Facilitator: Dylan
Note Taker: Olivia
Time Keeper: Izzie
Sherm: We miss you
Location: Kalkin 001
Tasks Complete
·
Met with Ben for 2 hours and got a full rundown
on his vision, his journey, and experience with NGR thus far.
·
Acquired interview video of Dr. W around NGR and
will prepare follow up questions if necessary.
·
Received reply from Ben with edited deliverables
and goals. Feedback well received.
What next?
· Content
planning (outline NGR’s narrative + key points):
·
Define target audience (‘millennials’ and
‘interested bystanders’)
·
Frame as Public Education Campaign,
(“Participatory Democracy in Vermont”)
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Educate audience on legislative process,
effective advocacy, and the power-dynamic in Montpelier. What is the best to do
that—research?
·
Choose several (3-5) bills to profile that are
active in the legislature and will be voted on this year. Each member pick bill?
·
Tackled
by everyone to familiarize ourselves with the platform, it’s functions, etc.
· Layout
an ‘editorial calendar’ and begin deploying content distribution strategy to build
NGR’s email list and social media presence (“seeding” for the crowdfunding
campaign)
·
Blog* Return
to class on Monday with a lead on a topic. Profile Ben. Consider pitching
deliverable to another source (VT Digger, even bigger?)
·
Facebook* Request
to become admins
·
Twitter
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Youtube*
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Podcast
· Outline
our vision for a video—script? Content? Brainstorm.
Challenges
·
Many ideas—how can we condense our brilliance
into a simple deliverable?
·
Ben isn’t 100% certain about what he’s looking
for. Great to have freedom, but we have to innovate a lot on our own
Rewarding Elements
·
Ben is a very inspiring figure and will be a
very awesome person to work with. It doesn’t seem like we will struggle much
getting feedback from him.
What are we doing well?
·
We’ve got the passion
·
We’re all on the same page about a vision
·
Responsive
What to work on?
·
Actually creating content/media platforms/conducting
research to send to Ben for initial feedback on our projection.
"Many ideas — how can we condense our brilliance into a simple deliverable?" - Oh, the struggle! But truly, translating big ideas into tangible actions takes skill. Solid update and good progress.
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