ICMA promotes development of national, media, working groups as local affiliates to promote communications, media work and coverage for and about democratic change throughout the world. The alliance encourages innovative lines of communication, news announcements, and feeds to enable stories about democracy to reach broader audiences. In particular, ICMA develops means for accrediting affiliates o
f national working-groups and credentialing citizen and community journalists as the third wave in journalism. The Occupy Coordination server provides worldwide voice-channels for movement media and press briefings with alternative and even mainstream journalists. These voice Channels are available seven days per week, 24 hours per day via computer, tablet, or smart phone. IMPORTANT: For instructions see occupycoordination.org. Our editors and volunteers are available to work with nonviolent movements for democracy to assist them with developing media relations teams. Free Mumble Software and Apps. Once you download the free software, From the Server Menu Open Connection to add a new server. Then enter the following essential information:
Password: occupy
Address: occupycoordination.com
Port: 64738
Label: (You should enter a brief name here, such as: OC Mumble, US Mumble, Occupy Coordination or Media Alliance or ICMA, but something you can easily recognize)). IGNORE any Certificate Error or Failure Notices. These are invalid for this server. Certificates are not used. Be sure to examine the choices in the Configure Menu at the top of the screen. Run the audio wizard, adjust microphone volume, etc, and set up the push-to-talk feature--remember to select a short-cut key to use when you want to speak. Otherwise your microphone will always be open and can cause feedback problems. When you connect to the server, go to Tech Chat channel/room, down the list of channels, and CLICK on it. , enter some text, such as new user or assistance into the small text box in the lower-left side of the window. This will alert tech support a new user needs assistance setting up with "Push to Talk" and any other audio needs. A video is also available via YouTube. "Push to Talk is an essential feature to configure, so ask for assistance via chat. Once set up, you can easily also access other Mumble servers. and other things. Any questions, ask tech support. And, for additional instructions about downloading and installing Mumble, including downloads for many many different versions of Mumble, see the instructions for the main server for English speakers and some other languages involved in political action and social networking at OccupyTalk:
http://occupytalk.org/
For additional technical support e-mail [email protected] for the occupycoordination.com server , and for assistance on occupytalk.org Mumble voice-conferencing, see their Website. The new Web site for the international media alliance is being set up at: altmedia2.org in reference to alternative-alternative journalism, the next wave in news. This is community journalism developing as the global voice of the ninety-nine percent!
