Tuesday, September 20, 2005

[NicoMoon]

Good Day Livewires!

Ok, down to business!

On the interviews....who we need to interview TODAY, if possible. (Debby, it's all about your schedule for starters.):

Contacts on the ground who can provide information on where today's NO evacuees are being sent. The news is that there are 200 buses being dispatched to start moving people out, because there is danger of the city flooding AGAIN.

The big story for the day is what is going to happen to these people, and what is really happening down there.

Contacts at shelters nearby to get an evaluation of the impact of further evacuees showing up, and who can tell us what those shelters need, and how we can get it to them.

It's an amazing frustration to try to get the full story on what is going on down there today via the news one who can fill us in on that is needed.

So, the question is, who has the time to make phone calls and make arrangements for a few interviews today?

How the interviews will work until we get our equipment set up for live call-in broadcasting is that Debby will conference with me and the person being interviewed, record the call, send it to me and I'll start broadcasting it.

I say me because I'm totally comfortable to do that. Once we have our first model, anyone else who feels comfortable can volunteer to do an interview as well. We'll make mistakes, it's not a problem. I have editing software and can clip out anything that is really bad, but the point is to mine whatever information our interviewee has to share.

Once we have information broadcasting, we'll have to get busy on the crossposting and sending out a bulk email.

I have the email list, and sorry, I now forget who volunteered to send out a bulk mail formatted to show only the address of the recipient, not the full list, and that will not get lost in the spam filters. As I recall one of you mentioned that you know how to do that. If I'm correct, please chirp in again,and my apologies for forgetting!

Because of the impending storm/s I think we need to focus on how that is going to impact the area. Even if it doesn't hit, there is a lot going on in the way of preventative measures, so let's get the word out as to how that is working out, and what's going to be happening in the next few days.

Once we have a more clear picture, we can decide what else we need to do.

That's my proposed focus for today, all input is welcomed!!

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm thinking that we'd better get ourselves tightly organized and focused today!!

I'm sending this out as e-mail too.

Please make sure to respond if you can, and let us know if and how you can plug in to getting interviews set up, emailing, or crossposting.

And, for those reading along, if you'd like to plug in, please email me at: NicoMoon@livewire.fm

Let's Roll!

Many thanks,

Nico

[NicoMoon]

More on the situation that needs to be addressed:

There are evacuations being called for in Texas. Galveston for sure.

Are there shelters there? If so, where are these folks being sent?
This is a very disconcerting situation!

I'm going to hit the NOLA boards and scout around to see what we can find out. The news coverage is focusing on Florida, which is understandable, but so far all I'm getting from FOX about NO is from the French Quarter, and the news ticker just mentioning the 200 buses.

Any info?

Thanks!

Nico

[Adrienne]

I have the email list, and sorry, I now forget who volunteered to send out a bulk mail formatted to show only the address of the recipient, not the full list, and that will not get lost in the spam filters. As I recall one of you mentioned that you know how to do that. If I'm correct, please chirp in again,and my apologies for forgetting!

Well, when you send out an email you can put YOUR email address in the TO area and put all other names in the BCC areas. The bcc addressees will only see the mail as coming to them and to you, from you that way.

Everyone has different SPAM filters so it's impossible to say there is no one way of getting through all of them. If you do not make the subject say re: or free or offer that kind of lingo it should go though fine. Fewer words in the subject the more chance it has of going through.

Hope this helps! I have offers of housing coming in to me with no evacuees to place them with. I suppose it would be nice to have someone call shelters and establish a contact and give them our information and say we can LIAISON some housing offers with them. To be honest, it's too difficult for me to do all that. Just hit me today that might be a way to get these housing offers to the evacuees. 80% come with transportation too. I see that as a much needed project though.

I can't sleep again and have been up forever. Spent a lot of time looking for missing persons today, some time writing, and a lot of information sharing. So who would be doing the interviews if you're on a conference call with Debby and the interviewee? Sounds like that is really coming together!

I spent a long time in searching on the main databases under UNKNOWN. There's a whole big list of possible finds!

Still looking for that laptop :p

[vervilledeb1]

Hi Guys,

Sorry, I had to get stuff together for my sons orthodontic appt. Nico, I just emailed you about the appt. ....yes, I know...answer on the board. My old age, I have a memory span of two minutes. :) This is just the consult visit so I am hoping it will not be long.

I was the person who volunteered to do the mailing. Which is why I chirped.
As soon as I get back I wil check in here.

Hope everyone is well. Joy I hope you are feeling better.

Okay, running again.

Thanks,
Debby

[Adrienne]

:o :o :o :o

[NicoMoon]

I have the email list, and sorry, I now forget who volunteered to send out a bulk mail formatted to show only the address of the recipient, not the full list, and that will not get lost in the spam filters. As I recall one of you mentioned that you know how to do that. If I'm correct, please chirp in again,and my apologies for forgetting!

Well, when you send out an email you can put YOUR email address in the TO area and put all other names in the BCC areas. The bcc addressees will only see the mail as coming to them and to you, from you that way.

Everyone has different SPAM filters so it's impossible to say there is no one way of getting through all of them. If you do not make the subject say re: or free or offer that kind of lingo it should go though fine. Fewer words in the subject the more chance it has of going through.

Hope this helps!

Very much so! I used to know that!! Thanks for refreshing my memory!

So who would be doing the interviews if you're on a conference call with Debby and the interviewee?

I'm not sure what you're asking? Do you mean me or Debby? If so, I would assume that it would be a three way conversation.

Sounds like that is really coming together!

I'm posting on Nola right now, looking for volunteers to be interviewed. We'll see how it goes!

Nico

[NicoMoon]

Hi All,

This is the message I've been crossposting to Nola boards. I only got through about half of the local area forums. I just wrote it in response to posts I was reading about the horrific problems evacuees are having with landlords and mortgage companies, so it's not very generic, but I thought I'd share it, if anyone wants to use it.

"Could you folks who are having housing problems like threats of or actual evictions and foreclosures please crosspost your stories to http://www.livewire.fm ?

This is immensely disturbing information! We'd like to get it out to the public!

We have static message boards so your posts will remain permanently available and readable.

We'd also like to broadcast interviews about situations like this on our radio station. If anyone is interested in telling their story, please contact NicoMoon@livewire.fm

The Livewire.fm Let's Roll Forum is a grassroots volunteer project, we do not solicit donations, only volunteerism and information."

[NicoMoon]

We're being constantly crawled by Google, and that's a good thing!

That means that we should get some decent rankings on the search engines.