[DDN] Town meetings
Can anybody answer this question sent to me by a friend? Q: I've been assigned the task of developing an 'electronic town meeting' for Evergreen by our local Chamber of Commerce. Any single piece of advice or resource that might be more valuable than others? Larry Elin Television, Radio, Film Dept. S.I. Newhouse School Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13210 (315)443-3415 ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Town meetings
I've conducted dozens of electronic meetings. Rule One: Keep It Simple Stupid. Rule Two: Use free telephone conferencing systems where callers pay ordinary costs of a call to some location in the United States. I use www.mrconference.com. Works just fine. Rule Three: Set up a blog and point people to it. Rule Four: A simple web page with a simple, short URL works best. On that web page, put a short description of what viewers can if they link to same. List these with a Arabic Numbers - 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. When talking about them over the phone, all that needs to be mentioned is the Arabic number. Rule Five: Text chat rooms work fine for those who can be on the phone and on the Net. Write me if you would like to use ours. Though there are better ones, including ones to with archive and instant hyperlink capability from the text area...a nice feature for those in the chat room who want those on the phone to learn more about themselves or topics related to the conversation. Rule Six - Cut by 2/3rds the number of people you think will attend and you will get be more accurate. People are really busy and getting real time attendance is a hard one. Rule Seven: For small money you can record. But I am not sure that is worth it, unless you think you can get a radio station to air the conversation, in which case it is WELL worth it. (Larry Elin, you should be in position to help with that - getting conversations aired on community and university radio stations is a pet project of mine...which I have failed to do...but keep trying. Larry?) BUT - the value of voices talking in a call center, cheaply and affordably, is a wonderful thing to knit the leadership together. John Hibbs http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs At 9:19 AM -0400 10/19/04, Larry Elin wrote: Can anybody answer this question sent to me by a friend? Q: I've been assigned the task of developing an 'electronic town meeting' for Evergreen by our local Chamber of Commerce. Any single piece of advice or resource that might be more valuable than others? Larry Elin Television, Radio, Film Dept. S.I. Newhouse School Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13210 (315)443-3415 ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Town meetings
Rather than a blog, try a forum such as CWIS offers. Once installed, it's fairly easy to use. http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/CWIS/downloads.php?PHPSESSID=d8a78bdc99adc772e39f8747cb9b39aa ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
RE: [DDN] Town meetings
My single piece of advice would be to start by getting information about more exactly what they think they want (in terms of functionality, not technology). Something referred to as 'electronic town meeting' could be all sorts of things... Lisa Hinely [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512-836-8452 PO Box 4233, Austin TX 78765 Nonprofit Technology and Management -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry Elin Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 7:19 AM To: Diigtal Divide Subject: [DDN] Town meetings Can anybody answer this question sent to me by a friend? Q: I've been assigned the task of developing an 'electronic town meeting' for Evergreen by our local Chamber of Commerce. Any single piece of advice or resource that might be more valuable than others? ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Town meetings
Larry Elin wrote: Can anybody answer this question sent to me by a friend? Q: I've been assigned the task of developing an 'electronic town meeting' for Evergreen by our local Chamber of Commerce. Any single piece of advice or resource that might be more valuable than others? I think my only advice would be to look at the people who are wanted to participate, and what means which they have to do so. -- Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxgazette.com http://www.a42.com http://www.worldchanging.com http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. Ayn Rand ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Town meetings
Take a look at www.americaspeaks.org/final -- the site is in beta -- i'd be happy to answer questions. Lars torres -- Researcher, americaspeaks 802-223-4288 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/19/04 9:19 AM, Larry Elin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody answer this question sent to me by a friend? Q: I've been assigned the task of developing an 'electronic town meeting' for Evergreen by our local Chamber of Commerce. Any single piece of advice or resource that might be more valuable than others? Larry Elin Television, Radio, Film Dept. S.I. Newhouse School Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13210 (315)443-3415 ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
