Building upon the work done at the Fearless Drupal code sprint last weekend, Kris and I are working with Irwin, Lani, Hendrick, Lorraine and others at Fearless City to gather up unused phones to redistribute to help DTES artists share stories, and tap into life, jobs & family.

We assembled this social media marketing campaign on a accelerated timeline to spread the message while so many people are getting new phone for a holiday gift and will end up with old phones which can be used to make media, document incidents, or provide basic communication. We used a variety of online media publishing and community building tools to create presences for Fearless City, then created the campaign materials using collaborative working tools and online photo tools to make the badge from Kris' sweet punk photo.

Finally, we unleashed the hounds (well Twitter, some blogs, Facebook, and such) to spread the word quickly on a Friday afternoon with a plan to pick up phones on Tuesday, Dec. 23rd on the auto-magic-Flickr-uploading purple Yahoo bikes Kris and Roland are rolling.

A look over kk's Twitter posts for today tells the story of how the plan came together ~ to quote George Peppard's character in the A-Team, "I love it when a plan comes together!"

Net Neutrality is a *big* topic which will be addressed more in a primer post next week but in the meantime, check out this interview by Nicole Scott with Kris Krug on bnetTV.com. Kris offers some savvy suggestions about how to "frame" the conversation about net neutrality by emphasizing digital human rights in Canada with a suite of progressive policies towards access, privacy and competition.

How many times around the world can Kris K. hop from event to event. He has been running all arond North America recently.. He just returned from SxSW in Austin Texas where Raincity Studios put on a great party and talked with hundreds of people at their booth.

With Vancouver personal expression conference Northern Voice approaching, Dave O, Roland Tanglao and Richard Eriksson preview the Internet Boot Camp track at Moose Camp (Friday Feb 22, 2008).

This year at Moose Camp, Richard will present Blogging 101 and Roland (along with Jordan Behan and Warren Frey) will present Video Blogging 101 to go along with the ad hoc track. On Saturday's Northern Voice, Dave will lay out his pitch to encourage the assembled folks to seize the opportunity to make creative endeavours with integrity and not get hung on stats and fleeting noteriety. Then, plates of steaming tasty Cantonese food arrives to the table at The Boss cafe in Vancouver's Chinatown.

Its crunch time folks, if you haven’t booked your room in Boston, its time to get on it ! Raincity + Now public will be staying at the:

Courtyard Boston-South Boston
63 R BOSTON ST
Boston, MA 02125
$129
Phone: 1-617-436-8200

About 10 minutes from the BCEC center, traffic permitting, and a short cab ride downtown.

The hotel sales coordinator has put a side 10 rooms for Drupalcon at 129 a night but will increase room numbers if there is a demand. Also, if you are trying to book a large group ask for sales directly and you might wrangle a better rate.

These rooms will be held till Feb. 15 after that the price goes up.

There will be arranged shuttle service to the Drupalcon.

So practice your Boston accents and have fun.

say it frenchie, say “chowder!”