Re: Neahauser

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

<CampbellV> there we go, wysiwyg enabled
<CampbellV> yeah, i was looking at that nealr
<CampbellV> seems like a great aggregator service
<nealr> if you'd look soon

<CampbellV> is it the sort of thing you could package into a tweetdeck script?
<nealr> the next step will be integration work with http://visibilevote.us

<nealr> we'll have the ability to do live townhall meetings via mobile devices for incumbents before 11/2/2010 midterm
<nealr> so we monitor policy in, it's a service offered to Congressional staff

<nealr> and we'll manage the output side, too
<CampbellV> i'm interested in the paper.li integration
<CampbellV> why did you choose that service?

<CampbellV> why not scribd, or just publish the content on the site yourself?
<nealr> next week I am in D.C. - meet Nancy Pelosi's chief of staff, meetings /w various Progressive caucus members, meet cmbined House/Senate Dem new media caucus staff

<nealr> we own nothing CV - any attacks slung our way have to get through serious service provides
<CampbellV> ah
<nealr> our Twitter stuff is all on Twitter/Google Docs - no way for bad guys to even figure out where we have servers

<nealr> the paper.li are coordinated - they run at 0400 eastern each day
<nealr> we have staff for about half the areas, it's growing bit by bit

<CampbellV> oh i see, it's just a formatter for twitter feeds

<CampbellV> i misunderstood what paper.li did
<CampbellV> so you do your publishing entirely via twitter/gdocs?
<CampbellV> amazing

<CampbellV> what prompted that decision?

<nealr> we have teams that coordinate via Twitter
<nealr> they send direct messages to the various CPC accounts, which then tweet them. This is rigged so that only the one account is seen by paper.li - this is the principle of attention conservation applied most carefully

<nealr> and we have a means to directly offer this to Congressional staff, will be running small focus groups shortly to get it tuned for their needs
<CampbellV> so the site will be only opened up to congress. staff

<CampbellV> what value are you offering the congressional staff here?
<CampbellV> i mean, at core, what are you selling?
<nealr> step 1. not inclusive on news - we have a managed, crowd sourced filter so we inform them w/o overloading

<nealr> step 2. crowd source is MANNED, developing relationships with analytical bloggers, think tank staff - it's a brain trust
<nealr> step 3. we can bear message on policy work outward - we have lots of bloggers, twitter reach, Facebook allies

<CampbellV> basically a socially based, filtered information service
<CampbellV> why use twitter at all?
<nealr> step 4. we keep a psychometrician, will quickly close deal with http://visiblevote.us -then we can monitor sentiment in the field, administer polls in real time, stage town meetings after laying groundwork

<nealr> Twitter is the water cooler - people from all over gather, tremendous power. It's lightweight, easy to program - we do all sorts of stuff with it
<nealr> think of tweets as packets ... between humans

<CampbellV> I understand it as a way to gather information
<CampbellV> but for example, why not use a news aggregator that takes full posts from what people are gathering?
<CampbellV> or just have an actual report that is emailed to them daily?

<nealr> a news aggregator is NOT good for attention conservation - it takes a sharp human mind to get just enough to inform, without overloading
<nealr> since we're connected to staff, we're responsive service org - we do our bit, and they can offload work to us

<CampbellV> i see
<CampbellV> really it's all about the responsiveness
<CampbellV> that you can get good real time assessments of what's going on 'out there'

<nealr> we respond to Congress
<CampbellV> yeah
<nealr> working with Progressive Congress Action Fund, Center for American Progress -actually have a person to run Capitol Hill

<nealr> as well as targeted outreach
<nealr> Capitol Hill position is arranged, not yet filled
<CampbellV> fascinating stuff - there's real potential, but you're right that the devil will be in the details

<CampbellV> how you tune it for their needs
<nealr> we just ask them
<nealr> and the buzz grows on Twitter - enviro is already wired
<nealr> the other areas will

<nealr> be
<nealr> and we can do SalsaLabs mail blast each morning, got a tool that lets us target just the staff we want
<BarrettBrown> is xtranormal an animation format?

<nealr> and then once we get process done with VisibleVote - it'll be a policy pushin' machine - lots of people engaged, but advised by bloggers & think tank folk
<nealr> anyone curious can just scoot up on Twitter, ask questions, get answers

<nealr> very response to both Congress and those interested in policy making
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<BarrettBrown> neal, take a look at the e-mail I sent you a minute ago when you have a chance
<BarrettBrown> and let me know if you can think of any way in which we can work together at this point

<BarrettBrown> I'll also set someone up as a "liason" to you and your project to look a bit more into what you're doing and propose some areas where we can be of use to each other
<CampbellV> nealr: what is salsalabs?

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<BarrettBrown> clark
<nealr_> check http://salsalabs.com big Dem organizer infrastructure site - mostly about mail blasts, web sites, engagement, etc

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302