[Winona Online Democracy]
Title: Mtg 2/10/04 4:00 pm Wenonah Room City
hall
We're slated for our every other month steering committee
meeting
next Tues February 10th at 4:00 pm City Hall Wenonah Room
( front door locks at 4:30, you can call mtg room at 457-8280 if
you're way late!!)
Tentative Agenda
-City Manager Discussion on Potential City Issues and Utility of
WOD
- Issues in WOD list management and support--
Survey
Another
survey will be done of subscriber perceptions of WOD in February (with
questions being finalized at the February meeting). Please
submit any questions, you'd liked asked to the full subscriber list by
Feb 8th to Kathy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sponsoring Forum on Patriot Act
- Insights into involving High School Age students in WOD??
-Other
All subscribers are welcome to attend
(if you have other agenda items please submit)
WOD
STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
Agenda:
-efforts at promotion; increasing the mix and number of
subscribers.
(use of postcard, report on booth at Fair, 3rd yr)
-your insights from survey for WOD direction
-impressions on day to day in WOD from moderators---- CONSIDERING ROLE
OF MODERATORS AND POSSIBLE CHANGES
-possible
links to Crucial Conversations
PS.. The building locks at 4:30- I'd assume anyone coming would be in
by then... If you come late, the phone number in the Wenonah Room is
457-8280. There is a phone in front of Midtown.
Notes: present Roy Nasstrom, Kathy Seifert, and
Randy Schenkat
A
combination of circumstances conspired against attendance: a computer
error in WOD postings caused only the group of people who
have attended previous steering committee meetings to have a tentative
announcement of this meeting( sorry about that- still don't see the
message in the Archives). Also, it was somewhat of an ominous day
weather wise..
The three of us had a good discussion.
Some stats on WOD for Oct and Nov were shared:
There were 125 posts in October and 175 posts in November; both are
well above the historical average of 3 per day. In
October, 5 topics garnered 75% of the posts. Those were:
school board formats(20%), Site teams(6%), Community Education(6%),
Walmart-zoning, signs, wages(15%) and Insurance (28%). There were 11
other topics. In November, 5 topics garnered 80% of the
posts. Those were: Walmart-zoning, signs,wages(27%), insurance
(18%), WOD/NPR-Schild(15%), Council Pay Increase(12%), and Hate
Crimes-Evergreen(8%). There were 6 other topics.
It was concurred that it was useful to look at traffic on WOD it this
way, and this summary technique will be use at each steering committee
meeting
It was also requested, what we learn every two months how many
individuals have newly subscribed, how many have unsubscribed and
resubscribed.
Kathy
Seifert shared some of the challenges of being a moderator.
One was the seeming stoppage of a threaded discussion when a synthesis
of comments are made and some further probing questions asked.
Another was a sense that some subscribers think moderators serve too
much like "cops". Another survey will be
done of subscriber perceptions of WOD in February (with questions
being finalized at the February meeting). Please submit any
questions, you'd liked asked to the full subscriber list by Feb 8th to
Kathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'd like to especially
focus on the process of how WOD is functiioning and what might
be improved. It was also pledged by Schenkat to do a much more prompt
job in getting survey results tallied and posted at web site for
subscriber reaction.
Regarding the perennial topic - of increasing representativeness and
numbers participating in WOD, a few strategies were
mentioned:
-Visit with Councilman Breza on issues that will be emerging for City
Council and see how WOD could work with Council on reaching more
citizens and tapping into citizen creative thinking
-Visit with Winona Daily News to continue discussions of how WOD can
work more in tandem with WDN
-Work with the planned community health care forums to engender more
of a virtual participation around the forums.
-Work to encourage more University and High School student involvement
in WOD.
(please
contact Randy Schenkat if you have interest in any of the 4 strategy
areas above)
The next
meeting will be held on February 10( the 2nd Tues of every other
month) at 4 pm in the Wenonah Rooom of City Hall.
--
Randy Schenkat 1358 Skyline Dr. Winona, Mn
55987 507-452-7168
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