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The CyberArmy Public Relations Group| Category | | | Summary | In the beginning overlord created brigades, one of
report if you like, was designed to give some indication of what it is we do, how we go about, some recent events in the brigade, and what we intend to do in the future. |
| | Body | In the beginning overlord created brigades, one of
which was the propaganda division, this article, or
report if you like, was designed to give some indication
of what it is we do, how we go about, some recent
events in the brigade, and what we intend to do in
the future.
The purple brigade is at present, going through some
exciting new changes of which I have detailed below:
"I'm going to change the Propaganda Command
into CyberArmy Public Relations. I was thinking about
that long time before. There were several reasons
why I wasn't doing it. Mostly of the aspect of adminstrative
work was motivating me to keep it.
But the Propaganda Command is in a restructration
phase and we also we are trying to be more an independent
brigade. We are switching our pages to non-cyberarmy
hosts. And the name change is now the next step.
Two important reasons I want to name because I
want to change the name. Firstly the aspect of the
expression of "propaganda" regarding the
world's history. Secondly and reflexive to the first
point is the fact that a lot of people see in the
name propaganda a bad thing. Someone wondered once
about my email signature. It contained a link to the
CyberArmy Propaganda command. He was asking me if
I'm trying to seduce them doing bad things.
I think it's also good being the Commander of
the Public Relations command rather then the Commander
of the Propaganda command when I'm negotiating with
people who might support us or so"
Self-explanatory really, a move for the better for
one of the most crucial brigades in CyberArmy.
The first, and most obvious is the alteration to
the brigade and other subgroups names and descriptions.
The following changes were made by CHiCoSTo:
- " Brigade name changed from CyberArmy Propaganda
to CyberArmy Public relations."
- Brigade description altered slightly to better
accommodate the new description: CyberArmy Public
Relations (Purple): " Public Relations (Division
Purple), also known as the Propaganda Command, is
involved in spreading the ideology of the CyberArmy
throughout the Web, in acquiring a better reputation
for CyberArmy and in making CyberArmy more known
in the Web. Members also help officers to be more
aware about what CyberArmy is and try to help them
to be better members. Members are good writers,
journalists, communicative, know how to get themselves
heard and like to work in teams. "
- " Other smaller changes were made within
the group itself; again to better comply with the
new title and description of the brigade. The web
design subgroup led by milchschnitte was altered
to Corporate Design (CD): The department is especially
responsible for realizing especially Web page (e.g.
CyberArmy Gallery) and Graphic Projects (e.g. Project
Purple) in order to help other Propaganda Subgroups
and the whole Propaganda Command itself. This implies
a more professional approach to our work and demonstrates
to organisations outside of the CyberArmy that we
are serious about our work, and thus should be taken
seriously.
- " Mediolanvm also had his subgroup's description
altered to better comply to the idea of relating
to people and it read as follows: Human Relations
(HR): This group is responsible for the internal
public work. This means the care and formation of
interpersonal relationship in the CyberArmy. We
are active on the several communication interfaces
wwwboards, IRC, etc.
Since all these changes were made, it would be wise
to go through the list of the aims of CAPR (CyberArmy
Public Relations). We strongly believe in the ideals
of CyberArmy as a whole. We support its aims and do
so to such an extent that we feel obliged to preach,
if you were, the message of CyberArmy to the Internet
community. CAPR aims to spread the ideology that we
educated members of the community should be able to
regulate the net ourselves, without government interference,
since it was educated individuals, not unlike ourselves,
that established the net in the very beginning. CAPR
is the voice of CyberArmy; we are the word and the
good news. CAPR supports open source projects and
software, we are anti child pornography and government
internet regulation, we intend to educate the net
community in a way so that individuals use their skills
wisely and not in a malicious fashion. CAPR was also
designed to better the reputation of the CyberArmy,
let it be known that we are not a spawning ground
for script kiddies and other individuals that sport
lame and/or black hats.
Groups like the CyberArmy media institute watch over
key projects such as the zZine, the radio station
and the gaming administration area.
Projects like these are fundamental in the preaching
of our ideology and in my opinion are the best mediums
CAPR currently has to do this by. The online news
zine zZine focuses on several issues: technical tutorials
and reviews (to propagate learning and education),
CyberArmy community news (information on other brigades
and general community news, obviously), Interviews
(with CA members as well as other figure heads of
the modern computing age), Editorials and even relatively
up to date cover stories.
