LiftPort To-Do List

This is a generic list of things to do. Please feel free to augment this list. If you would like to tackle any of these tasks, please note that you’re working on it and contact us at info@liftport.com

• Meet with LiftPort accountant and establish accounting procedure for LiftPort Media

• Transfer media assets from LiftPort, Inc.
• Establish asset values for media assets

• Post existing progress on business plan to wiki
• Finish business plan

Our newsletters are our most important tool for communication and feedback. The number of subscribers directly relates to our clout both within the space elevator community, with politicians, and with the world at large. That clout builds the social/political leg, and paves the way for building the legal leg of the four pillars.

1. Contact other members of the space and science bloggers and/or companies (and any others that might be interested) to see if they will promote our newsletter signup on their web site (or other media outlet).
2. Provide a method for those interested parties to generate their own signup form, allowing for source tracking.

1. Get input from more writers for the general newsletter.
2. Make weekly calls/emails to have an up-to-date overview of the month’s activities
3. Write the newsletter
4. Proofread the newsletter
5. Translate the newsletter to other languages
6. Post the newsletter to the Wiki

At this time, Nyein Aung - our very talented artist, is away at college in Australia. His busy schedule prevents his writing his monthly newsletter.

1. Come up with a plan on what to do during Nyein’s absence

The contest responses started out well, but quickly died off. We want to continue this newsletter. We need to find out why people aren’t participating and address that problem.

1. The ability to get technical papers for posting on time has been difficult at best. We need more technical authors to be able to create a backlog
2. Identify students that are studying topics of interest to the LiftPort Space Elevator and contact them about publishing their research.
3. Follow up with those researchers on a regular basis.

The LiftPort web site is one of the most important assets for promoting the LiftPort Space Elevator. The priorities for the web site are:

1. Maintain top 10 google rankings
2. Provide a method of feedback and collaboration between the space elevator community and the LiftPort Companies
3. Promote the LiftPort Space Elevator project
4. Provide a method of communication from the LiftPort staff to the space elevator community
5. Produce revenue
6. Provide a method of communication among individuals within the space elevator community

1. Get rid of the ‘id,’ in the url
2. Edit the template to make it fit the rest of the site better
3. Move content from forums and papers to the wiki
4. Update wiki content
5. Add wiki content
6. Edit wiki content
7. Manage wiki content
8. Standardize wiki content structure

1. Move blog to Joomla
2. Ensure bloggers have the necessary rights to write articles within Joomla.

1. Fix integration issues with SMF
2. Add text to donation module that makes it blunt that we are for-profit and not-tax deductable
3. Add mini-blog feed
4. Integrate privacy policy page
5. Make a flash animation for the front page that tells the SE story 1)
6. Make random image for the company pages pull from special flickr groups
7. Make RSS module smaller and have it go to a page that will give a list of our rss feeds to select from

Speaking engagements are a great way to directly spread the message about the LiftPort Space Elevator project and get immediate feedback. Speaking also gives us a chance to directly market our products.

• Frank Smith has done a lot to handle this with the LiftPort Ambassador program. To schedule a speaker, or become an ambassador, please visit that web site.
• To have a member of the LiftPort senior staff speak, contact events@liftport.com

1. Schedule more speaking engagements.
2. Find additional ways to monetize speaking engagements.

1. Make clicking into main store more intuitive on right side module

Identify outside media assets that can promote the LiftPort Space Elevator or other LiftPort branded products. Develop content for and promote those assets. Identify methods of monetizing those assets.

Flickr is probably the most widely known photo sharing service. Another service called Zooomr offers some more advanced features such as selling photos. However, there is currently no way to copy photos (with titles, descriptions, tags, etc.) from Flickr to Zooomr. Such a tool would be useful.

1. Put photos on Zooomr
2. Add comments to flickr photos with links that could benefit liftport financially

Tim Chemacki has volunteered to lead this effort.

• Get videos from Michael Laine
  • Edit/render videos as necessary
  • Add liftport.com watermark
  • Post to video sharing sites
• Discuss each video with Michael Laine
  • Write up detailed descriptions for each video
  • Add descriptions for each video to sites
• Update tags for each video
• Review and “favorite” related videos by other users
• Track video views and other metrics
• Get permissions to use any videos not “owned” by LiftPort

vSocial is a video sharing service with a few features unavailable on YouTube such as branding for players, ability to make money through ads, and the ability to pull feeds from Flickr, Twitter, etc. Some videos have been added, but the descriptions are not complete.

Need to create convert vSocial account to a commercial one to begin inserting ads. Initial attempts were unsuccessful. Currently waiting to hear from vSocial in response to support request.

YouTube is the most well-known video sharing service. Some videos have been added, but the descriptions are not complete.

Although Google owns YouTube, it also has its own separate video service. After adding videos to YouTube, we will also add them to Google Video. Some videos have been added, but the descriptions are not complete.

Ustream.tv provides the ability to stream live video as well as record live streams for later playback. This service needs to be further investigated.

1. Choose between Twitter and Jaiku
2. add to the sidebar.

http://www.myspace.com/

Second Life is a virtual world in which you can build things for others to visit and experience. Justin Schneider has volunteered to manage this project. If you are interested, tell Justin in the forum thread.

http://www.43things.com/

http://www.imeem.com