Talk:Organizational meeting

From Silicon Valley Commons

Agenda

• Review of project description
• Introduction of participants
  • Tell us your name, your background, what you bring to the group, want you want to get out of it
  • Take notes - will use them to create user pages
  • Break up into groups to interview members
  • Share with main group
  • Create user pages - browse tabs
  • How to get help
• Story process
  • Identify the subject
    • How would you do it?
      • Get in touch with nonprofits
      • Ask them to recommend
      • Ask them why they recommend – get an angle into the story
      • Ask permission to use them as a reference
      • Ask for names and contact info of others who may give background on the subject
      • Update the Story Ideas and Notes pages (Summary box)
  • Research the subject – how?
    • Read their website
    • Google them
    • Lexis/nexis, factiva etc
  • Create/edit the organization’s profile
  • Call the subject, set appointment to interview
  • Interview
  • Get images
  • Enter notes into a word processor
    • Why not edit directly? Preview & History
    • Create headings
    • Create bullet points
    • Create links (internal, interwiki, external)
    • Spell-check, review
  • Post into Discussion tab
  • Write the story
  • Post into Article
  • Upload and post images
  • Ask subject to review
  • Solicit comments from others (contributors, sources)
• Breakout
  • Identify themes
  • Plan stories based on basic info; talk about other prospects
  • Divide the work (at least two people per interview)
• Discuss with group
• What’s next?
  • Register
  • Edit user pages
  • Do the stories
  • Recruit contributors