I took this weekend off from the social media situation room to fix my new apartment (as of January 1st) in Tel Aviv but being away from it made me realize we're starting the second week of the fighting.

I'm now working on a paper to produce new goals, new destinations, new ideas on how to stand in our online multi-lingual, multi-cultural battle.

This is where I need you.

1- I'm looking for social thinkers from across the globe to produce breakthrough ideas and that can get them done for us.

2- I'm looking for SEO and SEM experts for advice and implementation.

3- I'm looking for cartoon artists for a project we want to create.

My phone is 972-54-6969278
My email is nivcalderon AT gmail.com
My Facebook profile is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=530192588 (write me a line if you friend me there)
My twitter: http://twitter.com/nivcalderon

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So what have we been doing so far?
Fighting the "First Social War" made us realize we are fighting a multi-platform, multi-language, cross-cultural, cross-technology battle. Two days ago(Tuesday) I took part in building the Jerusalem Social Media Situation Room for the recent Israel Hamas conflict. Yesterday I've joined forces (along with other friends) with the second situation room in the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya which generously hosts us and let us use its facilities, personnel and connections.

I proudly present the social media tools we've launched in the last 48 hours thanks to many volunteers who helped from home or came to Jerusalem and the IDC headquarters and spent hours from their time and gave their brains, hands and used their personal social graphs to help us in this first ever organized social media war effort. War brings something else out of people, I've learned this in the Second Lebanon War the first time, now I realize it the second time. It's a fascinating human phenomenon to look at, generouciry at its peak.

This is what we've got so far:
1- A blog: Help Us Win. The center of attention.
2- A multi language Status Report center that can show you (currently in English and French) what's going on all over the social web, divided to tabs for the different subjects and languages.
3- A Recruiting System – please register if you wanna help.
4- a Twitter account.
5- Two Facebook groups, in English and French.
6- A Press Releases Blog for government and IDF press releases. They should be more available anyway.

These are the social tools we've used so far:
1- Gmail
2- Google Docs
3- Wordpress
4- Tumblr
5- Picasa Web
6- Netvibes
7- Twitter
8- Facebook
9- Youtube
10- Wufoo Forms

Few last things:
1- I want to thank all the amazing people who've joined us in this adventure.
2- The Jerusalem and IDC situation rooms are open every day and help is always needed.
3- If you have time to come help us- do that- just come…bring a laptop if you got one.
4- I want to thank all of you who support us and support Israel on the social web.
5- Any videos, posts or photos you think worth promoting- send to helpuswinisrael@gmail.com
6- You can follow my Twitter as well, I tweet a lot.
6- More is yet to come.

Special personal thanks to Kfir Pravda, for his part creative thinking part coaching he's been giving me in the last few days.

Hey guys,

In the past 48 hours we've been working on creating a social media initiative for what's going on in South Israel.

I don't have time to share all the details now, but from what i've seen so far, there a few things we need as soon as possible.

This post is probably one of many i'll write in the near future, each of these will be as short as possible and will ask for your help in different ways. I'll probably post this on my blog as well (www.nivcalderon.com) to give people the ability to share it, so please share it as much as you can (the Facebook note and the blog post)

Things we need right now:
1- We're building our personnel lists now so we need a list of people you know who are willing to donate their time and passion for this cause. we need the list with these columns filled up: full name, phone, email, twitter, facebook, blog, field of specialty, languages.

Please send all lists (please use excel for this) to my email: nivcalderon at gmail.com.
Please share this as much as you can.
If you have any questions, please use the comments

i'll keep you posted,
Niv

d @username will send a direct msg to anyone
f @username will let you follow anyone

there are about 1 million Israelis on Facebook
I still believe there are less than 1000 Israelis on Twitter. It'll change.

Twitter friends contributed to this event even when they were'nt there. They @replied to live twits that came from us.

"Twitter is a blog, it's a forum, it's a social network…"
met the men who runs @netanyahu: http://twitter.com/netanyahu

Netanyahu follows more people than he has followers

There's a better Twitter desktop app than TweetDeck, I forgot its name, maybe Alex de Carvalho can help

Twitter makes people wanna meet

On Twitter you can have conversations you couldn't have had otherwise

"all Israelis are on Facebook"

Twitter isn't just one thing- Twitter is what you make of it. don't try to explain it- you'll fail

People still don't know what's Twitter's business model. And that's OK- they have one. it's under our nose. relax

one day I will learn all about play dates

Cafe Greg is a network of coffee shops from the north. They bought CoffeeToGo. Now say Cafe Greg.

you can have a networking event while sitting down. when you sit down with people, many more people can participate the interaction.

watch this short video from the tweetup