Thanks for getting in touch. There are a couple of ways you can be of assistance. First off, I'd like to get as many people established within the legislative network as possible so that more and better ideas will be conceived, evaluated, and tweaked by as many competent people with as many different varying skill sets as possible. Participating in this network will allow you to contribute to and shape the project to the extent that your proposals are determined to be swell by other members, as well as to influence the direction of things by "voting" on the proposals of others - although the process is somewhat different than voting and more akin to advancing something by means of perpetuating it further through the network by means of clicking a button that indicates your approval and which pushes a given item to those to whom you are directly connected; we're about to make a final determination regarding how those mechanics will work specifically and what threshold need be met for a proposal to "pass" or "win" or what have you.
Also, please let me know what particular skill sets you have that might possibly be of use in terms of your potential role as an informal advisor or operative; even if you can't think of how they might be applicable based on what you know of Project PM so far, they may indeed turn out to be useful as we expand our scope of action. Though we won't be launching till sometime this summer, the blogger/journalist network that is to be the main component of this project is already a success insomuch as that the people we've recruited are of such a caliber as to easily recruit a great number of other high-quality news and commentary folks with established audiences, and as this network will thereafter expand on its own without need of any real oversight by myself or the legislative network, we'll be able to concentrate on advancing our goals from a variety of different angles. To the extent that we do, it will be tremendously helpful to have members with wildly different abilities and positions.
As for you, I could currently use someone to help organize our volunteers and put them to work on various things while we prepare for formal launch (the software under which the networks operate is still being written). Basically, as I receive e-mails from various people, I'll write back and then forward the e-mail to you, then you would get some info from them regarding what they can do in terms of their skills, potential contacts they might have, and whatever else, and then list this information in some moderately organized manner so that we know who we have that's capable of doing what. At some point soon, I'd then have you give assignments to certain of these people as needed. You'd have a lot of breadth to make judgement calls, as well as to determine what things ought to be done other than what I might think up, so this would potentially be a very significant position in terms of your importance to the project, and you'd be given an extraordinarily impressive-sounding title to match. You'd also be dealing with a range of resourceful and occasionally prominent people who are themselves worth knowing.
Let me know if that sort of role would interest you; otherwise, I'd like to have you on the legislative network at the very least. Feel free to call if you'd like to talk about this more in depth.
Thanks,
Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Jacqueline Plavier <JPlavier@msn.com> wrote:
Hello,
Your project certainly sounds interesting and, if it is effective, could prove to be quite valuable. I would very much like to be involved if that is at all possible. I have, I'm afraid, the resume from hell. On the bright side, being currently unemployed, I have quite a bit of time. What sorts of things do you need done?
Jacqueline