"It's a great point, Harry, and it's a place where Twitter should be especially useful. Because it's accessible via phones, it can help report (and sometimes even coordinate) ground actions. We also might be able to do a lot more in helping to publicize actions by appropriately retweeting. I'll add this to the agenda."

I hadn't though much about how twitter can be utilized during events via cell phones, but you are completely right that it fully applies! I know from experience how many frantic phone calls can come in from event participants looking for leadership, and being able to set up such an easy and concise manner of communication could be HUGE for when we hold events that (hopefully) reach the scale of Join the Impact!

However, I'm also looking at twitter usage for supporting events after the fact. As we saw with the Join the Impact rallies especially, mainstream media does not remotely adequately cover these projects (and when they do it's typically in a condescending fashion). If we can create buzz about such events both beforehand and then promote the media (web video, pictures, blog posts, etc) after the fact it could also have a major major impact. This could especially be the case if we are able to successfully engage mainstream media personalities via Twitter who could then relay that message dramatically farther than we are as of yet capable of doing.

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