s.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s some thoughts about how to approach it.<\/p>\n

The first step is to let people know about the conference — and get them excited about it.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a lot of easy ways to do this: invite people to the Facebook event, share the links to EPIC’s page and blog posts on Facebook and Myspace, tweet it, mail it to your friends who are likely to be interested, tell any bloggers and journalists you know about it. <\/span><\/em> A lot of people have never done anything like this before, so we’ll try to have some basic instructions available.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll also set up threads in the FlyerTalk forums and the We Won’t Fly blog to ask for questions and strategy suggestions.<\/p>\n

During the event, live video will be available via <\/strong>http:\/\/epic.org\/events\/tsa\/<\/a>. We’ll also have discussion on Twitter on the #ScanTSA hashtag, with a two-way connection so that the speakers and audience in DC can see the backchannel. One of the goals here is to get discussions going between people watching online, to build connections that are a basis for future activism. Another goal is to generate ideas to help inform the strategy panel that wraps it up.<\/p>\n

It may also make sense to stage an social network activism campaign in conjunction with the conference. There are several groups fighting the TSA who have large mailing lists, so we have a good chance at getting some traction; and we’ll need to make it as easy as possible for people everybody to participate.<\/p>\n

A couple of ideas so far:<\/p>\n