Who's doing what

[Andy Carvin]

Hi everyone,

Once the wiki is ready, we'll have a page listing all the volunteers and what tasks they're handling. Until that happens, please use this discussion thread to note as precisely as possible - and in plain English, please - exactly what role(s) you're playing in this volunteer effort. Part of this is to just get a sense of how many people are contributing, but also to make sure that we're not duplicating efforts except when done in a coordinated fashion.

thanks,

@acarvin

[Andy Carvin]

I suppose I should go first:

Andy Carvin (@acarvin on Twitter, www.andycarvin.com):

General mobilization of volunteers;
Coordinating overall strategy for utilizing social media
Outreach to social media entities
Administration of Ning site
Creation of Twitter feeds, including @GustavAlerts (w/ @johntynan)

If I can think of anything else I'd add it to the thread. (I'm sure there's more but I'm just a little brain-dead at this point.)

[Thomas Broadus]

Posting all news from MEMA as MPB receives it
working on info for MEMA RSS

[B.K. DeLong]

Restarted Interdictor radio/scanner transcription project.

Don't have the time I need to fully oversee. Trying to recruit more staff and managers as well as volunteers.

Wrote draft manual for participants here in thread.

Publicizing on my rather large social network pools in LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Livejournal (I'm bkdelong on all of these). Can liase with folks in effected areas as well as VOIPWX Hurricane Net working with NWS/NHC.

[Jared]

I'm mainly blogging the storm and documenting items of meteorological interest on Twitter. That, and hoping for the best for our friends on the Gulf Coast.

[Alex de Carvalho]

I've been tweeting these efforts @alexdc, I'm listening to the NOLA stream (but not transcribing yet), and I'm on standby to help with the wiki once it's set up.

[noisecontrol]

Well - I've been told I am working to establish the #interdictor IRC community and assist in information gathering, recruitment, and management of feed transcriptions coming in.

To the exact scale of my command functionality - we are all in this together. A good leader follows. I salute you all - the heroes of Gustav.

[Ray Marr]

Keeping the information flowing as best I can via multiple connections. Implementing diverse connections to get the word out.

via @Knatchwa

[Pamela Livingston]

At the ready to help post to Wiki or help out with Ning. Haven't contributed as yet though.

[casey moore]

Evacuating my family to Starkville, MS first thing in the morning. Main thing for me right now is to get my 4 year old son out of the way, otherwise I would stay around to chronicle what happens. Thanks to everyone.

[Andy Carvin]

Just to clarify for everyone: MEMA=Mississippi Emergency Management Administration, MPB is Mississippi Public Broadcasting

Thomas Broadus said:

Posting all news from MEMA as MPB receives it
working on info for MEMA RSS

[BlondeByDesign]

I'm more or less waiting to see what is happening, what is needed and then assess what I can actually do to help. In the mean time, I'm on standby and spreading the word out to others as information and needs come in. Sorry that I can't do more at this time. I'm not exactly the tech girl. I just hate what happened after Katrina.

[Tom Glaisyer]

I can assist in farming any wiki set up tomorrow (Sunday) and recruit others to do same.