The zZine is currently in the process of expansion
and relocation to a new host that will offer more
features to the staff involved, Revelation is the
key figure in this move, so we should all be grateful.
This relocation will allow us to add more features,
alter the layout, recruit more staff and turn the
zZine into an online zine that is more appealing to
individuals not of the CyberArmy.
The radio and gaming subgroups will play a key role
in slowing bringing people into the CA theme, Adverts
and news sketches will play a key role in displaying
our aim, while the music side of things keep people
tuned in. The same theory applies to gaming. A half
life modification called Counter-strike is one of
the most popular online games, a high speed server
will keep people coming back, and these individuals
may become friendly with CA staff and decide to view
the url associates with the games server.
The corporate design team is an effective means by
which CAPR can broadcast its aims in an eye pleasing
fashion, graphics departments within this group demonstrate
much proficiency and the end result is a professional
site from which we can base out operations. This team
is crucial in reaching out to the general consensus
in a professional fashion, this group demonstrates,
through their work that we are serious and thus should
be taken seriously.
Project purple, again fits very well into CAPR, its
task is to create CyberArmy themes (wallpapers, skin,
screensavers and the like). These winamp, ICQ and
other explorer skins will be available for public
download from a site which will be designed to maximise
first impressions and in general help CyberArmy become
more widely known and seen in a better light.
The ePolicy and eLaw Department is another key part
of the CAPR team, its aims revolve around the establishment
of new projects on an international level. The team
composes of writers, researchers, media analyst, journalists,
business studiers and people with economics knowledge.
Essentially a team of writers that produce documents
to those ends. The group was at one time responsible
for the construction of the CA charter; Blackathena
aided Revelation when he was in the CyberArmy intelligence
agency in constructing something along those lines.
External media relation is fundamental to the efficient
function of CAPR. This group concentrates around the
spreading of CyberArmy ideology via external mediums,
for example internet radios and e zines. Since the
goals are similar to that of the media institute,
the two groups often find themselves working side
by side, both focusing on the same goal. Subgroups
which designate the tasks of both relations with the
streaming media side, TV, radio and the like, as well
as the static media group which focuses its attention
more on newspapers and magazines are also of great
aid to the CAPR and the cause of the CyberArmy.
The working together idea applies to much of CAPR
in fact, the brigade works as a single unit most of
the time, one brigade, not independent groups within
the main brigade (subgroups being formalities to simply
designate primary objective). Members work together,
help one another out with projects, lend a hand at
writing or editing, site design and graphics, whatever
is needed to get the job done.
Human relations is going to be absolutely key to the
public relations group now, since we aim to be speak
with humans (CA members mainly in this case), we cannot
function without this group. It has 2 main functions,
the first being to act as an information filter. Information
that is displayed on higher boards may be of use to
lower ranking officers, this group selects which posts
may be relevant, edits them if need be, and feeds
the information down onto the lower ranking web boards.
This team also has the role of mediator in that it
discusses issues with CyberArmy members and informs
people of the happenings of CA in a fair and objective
way. In essence, it focuses its attention on internal
public work.
The final piece of the CAPR puzzle, that makes this
brigade complete, is the Research and merchandising
institute. Again this group has multitasks to focus
in upon, the first being to analyse the populous,
both within CA and outside of it, and discover more
efficient techniques to preach the proverbial word
(or gospel if you prefer). Its second purpose is come
up with new merchandise for CyberArmy in order to
help fund the organisation. It uses the research gained
from one of its subgroups to create CyberArmy braded
products (e.g. Mouse mats, mugs, boxer shorts, hats,
T-shorts ect.) to not only make money, but also raise
awareness of the organisation as a whole.
In the future, CAPR aims to expand, grow and evolve,
relocation to new hosting will aid not only the brigade,
but CA as a whole, since less bandwidth will be consumed
as hit counts increase. The activity of the brigade
is one of its strong points. Activity on IRC is high,
members communicate frequently and there is no rivalry
between groups and/or members. The brigade commander
too is active, which is often unheard of in other
brigades; he aids in all groups and helps out wherever
is needed. CAPR demonstrates its achievements not
only by the hall of fame counts, but the clear evidence
of its projects succeeding. The zZine being the primary
example of one of CAPRs flourishing projects.
Kernel reeferman
C/O CyberArmy Media institute
Subgroup of the CyberArmy Public Relations
Marshal CHiCoSTo
C/O CAPR - CyberArmy Public Relations
CyberArmy Brigade Commander
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