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We're looking for help on several action items from the chat.

* organizing a CA-10 Twitter debate/chat/something
* a high-quality EFCA RSS feed *without* corporate propaganda/nterruptions
* EFCA tweeting points page (or add to resource page), update dailyish

Interested? Please reply to this thread!

jon

PS: The summary notes and chat log have more details on all of these -- links at http://p2pt0.wetpaint.com/page/May+28+chat

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I don't want to get caught up in being the "teacher" for other progressives on how to be a progressive. Cn3matic made the point that each of us is in our own development track and we should honor that. Being too prescriptive doesnt come off right--implies moral authority. None of us is perfect so individuals should note it how and when they feel comfortable.

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The idea and name of the #sexistmuch tag came up in our May 14 Tweeting. It's pretty simple: if you see a tweet to #p2 that you consider sexist, let people know about it by flagging it with the #sexistmuch tag.

There are several reasons for this:

* Others can look at the tweet and draw their own conclusions about whether they think it's sexist -- and discuss, when there are disagreements.
* Over time, this will give us a catalog of examples and help us discover better ways for combatting the problem.

Here's how a tweet could look:

#sexistmuch http://tinyurl/example explanation of why i think it's sexist @name #p2

- including a URL rather than excerpting the tweet means that the sexist remarks aren't repeated
- including the tweeter's name communicates the feedback to them

does it make sense to include the #p2 hashtag? this sends the signal to others on #p2 that it's a place where sexism is challenged. it's also likely to lead to ongong debates about sexism on #p2; a lot of people are tired of seeing these, but then again we still haven't talked through the issues.

thoughts on this?

jon

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I am an outsider candidate for CA-10 with a strong volunteer base. We live on buzz, national volunteers, and $. I believe having P2 helping would be a great asset to my campaign for progressive change in the San Francisco East Bay. I support EFCA and labor, equal federal civil rights for all (opposed Prop. 8), an end to the drug war, and public financing for all offices. I am also a reform advocate under the auspices of the Gov 2.0 movement. Read more about my campaign at http://tinyurl.com/adriel4congress http://www.adrielhampton.com and http://tinyurl.com/candidate20. Thank you!

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At last tweeting we agreed that one of #p2's roles is the "progressive bat-channel" ... cool!

What do we mean by this? I think of the bat-channel as an emergency communication channel and in particular a way of calling for help, so one interpretation is as a way of mobilizing progressives when action is needed. Of course there are many other possible interpretations as well. Your thoughts?

And once we decide what it means, how do we start putting it into practice? What does a call on the batchannel look like? How do we make it easy for people to see when a call's gone out? In what situations should people be using the batchannel? etc. etc.

Please discuss!

jon

PS: we'll be discussing this at tonight's tweeting -- http://p2pt0.wetpaint.com/page/May+14+tweeting

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the idea seems a natural follow-on to the discussions of sexism and other issues we've had on Twitter and in our conference call: work together on a #fem2 Twittercast and #p2 Tweeting both to explore these issues in more detail and to start getting progressive guys to step forward more.

I see at least three potential goals for collaboration here:

1) improve awareness of gender-and-power issues and intersectional issues in online communication

2) get male progressives to start putting their muscle behind a couple of causes that are usually described as "women's issues", one chosen from a feminist perspective (#fairpay perhaps?) and one explicitly from a woman of color perspective.

3) more and deeper connections between people in the different communities, and more good information and conversation on all three hashtags

GloPan of #fem2 suggested that their Sunday Twittercast on Father's Day could be a good time to kick this off.

Thoughts about the overall idea, goals, format, specific topics, anything else?

Please discuss!

jon

PS: there's also a more general discussion of diversity on #p2 at http://p2pt0.wetpaint.com/thread/2832185/

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as well as the hashtag and the wiki, #p2's technology base also includes tweetleft.com (developed by Chris Meserole after a discussion in our first Twitter chat). progressives are also using Twibes, where "progressive twitter users" is the biggest political twibe. can we work with pxfriday's "progressive weekly status" and community-building mechanisms like #women2follow and #samesexsunday? are there opportunities for shared development?

please discuss!

jon

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Looks good. Felt like more :) but I don't see anything else in my notes. I forgot to mention I am in Philadelphia.

Thanks again Jon and all the rest of you who made it into the call!

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Anyone have any ideas how we can foster more group discussions on Twitter? The Tweeting was really a great experience and I can't wait for more of them, but day to day #p2 should be a place where progressives can engage the public sphere comfortable in a diversified and empowering environment. Right now we can do this, but it's only to an extent.

Communication on #p2 (and Twitter for this most part) is far too often only one way---RT'ing or commenting on someone's Tweet or sending your own out into the ether. If you have a lot of followers or a number of motivated followers, others will spread your work and engage you in discussion. Yet far too often the desired discussion is not attained, and Tweets become a more like registering a story, opinion, or activity than a mean to have the sort of discussions our founding fathers dreamed of. #p2 should become a platform to engage in precisely this sort of conversation, whether it is constrained to #p2 or not (such as linking to blog posts where discussion will continue in the comments sections).

Our community needs to do more to encourage progressives to Tweet, but more importantly, enter and engage the public sphere. As phenomenal a place as #p2 is already I don't think we are yet doing this nearly enough!

This is why I ask what else we can do to foster more conversation? No matter how much we have right now, it's not enough, if only for the fact that there can never be enough if we truly want to be the "progressive batchannel" :)

---Harry

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