Audience

We have the following audiences:

1. Animal Rights Activists
2. Animal lovers upset by killing
3. Average person who doesn't care about animals
4. People who believe "something must be done" and aren't aware of non-lethal alternatives
5. Hunters

Groups 1 and 2 don't need to be convinced, group 5 will never be convinced, so out true target audience are groups 3 and 4 who represent the average apathetic voter.

The audience can access the data in a hierarchy, several sentences on a Main Site page points to a several paragraph abstract on the public blog that has a "read more..." separator where multiple pages can be displayed.

We should keep content on the Main site within 2 screens per page so the average person doesn't get bored and just go along with the city.

At the bottom of every article people can comment, or they can view related articles by clicking a Label, or they can return to the main site.

Arguments that work on the first two audiences won't work on the next two audiences.

Call for Work Help

Our Solon Deer Work Blog now has 100 posts, 71 are "Active" and need input and discussion. http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/

Currently this work area is available for everyone to view and comment on, it is suppressed from Google Search but when the city realizes our effort I will need to secure it so they can't see what we're up to.  While that may sound paranoid, I know from past experience that the city DOES IN FACT monitor citizens posting on the web.  I have seen them discover my bainbridge road blog with a large spike as they caught up on what I posted, I have been critical of the city online and been personally contacted within 12 hours of a post.  We can expect them to monitoIr our Solon Deer web presence very soon.

I'd like to encourage everyone who hasn't already registered for a Google ID to do so.  This will allow me to invite you to private work forums so you can read and contribute to secured areas.  See http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/2011/03/google-registration.html  to see the process.  You can use your existing email to register to Google, you don't need to define a new ID. 

Take a look at the Welcome Post to see http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/2011/02/welcome.html

Many of you are already registered to the private blog, some of you are not.  For those who are not, send me an email when you have an ID and I'll send you an invitation to the private blog.  When you sign in to the blog you will have the option of defining a new post, editing a post you authored, or commenting on any post.  See this post for details http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/2011/03/using-blogger.html .

The 71 active posts were derived from the nearly 500 emails I have on this topic.  The work blog is an organization tool that allows you to filter posts by VerDraft status, by subject, etc.  We have 10 posts that have moved to VerArchive status that have been acted on and moved to the public sites.  Our goal would be to make a substantial dent in the 71 active posts to move them through draft status to VerFinal and to the public sites.  The challenge is that information, especially written from an animal activists point of view doesn't translate to a Web Site or Web Blog format nor to the target audience of uninformed voter.  See this post for a discussion - http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/2011/02/audience.html .

Those who are more technical may be interested in how the web services are set up, see http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/search/label/Tech

Everything starts with registering to Google and the Welcome post, we look forward to moving forward with our web content to support our actions..

As always, feel free to contact me about any question or suggestions.

Solicitation Issues

What are we allowed to do and where can we do it?
We need good legal advice as we are likely to be challenged.

Can we sit at a table in the community center with a sign?
Will that be considered "solicitation"?
Are we allowed to approach people, or just sit passively until someone comes up to us?

Can we knock on doors with a "no solicitation" sticker (political exemption)?

Lawn sign rules?

• One sign per yard
• Not in right of way (tree lawn)
• 30 day rule on political signs doesn't apply to this "free speech statement sign".

Possible places:

• Community Center
• Pavilion at Community Park
• Earth Day
• Giant Eagle & Marcs

Lots of updates  needed per emails....

Who are we?

Make it clear on all sites who we are and how we feel...

Taglines used at top of ALL sites, Main Site, Blog, Comments...

Contact

How should the public contact us?

They can email us at solondeer.com, this will be automatically forwarded to the SolonDeer Google Group.  Interesting comments will be posted to the SolonDeerNews Blog .  See the post Label NewsBlog for these topics.  


Need to determine if we want to show the google group publicly.

People can comment on the public blog.  We'll want them to comment on an appropriate post so we should have a post to catch related comments.

The google sites doesn't have much in the way of a commenting facility, we will have to point them to the public blog.  Added a contact page to main site to inform them of comment ability. REMOVED

Public group email.  If we can get people to join a google group they can communicate with each other and us via that platform.  People first have to get an ID registered to google (their own email), select the frequency (immediate, daily digest, or web only) and then they can post issues for discussions.  Popular discussions that we find useful may be copied to the public comment blog.  People can submit things to the Google Group without having a Google Acct by sending email to SolonDeer at gmail.com which has proxy authority and will post their comment.

Should we have a phone #?

Should we have an address?

Internal discussions

[REWRITE]This is separate from internal discussions of strategy or draft documents being developed.

For this we have a private facilities that we will want to secure to our working members so city hall and other advocates for killing aren't tipped off.  These are a  google group email and the working blog.  A working site could also be setup if it is helpful.

Press Release / Inquiry

How should these items be handled?  

Some sites require a press inquiry before using the site.

Versions

This post is mainly to reserve the version labels.

When someone is composing something for the public sites they should label it as Web and a draft version status. When the item is posted, the labels can be removed and changed to VerArchive.