FSPQ PR Exercise

Ok guys. Here is our little experiment, The Four Star Platinum Squadron and Adele blowing up the spot:

1.  I picked an incredibly moving, epic, achingly beautiful and wholly *&%#$@g kick-ass Adele video for this exercise but you won’t know what it is until it is passed to you.  The video will be like we are seeing Adele’s performance “live” and we are all reacting to it, in character.
2.  The trick to this exercise is that we will whisper down the lane, if you remember that game. Each of you will pick ONE technology and one only. I’m the leader so I can use any of them but I go first and last in this exercise.  You can strategize about who uses what.
3. Decide which one technology you’ll use and post in "Technology Choices for Exercise" in Googledocs by Tuesday afternoon and Tweet when it is complete. You can’t each use the same technology. Remember I can use any of them so you don’t have to worry about what I will use.
4.  I will decide who gets the video first and the order people respond in. From there, the first person will describe what they see and offer details they think are important to the team. Remember your character and what your role is. Look at the profile you created for yourself. I want you to adopt your own description and be your character. Use language you would use as the “It Girl.” RJ, share techy observations and wonder aloud about how this is possible because of the internet. Amy, get into how the venue works to show how amazing she is, stuff like that.  Read our questions here and have them help guide your observations and reaction. Make a briefing to pass along.
5. That person can only send their briefing to ONE other person using their technology. The person can respond back to the previous person ONCE in the same way and then must move the message along via their own technology. Pretend we have a deadline and we don’t have time for an hour Skype session. This will emulate the fact that work is never ideal and we can’t have things perfect, even when communicating across time and distance.
6. Once the message has passed to the last of you, that person will send the message to me. I will then report the message back to everybody and we can see how well the collaboration survived from point A to point E. From there we can share how the message was limited by technology or maybe saved by how we anticipate and trust each other through interpersonal communication and why that is; in our case, we have built a relationship together through the real work we did already and that helps our fictional test somewhat. Again, look at the questions as a guide for observation.

Here’s an example:

• ·        Amy is sent a video of Adele and Matt getting married in Venice, with Adele serenading him while Matt eats a sandwich and does the Running Man. This is how it would actually go down in real life.
• ·         Amy describes what she sees and what she thinks is important for the team to know, through Skype, to RJ. He can clarify back with Amy ONCE through Skype, but only Skype. She also sends the link to the video forward with her briefing.
• ·         RJ now takes her message and Tweets it to Baeednah after he has added himself to it. Baeednah can only Tweet back to him ONCE for clarification. RJ also passes the link forward.
• ·         Baeednah can now take the message from RJ, clarify ONCE with RJ via Twitter, add to the message and forward to Matt via Blackboard chat or as a Googledoc chat or whatever. She sends the video forward too.
• ·         I take the combined message and post to the blog, along with the link to the video. We then compare notes on how it went on Wednesday night, making observations for the PPT. I think this will be an important part of our paper but the jist of the PPT.

Question: How do we make our fictional times work in this exercise?