{"id":153,"date":"2005-10-10T15:35:40","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T23:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/kalamazoo\/?p=153"},"modified":"2016-06-14T15:37:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T23:37:44","slug":"how-to-sustain-the-energy-and-connectedness-of-the-group-so-as-to-generate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/kalamazoo\/2005\/10\/10\/how-to-sustain-the-energy-and-connectedness-of-the-group-so-as-to-generate-action\/","title":{"rendered":"How to sustain the energy and connectedness of the group so as to generate action?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Convener:<\/strong> Jim Shaffer<\/p>\n

Note taker:<\/strong> Jim Shaffer<\/p>\n

Initial attendees:<\/strong> Ralph Gage, Bill Krasean, Nora Paul, Chris Peck, Steve Silha, Dueane Stoltzfus,<\/p>\n

What future action?<\/p>\n

Ralph: Here\u2019s a wild ass idea: I know ________, Chris\u2019s brother, who\u2019s a hardworking journalist at a small daily. Hasn\u2019t had a day off in years, why not create a SWAT team of journalism professors and students that could take over his paper for a week and give him a vacation? The idea would be a match people with portable skills that need experience with temporary experiences.<\/p>\n

Duane: Another idea would be to develop an economic template \u2013 a cookbook \u2013 for journalists that don\u2019t know the business side to fill out the blanks and test the economics of the new venture ideas.<\/p>\n

Bill: I\u2019d like to see a website that connects us all. Who\u2019s doing this now?<\/p>\n

(Dan earlier volunteered to add this to his school\u2019s site with links. Need Dan.)<\/p>\n

Nora: We need to free ourselves up with a planning grant \u2026<\/p>\n

Steve: Kellogg said they were interested.<\/p>\n

Nora: Would like to do more research on different models of news \u201cownership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris: We need to re-think who needs to be connected to develop last night\u2019s idea.<\/p>\n

Several: Let\u2019s ask Fetzer to help us flesh out last night\u2019s idea and write a grant proposal to Kellogg.<\/p>\n

90-day window?<\/p>\n

Nora: We need a real live organization to work with.<\/p>\n

Chris: So we need to<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Identify and convene the key people to flesh out the vision<\/li>\n
  2. Polish the vision<\/li>\n
  3. Go for some foundation money to plan<\/li>\n
  4. Go for a existing news org partner that needs help with the future<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (Peggy Holman joins)<\/p>\n

    Nora: Thinking about Forum Communications, they might say, \u201cTake our newsroom \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

    Several: Averse to big media organizations. Too slow \u2026 Need agile partners.<\/p>\n

    Peggy: Too soon to choose target partners?<\/p>\n

    Jim S: Could at least choose criteria as part of the grant proposal. Fetzer can help us find \u2026<\/p>\n

    Duane: Remember PM in NYC? It attracted energy and talent from many journalists. Such experimentation DOES tie with healthy journalists.<\/p>\n

    Ralph, Chris:\u00a0\u00a0 (Once the planning grant $$ is in) start with a specific proposal to a target organization. Ralph: Caveat! First one or two shouldn\u2019t be in a competitive market. Need fault tolerant environments.<\/p>\n

    Peggy: Create a model that would help \u2026others \u2026 rescue markets.<\/p>\n

    Nora: Like college towns. Receptive to journalism.<\/p>\n

    Peggy: Editor of Biloxi looking \u2026<\/p>\n

    Jim S: Switching subjects, how to keep the connectedness?<\/p>\n

    Peggy: Perhaps a monthly conference call, open to all interested \u2026<\/p>\n

    JS: Combine with dynamic website for all to watch during the call?<\/p>\n

    (Dan Gilmor joins, Jim reviews)<\/p>\n

    Dan: Can offer a group blog w\/ discussion capability, maybe internal e-mail<\/p>\n

    Nora agreed to work with Dan to set up a community site, categories include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Healthy Journalists<\/strong><\/p>\n

    New economic models<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Duane: Be sure to allow for personal connection<\/p>\n

    Ralph: Make it searchable so we can go back and extract\u2026 interest\u2026 around various topics<\/p>\n

    (Lew Friedland joins)<\/p>\n

    Dan: Keep this private? Or allow public.<\/p>\n

    (discussion)<\/p>\n

    Peggy: Whoever comes is the right person \u2026<\/p>\n

    Chris: But need to clarify the purpose of the site \u2026<\/p>\n

    Nora: 3 threads?<\/p>\n

    Continuing the work of this retreat<\/p>\n

    Planning for a project<\/p>\n

    World wide white board<\/p>\n

    (Linda Grdina joins)<\/p>\n

    Peggy: Q is how \u201ccontained?\u201d The energy sits in the room, but more a field than a bowl.<\/p>\n

    JS: Time\u2019s almost up. Let\u2019s review Monday morning tasks.<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Ask Fetzer for one more round with eye toward creating<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Foundation $$<\/p>\n

      Operating partner<\/p>\n

      Platform for continuing this energy<\/p>\n

      And PROJECTS<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Nora and Dan to work on web-based communications platform. (Peggy to be available to advise.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Convener: Jim Shaffer Note taker: Jim Shaffer Initial attendees: Ralph Gage, Bill Krasean, Nora Paul, Chris Peck, Steve Silha, Dueane Stoltzfus, What future action? Ralph: Here\u2019s a wild ass idea: I know ________, Chris\u2019s brother, who\u2019s a hardworking journalist at … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-session-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/kalamazoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/kalamazoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/kalamazoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/kalamazoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/kalamazoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/kalamazoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/kalamazoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/kalamazoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/kalamazoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/kalamazoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}