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#SMS – Suicides Must Stop. A Twitter Town Hall Meeting

October 1, 2010 by Margie Clayman 13 Comments

I wanted to post an update here where I actually have more than 140 characters – you can tell I am so not a 140-character woman, can’t you? More like 140 pages.

Anyway, after a lot of feedback I received, I have tentatively scheduled the first Twitter Town Hall Meeting for this Wednesday, October 6, at 9 PM EST. I know that 9 PM can be tricky for West Coasters, but I think, I think…there are fewer chats going on then, it’s in the middle of the week, and this gives you some time to potentially plan for it and spread the word.

The format, as per the name, is going to be open. For this first townhall, we’ll have 2 general points of discussion.

1. Framing the problem – what are we talking about? Are we talking about identifying a specific problem, trying to create a supportive framework throughout Social Media, or both?

2. What do we do next? This could either be a decision to do a second meeting, a decision to create a hash tag so we could get it to trend, or something else.

These are big chunks of information to discuss and digest, so I don’t want to set the expectation that everything will be 100% clear by 11 PM on Wednesday. The point is to start now, but to do it right.

If you wouldn’t mind, please let me know if you can come so I can get a sense of whether I should reschedule this. If you have any ideas re: structure, etc., I’m all ears (er, well, all eyes, I suppose).

And if you wouldn’t mind, please spread the word. This is really important to me. I think, as I said before, that we have a chance to really do something important here, something to make the world better.

Thank you for all of the support so far – I know this is dramatically off-topic as far as my blog usually goes. Then again, if you are going to use a powerful tool for business, you should know everything about it, right?

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  1. Joseph Ruiz says

    October 1, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    Margie, I am interested and plan to “drop in”

    Reply
    • Marjorie Clayman says

      October 1, 2010 at 6:23 pm

      Thanks so much, Joe! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Cristian Gonzales says

    October 1, 2010 at 8:07 pm

    I should be able to take part, and will spread the word this coming week Marjorie. 🙂

    #SMS!

    Reply
    • Marjorie Clayman says

      October 1, 2010 at 9:20 pm

      Thanks, Sir. have a great weekend! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Debbi Morello says

    October 2, 2010 at 12:29 am

    Hey there,
    I would like to do this, though I may not be able to this week. In th meantime I wanted to refer some links / resources!

    http://www.thetrevorproject.org/ great site

    http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/10/01/us-hatred-hallways

    RT @TheEllenShow I just can’t be silent about this. I hope you won’t either. http://bit.ly/crBE9Z

    http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/Default.aspx

    http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/10/01/us-hatred-hallways

    Reply
    • Aira says

      October 1, 2011 at 2:15 am

      Unparalleled accuracy, unequivocal clarity, and undaenilbe importance!

      Reply
    • mbxftfpfrn says

      October 1, 2011 at 11:41 am

      XpdMDW depmqfoqpflf

      Reply
  4. Debbi Morello says

    October 2, 2010 at 12:36 am

    Also check out http://www.facebook.com/800273TALK National Suicide Prev Lifeline’s FB page, also a lot of good info.

    Reply
    • Marjorie Clayman says

      October 2, 2010 at 7:52 am

      Thanks Debbi!

      Sorry for the moderation. WP doesn’t like comments with links 🙂

      Reply
      • Debbi Morello says

        October 3, 2010 at 1:31 pm

        Sure thing… but, I didn’t realize WP doesn’t like comments with links, sorry! I didn’t see, ‘moderation’?

        I’ll post the links in a message to you for Facebook, which I thought about doing in the first place 🙂 Think it would be important to share these in your Town Hall, or have them handy, only because of the topic. You never know what may come up… more in a message on Facebook.

        D.

        Reply
  5. Robyn says

    October 2, 2010 at 5:51 pm

    I will do my best to be there! Thanks so much for organizing this!

    Reply
    • Marjorie Clayman says

      October 3, 2010 at 10:23 am

      Thanks, Robyn!

      Reply

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