Agendas and notes for conference calls, and also a list of upcoming conference calls.

Upcoming conference calls

None currently scheduled.

Instructions for setting up a conference call

1) choose a time. Midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) at 5 PM Pacific/8 PM Eastern often works well; so does Saturday at 2 PM Pacific/8 PM Eastern, and lets people with "unlimited weekend minutes" cell phone plans dial in.

2) reserve the time on freeconference.com (or whatever other calling service you're using)

3) create a Facebook event. [Note: you'll need to be an admin in the Facebook group to do this.]

• go to the Facebook group and click Create related event
• fill it in with the basics (and remember to include a logo), including calling information. see examples here and here
  
• on "step 3: guest list", click at the top right to send an invitation to the entire group.

4) create a MyBO event and send it to the email lists

5) create a blog post, describing the conference call and with a rough agenda, with links out to the FB and MyBO events, and ask people for input before the call. Finalize the agenda before the call.

6) on the day of the call:

• send messages to the event attendees on Facebook (click "Message guests", and then select "Accepted" from the pull-down menu) with a reminder and link to the agenda and calling info
• ditto for MyBO
• bring the chat room up to use as a backchannel: http://chatterous.com/gfrchat
  

5) add it to the next "blast