Severed Fifth has the goal of creating a worldwide base of fans; The Street Team. The local Street Teams work to advocate and bring the music and our philosophy to their area and have a lot of fun in the process. To make the music happen and get the word out there we need all the help we can get; and we want you to be a part of it. Find out more about what Severed Fifth Street Teams do by seeing the Street Team page.

Contents 1 How To Create a Team 2 Create a Team 2.1 If There is a Team in Your Area 2.2 No Team in Your Area? 3 Communication 4 Build Buzz 5 Organize Projects 6 Comments

How To Create a TeamEdit

Creating a Street Team involves the following simple steps:

1. Create a Team - See if an existing teams is in your area. If not, create a team and add it to the community.
2. Communication - Set up your communication channel.
3. Build Buzz - Spread the word and find members to join the team.
4. Organize Some Projects - work together as a team to spread the word about Severed Fifth!

Let's take a look at each of these steps to get you up and running as quickly as possible!

Create a TeamEdit

Getting started is easy!

First step to to check the local teams page for one already in your area. That page shows all the different street teams, and if you click on each team it provides some information for each on that page. Contact information for community leaders is on the page, and they would be happy to answer any questions you have about the Street Team.

If There is a Team in Your AreaEdit

If there is already a team in your area, we recommend you join that team instead of dupicating effort. It is as easy as wanting to help out and make friends in the process! If you like Severed Fifth and want to spread the word, you are all set to join the Street Team! To join, just join the communication channel that the team uses and introduce yourself. All set!

No Team in Your Area?Edit

Go ahead and start one!

Creating a team is fun and easy, and we are always here to help. Feel free to jump right in and get things going. We like movers and shakers and would be happy to hear from you about your activities in the Street Team and certainly will offer help or answer any questions you have. Keep on rocking! \m/

To get started, add an entry to the local Street Teams page everyone knows about your team. There is a template page so it is simply a case of editing that page, copying the content to your new page and editing it as appropriate. You should also make a post on the forums so everyone knows about your new team and can join up if they are in your area.

CommunicationEdit

Now you have a street team, you should consider how you intend for the team members to communicate with each other. How will you provide them with updates on what the team is doing? How can they participate and help you?

One popular method of keeping in touch is to use a Facebook Group. If most of your team use Facebook, this is a simple and convenient way of having conversations and planning projects together.

Here is how you create Facebook Group:

1. Go to http://www.facebook.com/groups/ and click the Create Group button.
2. Enter a name for the group – I recommend you call it the Severed Fifth <insert area here> Street Team (e.g. I called mine Severed Fifth Bay Area Street Team) as this helps all of the Severed Fifth Street Teams appear when doing a search on Facebook.
3. You can also invite people to join. Don’t just spam people, but do invite people who have expressed an interest in joining.
4. Finally, be sure to add your team to the list of Severed Fifth Street Teams and add your Facebook Group there as your website.

In addition to ensuring your team can chat to each other, we also recommend you keep in touch with other people in the Severed Fifth Street Team community (such as folks from other teams. We have two main methods of keeping in touch:

• The Forum - the discussion forum is where we communicate together as a wider community. In particular, check out the Street Team Forum.
• The Chat Channel - this is a real-time text chat channel. This is a great way to chat to Severed Fifth community members right now.

All set!

Build BuzzEdit

With your team all set up and a place for you all to communicate, now you need to find some members and ask them to join the team. Before you get started, you should ensure your Street Team page that you created on the wiki has some simple steps that explain how folks join the team and join your communication channel. This is often as simple as joining the Facebook Group.

It is important to make sure that the instructions for joining - we don't want people to express an interest and then get confused at how to join.

With that all set, we recommend you do each of the following to find more members:

• If you use Facebook, Twitter, identi.ca, Bebo etc, point people to your Street Team page on the wiki and invite people to join.

• If you are using Facebook Groups for your communication channel (as discussed earlier), send an invitation to your Facebook friends to join the group.

• If you have a blog or a website, add something to encourage people to join.

• Post about your new team in the Severed Fifth Street Team forum.

• Post a message on forums and bulliten boards about music and Free Culture in your local area, encouraging people to join.

• Reach out to local user groups and clubs in your area (e.g. music clubs, rock society's, Open Source user groups etc) and encourage folks to join.

• Put up posters in music and computer stores in your area - make sure your posters have contact details for how people join your group - see the Street Team Materials page for some useful resources.

• Go to local metal, rock and music nights at bars and clubs and hand out some flyers and tell people about the team. See the Street Team Materials page for some printable flyers.

Good luck!

Organize ProjectsEdit

You only need a few members to join and you are all set to start going out and having fun promoting and spreading the word about Severed Fifth.

To help get your started, we have created this list of simple bitesize things you can get started with. Be sure to let us know how you get on the Street Team Forum so we can help show off your good work!

Thanks, and keep on rocking!