"International Student Movement"

hello there, in the last round-mail you could read:

Communication structure during the Global Week of Action:

a.. So far it seems that using "Twitter" is a good option. Any objections?
      a.. A "live ticker" on the main Indymedia page (indymedia.org) was another idea. Anybody knows how to arrange
something like that? A "live ticker" is a page where short messages regarding the global week of action from around the world would be listed and constantly updated regarding the latest developments during a certain protest. I guess "Twitter" is something similar.
      a.. Another suggestion was to use different channel on Indymedia IRC, something like #education-rumours (for unconfirmed news); #education-news (for confirmed news); #education-translation (for news and rumours to be translated); #minute-by-minute (for a constant coverage of "special events")... and so on. Since such a technique is easy to use for all.
      a.. Each group should post updates regarding their local protests inside the forums (http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org/forum/17) as soon as possible!! So that activists elsewhere will know and can spread the word! And each group has the opportunity to print
out a page each day informing others about what happened the previous day around the world!!
    That's it for now!
    Questions? Suggestions? Drop me a line!

"Suggestions?"

yes i do have one. why not discuss this online?

first: we have to take care not to overwhelm neither us nor new joining people with too many used media and networked places, at least i have to admit, that i´m slowly loosing the overview.

but - we will of course need a working, functioning reliable ticker-medium, and - even if i am really NOT a fan of twitter and will NEVER BE a fan of twitter ( I have my reasons) i think i vote for twitter in spite of this.

i think it will be easier to organize this, it will be less dependent of "contact persons" to indy-pips, i´m somehow not sure if such a dependence is what we could feel good with.

what do the others say?

i installed a doodle-voting place where you easily can click your choice:

http://www.doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=z598kini63rwq4ft (please use your emancipating-education-for-all-registration-nick or -initials for the voting.)

( MO?! WHAT`S UP IT`S JUST A CLICK, WHAT`S WRONG? IF YOU DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY OF THOSE YET BECAUSE YOU DID NOT MAKE YOUR DECISION UP NOW, CHOOSE BOTH.) (to the other readers: do not worry about these lines. registered users can see the other registered users online, that´s why some textes for a short period of time look funny sometimes, do not care too much about this.)

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(only for mo: mo? i installed a test-voting place where activists could type in whether or not they can bestätigen ihre teilnahme für 16-18h. it´s on http://www.doodle.com/zwp5vkdzkwcf2s34 ) maybe that´s a good idea for questions like this. of course, links there then would have to be placed in a) FB, b) here on the page in a short new forum entry with a speaking title, c) maybe also in round mails etc. - and, of course, it´s just a test. the real one dealing with online meetings would have to be installed by yourself, choosing the time zone description the global group is used to.