Capitol Area Group, Sacramento/NorCal

Marc Ross is helping the CA Group/NorCal organize our first meeting...

On Saturday, July 26, 2008 from 7 - 9 P.M. at the Folsom, Ca., Round Table Pizza we will have our first meeting of many on what we as Americans can do to rid ourselves of Foreign Oil.

I will bring a video and PPT about PickensPlan and how we can create awareness and what we can do to grow.

Please remember to think positive, and to be open minded. This about out future as a country.

If you plan on attending and could send me your name I will start a roster.

If you would like to help I can use it. Taking Minutes and posting them to our site would be a big help.

Once again the location is:

Round Table Pizza
2793 E. Bidwell Street
Folsom, CA. 95630
Saturday, July 26 from 7 - 9 P.M.

I look forward to meeting everyone,

Marc

Let's Get Started.........OK? Initial Action Plan

1. Everyone should enlist at least 2 friends or family members in Northern California to join this group. The more the better.

2. Recruit volunteers to identify and document the mail, email, and phone numbers of all the mayors, city council, county council, state representatives, state senators, U.S. Congresspersons, and U.S. Senators representing the area of Northern California.

3. Recruit volunteers to draft letters of communication templates to use in email and snail mail campaigns that will enlist others to join the group as well as template to use when communicating to the our elected representatives.

4. Recruit volunteers to initiate a FaceBook, My Space, Twitter etc. campaigns by enlisting anyone who use this medium to create a viral grassroots effort.

5. Recruit volunteers to identify groups such as college activist groups at Sac State, Chico State, UC Davis, UOP, all Community Collleges such as American River College, Sacramento City College, Consumnes River College, McGeorge, Western Career College, ITT and that would be willing to enlist the support of others within their organizations to join this effort.

6. Recruit volunteers (at least 2- primary and backup) to act as Secretary and develop and organization chart, manage this charter as it grows and becomes for focused.

7. Recruit volunteers (At least 2 - primary and backup) to act as Communications director to manage communication within the group and external to the group (such as campaigns to contact representatives).

8. Recruit volunteers with skills in search engine optimization (SEO) to drive web search engine traffic to the Pickens’ website.

9. Develop a charter for this group - its purpose, goals, objectives, success criteria.

10. Develop a plan to implement the charter.

11. Communicate with the national campaign to align local objectives with national strategic objectives.

12. Identify key person to operate as group leaders (at least 3 persons) so that consistent momentum can be achieved and fostered.

13. Identify other roles to be performed and recruit volunteers to perform those roles.

Let me know your thoughts and if you have any other ideas,
please share, OK?