Visual Branding Core using Purple Spitting Phoenix

@jackie http://mediacause.org/essential-twitter-for-nonprofits-guide/
That has the basics and advanced info. They accepted me last year. I was very flattered, but have hardly incorporated them into anything..
I think now might be a good time to reach out to them

Great sheet of Twitter 101 info & congratulations on being accepted to their program.

O.K., so Next Year is #NatGat15; This Year is already decided and in use as #NatGat2014; we discovered the problem with #NG3 when we got postal code Tweets. If we had not already been using #NatGat2014—an analogue to last year’s #NatGat2013, BTW (Occupy precedent), I would agree with #NatGat14, but stick with what we have rather than fragment and learn what we can for new things—such as Caravan hashtags that are not already in place.

We are creating the fragmentation by using one not informed by past practice.

Use which ever moves you the Retweets will be the best way to see which work for wider OWS.

We're being a bit TOP DOWN in our thinking in this.

These are Twitter Hashtags. Research the history of past practices yourself.. I think once you Occupy the question you'll see what Im talking about ;)

Loving the dialog & the fact we're keeping it light ;)

Thanks Justin. Whatever you are doing on twitter is working. We had 32 interactions last night while I was sleeping.
Hashtags are for FB and the Internet searches, too

Hashtags are for many platforms but one should research them via twitter to see what's been used historically.

Little warning- Using hashtags allows people to find your content when you search THAT tag but FB does NOT promote them in newsfeeds beyond the basic 10% of fans they show content to in the first 3 hours.

Using hashtags on FB basically buries the post. So I do not recommend using them unless the tag is being used & heavily promoted by the community.

Take a peek at the #OWS hashtag on FB- notice the lack of engagement & whom is posting.

Mostly #OWS inspired virtual groups trying to do outreach with Occupy..

Never trust FB. They lie lolz.

Found this from @justin2 on an fb thread on the Media page from April 19th. "So realizing Occupy Design collective offered to create an ‪#‎OWS‬ Single Color Logo/Patch/Screen/Meme Graphic for ‪#‎NatGat‬. We'd love some ideas to get us pointed in the right direction but wondered if maybe we could use Loomio to popcorn/brainstorm in community instead of on fed book? There are stakeholders who wont use this platform & Loomio is the best tool set ive used for occupy dialogs..
Could someone add me to the group & I can begin a discussion?
A little framing for the design.
We use a very simple visual style that is scalable & easy to reproduce/remix/reuse for most settings.
Look forward to getting things flowing on Loomio!"

Is Occupy Design still willing to do this?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/573275506081781/

We've got some designs in the works but still waiting for more of the group to weigh in. so far there are only 4 folks in this convo-

waiting for more buy in- spread the word & read through the thread to see where the ideas are flowing.

Look forward to hearing the creative suggestions!

Can we riff off Larry’s patch for Occupy Sandy N.J. (attached) with the U.S. map instead of N.J., one of the colors from the Phoenix logo, and a big chevron or star or something focussed on Sacramento?

I'll throw out there and then step back so others can step up with creative suggestions.

How about jamming one of the officials Seals with occupy symbols.

Also, California state motto is "Eureka!" which is Greek for "I have found it"

http://www.netstate.com/states/mottoes/ca_motto.htm