meetings

The next Launch Team meeting will be at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 6th 2009 at the West Suburban YMCA. 
Directions can be found
here: http://www.westsuburbanymca.org/main/contact_us/directions_to_our_ymca/

As was the last meeting, this meeting will focus on how best
to spread the word about the site.  At this point we
are still especially in need of outreach to organizations to contribute
their content to the site.  We've had a few active contributors since
the site went live but need to broaden the circle!

If you happen upon this post and haven't yet participated in the
planning process, feel free to join us at the meeting if you're
interested!

RSVP for the meeting by emailing dcrowley@socialcapitalinc.org 

We hope to see you there!

Today's meeting was a good opportunity to get re-focused on OurNewton! Two key areas were discussed:

Design Focused on choosing website themes, based on those available via Drupal and the comments we'd received to date. Andrew Gibson, who has replaced Mike Sances as SCI's lead technical contact for OurNewton, will be: 1) sending to group members some information to elicit feedback on colors for the website; and 2) doing a mock-up of the home page based on the themes the group liked.

Outreach Some progress has been made reaching out to groups--LaTonya in particular reported a good deal of progress in September. The general consensus was that once the site has been established with the look & feel we are working on, it will then be a more opportune time for a big outreach campaign. Our target is to prioritize the site design work to have that wrapped up by the Nov. meeting.

Meanwhile, key outreach tasks for everyone:
-collect names/emails of people who would like to receive regular OurNewton updates (these weekly messages are an excellent way to keep the site in front of people and prompt them to add content). SCI will send a few major mass emails to promote the site, especially when we are ready to launch in November...but people will need to "opt in" to receive the regular OurNewton emails.
-group members should begin adding new content relevant for the fall season (especially with an eye to things happening in Nov. & beyond).

Next meeting Mon., Nov. 3, 1 p.m. @ the JCC Details to follow.
Today's agenda is attached for more information.