<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Eden, wont be coming to Somerville, SAT. 8pm. The volunteer coordination, activist building group is also meeting at the same time .. I haven't gotten the notes yet, e</div><div><b>And much of what you want is on <a href="http://groups.occupyboston.org">groups.occupyboston.org</a></b><br></div><div><br></div><div>Tonight the Street Working Group had a meeting and quickly came to the decision that as we're in this period of transitioning to a post-Dewey OB, <b>what we need most is an intentional effort to build strong systems and processes for internal communication and navigation</b>. Right now, there is understandable confusion and lack of coordination, so we have launched an "Inreach" team to help build and repair networks of communication that will allow us to address our community's issues and needs as a unified body.</div><blockquote id="replyBlockquote" webmail="1" style="border-left: 2px solid blue; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px; font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:verdana;"><div id="wmQuoteWrapper"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>And wanted to let U know much of what U R looking for is on <a href="http://groups.occupyboston.org">groups.occupyboston.org</a><br></div><div><u>Some issues that we brainstormed...</u></div><div><u><br></u></div><div>-Imbalance of workload (too much work on too few people)... <b>a self-serve intake for volunteers, with clear ways for WG to leave information for them.</b><br></div><div>-Emails are excessive and overwhelming ...<b> Use the 'forum' tool .. I haven't tried it yet at least in theory it works, Martin likes it.</b><br></div><div>-People and groups are working on the same issues and not aware of it .. f<b>rom groups it is really easy to check in on other groups, especially the ones you are a member of </b><br></div> <div>-multiple WG's are overlapping <b>... see above</b><br></div><div>-Unclear working groups and the need to <u>consolidate </u><b>... and easy to do via hopping ove to the neighbor's WG site</b><u><br></u></div><div>-We need <u>Announcement</u> forums and <u>Discussion </u> f<b>orums FORUM and WG calendar with both truly public calendar items and 'private' to your group items IE, I can add a calendar item that doesn't fill-up the calendar for people who don't care what my Thanksgiving days are however, when logged in FSU can see when each of us is coming back ... really helpful for the holidays.</b><br></div><div>-A lack of consistency in meeting times for WG's = hard to plug in .. <b>WG calendar</b>, <b>we are mandated by GA to have predictable meetings ... and not really enough days in the week.</b><br></div> <div>-no methods for security in communication <b>see <a href="http://freeschooluniversity.org">freeschooluniversity.org</a> see web privacy, we're just getting started</b><br>
</div><div>-the need for calendar updates and calendar blasts .. <b>calendar is workign at groups and OBIT may be working on a blast .. not sure what is a priority to them just now. .. The admin can send an email 'blast' from groups but, would have to write it.</b><br></div><div>-Its hard to find contacts for groups .<b>. all listed, these are I believe the people who moderate or admin the lists.</b><br></div><div>-Hard to get the ball rolling on any ideas <b>.. I think forum can do this for us ...</b></div><div><b>and while U R there check out the group I get going so, volunteers can be self-serve, autonomous and self-directed .. and welcome in their own time, welcome to look or sign-up ...</b></div><div><b>In Solidarity, eden<br></b></div><div><br> </div><div><br></div><div>In light of these concerns the Inreach team is calling for a <font class="ecxApple-style-span" size="4">meeting this Saturday night 12/17 ay 8pm at <u>___________</u></font> (you may have to leave GA early).</div> <div><br></div><div>We need <b>people with ideas, <font class="ecxApple-style-span" color="#3333ff">people who are well-connected in OB and therefore naturally understand how communication currently works</font>, and people with experience in organizational communication. Of course, ALL ARE WELCOME.</b></div> <div><b><br></b></div><div><b>PLEASE BRING PROPOSALS AND PATIENCE!!!</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div>You can do anything you want, as long as you don't wait for permission.<br> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> <hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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