[Winona Online Democracy]
Title: WOD Steering Committee Mtg
6/8/04
The Steering Committee will
meet on Tues June 8th in Wenonah Room of City Hall at 4
pm
Please come and help shape the
future course of WOD....
Tentative agenda
1- role of facilitation....
volunteers requested.. see notes below
2.- relationship to MN
EDemocracy... your feedback- see notes below and go to
archives for full post
3. -issue of local and
national
4. -what did we learn from
Schild's survey
http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2004/05/12/opinion/00guest512.txt
5- Other
Randy Schenkat
Meeting Results
WOD Steering Committee:
4/13/04 4 pm Wenonah Room
Atttendees: Kathy Seifert, Roy Nasstrom, and Randy
Schenkat
Major Areas
1. Seeking volunteer to be co-facilitator
2. Relationship to Minnesota E Democracy (MED)
3. Coming Topics-- Rise of Creative Class Following
up on City of Winona's initiated discussion on Pelzer Street- we
will be doing a discussion on Economic Development coinciding with
Richard Florida's Shakepeare Festival's Back Porch Discussion of
"The Rise of Creative Class" in July
4. Stats for last 2/3s of Feb
ave of 5 posts per day with March at about 2.3 posts per
day.
1. Seeking volunteer to be co-facilitator
- We're reminded of how fast time flies. Sharon Ropes signed
up for a 6 month stint approximately 18 months ago. Sharon is
president elect of the MN PTA among a host of other civic involvement
roles and would like to step down as co- facilitator. If
you're interested in serving with Kathy Seifert- please contact
her([EMAIL PROTECTED]) about the nature of the duties of being a
facilitator for WOD- a vital role and one we don't appreciate
enough. Thank you Sharon for all you've given to WOD.
2. Relationship to Minnesota E Democracy (MED)
Steve Clift has asked us to formalize our relationship to MED, Steve
Kranz offers a rationale, and we ask your feedback on the proposed
"rules" that would apply to all "chapters" of
MED. Please send any comments you have back to
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by April 23rd
o the proposed "rules" so we can send in a Winona
response.
Part 1 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:17:59 -0600
I haven't pushed Winona on the official Chapter stuff, but at
some
point I'd like all the forums to have more formal local
governance.
Any thoughts? Perhaps you could help start a conversation.
Think
Lions, Rotary and a future where Winonans reach out to folks in
LaCrosse and Rochester to help them get a chapter going someday.
It
easy to feel snug in the valley, but what you guys are doing
should
spread round the world!
Cheers, Steve
Part 2. Steve Kranz' rationale- He's been our prime contact
with MED
(a role Roy Nasstrom will assume given Steve's move to
cities)
Roy,
The relationship between Minnesota E-Democracy and
W.O.D. has always been a loose one -- I believe we say that WOD is
"affiliated" with MED. A few months after WOD got off
the ground, we got into discussions with MED about working together
and mutually agreed that we would both benefit through some sort of
affiliation. I think this relationship has been mutually beneficial.
WOD has benefited from MED's experience, advice and the mentoring from
their more experienced moderators. It is important to
note, also, that WOD was set up directly on the model designed by
MED.
The association has also raised the profile of WOD
and is mostly the reason that WOD has been recognized at the state,
national and international level (We've been invited in the past to
present information about it at various locations including Washington
D.C. and Christchurch New Zealand (I only got to participate in that
one by phone, unfortunately). Steve Clift travels the world
talking about online civic communication and WOD is a regular part of
his speeches.
At this point, it is my understanding that MED is
working towards formalizing its relationships with the various groups
that have (or want to have) a local civic forum. The direction
they are going in is the "chapter" model (like the rotary
club) in which there would be a larger structure and rule system, but
much flexibility in local management of the lists. I think they
view their relationship with Winona as the model to
follow.
I would strongly urge WOD to maintain its
relationship with MED and play an active part in defining exactly what
that relationship is. I think it is important to have access to
a larger cadre of people who spend much time thinking through the
issues faced by online civic forums. I also think it is
important for WOD to maintain flexibility in managing the list in a
way that works locally and allows it to retain its
identity.
If you want to read about the events that led to
the creation of WOD, you can visit:
<http://www.civicideas.com/mcl-article.html>http://www.civicideas.com/mcl-article.html
Hope that helps. Let me know if you'd like
any more information.
-Steve Kranz
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