Submitted by montgomeryl on Thu, 05\/28\/2009 – 5:30am<\/p>\n
May 27 JTM Stewards Call Notes \u2013 compiled by Leigh Montgomery<\/p>\n
Attendees:<\/p>\n
Peggy Holman
\nBarry Parr
\nSteve Hanson
\nLeigh Montgomery<\/p>\n
Website update:<\/p>\n
Steve wants to replace \u2018People\u2019 tab with Profiles of those who have \u2018signed on\u2019 on the JTM site \u2013 will be done by webmaster<\/p>\n
Jonathan Lawson, Michelle Ferrier and Peggy will discuss longer term direction for the site, to bring \u2018content out of conferences,\u2019[spaces] make it more visible, searchable, utilitarian<\/p>\n
Suggestion for discussion forum other than Google Groups<\/p>\n
JTM update:<\/p>\n
Three conversations going on:<\/p>\n
1. Bill Densmore: working on event to be held at Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA in September \u2013 pertains to civic engagement \u2013 will need more detail from Bill
\n2. Peggy:\u00a0 Exploring a possible first \u2013 a regional JTM event, around a (working) central question such as:\u00a0 How does journalism support the cultural health of a region?
\n3. Potential JTM event focused on people of color \u2013 similar to Silicon Valley event with intersection of tech and journalism, this would include outreach to journalism orgs, groups etc –<\/p>\n
Note: These last two are in a nascent stage, still getting focused \/ funding etc.<\/p>\n
Stephen Silha is speaking to Kellogg Foundation about supporting JTM as a whole \u2013 grant proposal needs to be put together<\/p>\n
Stewards issues:<\/p>\n
Are these calls useful?\u00a0 Or are we just getting together once a month and stammering at each other? Is that too frequent?\u00a0 Maybe every six weeks?<\/p>\n
Should we have a periodic conference call around a topic, perhaps selected by JTM participants, via discussion forum or web site? \u2013 check in with Maureen on next steps<\/p>\n
Leigh suggested having periodic updates, maybe every six months, on how things were going, what was getting traction from the conferences, ideas and processes that were working –
\nThis has crystalized around Leigh kicking this off, getting participants from the Poynter New News Ecology conference in March to submit their fruitage<\/p>\n
Suggestion from Peggy: have any JTM participant submit a video of up to 2 minutes for the site.
\nDiscussed getting people submitting these via twitter and posting to the site.<\/p>\n
Next Stewards Call:\u00a0 Wed July 8 unless any conflict \u2013 Maureen will set time, ideally 4 pm EST or 1 pm PST \u2013 this time worked well for everyone today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Submitted by montgomeryl on Thu, 05\/28\/2009 – 5:30am May 27 JTM Stewards Call Notes \u2013 compiled by Leigh Montgomery Attendees: Peggy Holman Barry Parr Steve Hanson Leigh Montgomery Website update: Steve wants to replace \u2018People\u2019 tab with Profiles of those … Continue reading