September #4change Chat – Developing a core community of network weavers & builders
Date: Thurs September 9th
Time: 2 pm PST, 5 pm EST, 10 pm UK, 11pm W. Europe for 2 hours
Location: #4change on Twitter
Topic: Developing a core community of #4change network weavers & builders
The background to this week’s topic
During the slow month of August 2010, the #4change chat team announced that we’d been thinking about a transition which moves us away from branding #4change as a specific monthly twitter-based chat, toward a branding of #4change as a model that represents what a loose but structured network of people are doing with social media tools to advance social change. We invited you to a #4change chat on Twitter to brainstorm with us on Co-creating a Network of #4change chat events.
A small group came out for an initial exchange of positive ideas, and then the core #4change old guard connected once more to hash through where we are at and where we would love to see the #4change network concept go. That we were not able to capture the August #4change chat until after it had slipped into the lifeless land of “older tweets are temporarily unavailable,” strongly validates the one of the main conclusions that the core #4change team arrived to in our last call.
Concluded: Whatever we do with #4change from this point forward will require core community engagement in the planning.
In the lead up to this week’s #4change chat, I am reaching out with intent to folks who have expressed an interest in the future of the #4change network. Please review the latest #change crew thinking on “a plan” below.
I hope to see you on Twitter at the usual time on Thursday, 9 September (2 pm PST, 5 pm EST, 10 pm UK, 11pm W. Europe for 2 hours) for a chat with the #4change hashtag to further build on these ideas. Please post your suggestions for 140 character questions to guide Thursday’s chat in the Comments section.
4 Change Futurist Chat / Strategy
- Q1: What are the thoughts of the HOW & WHY of developing a #4change network?
- Q2: What has the greatest value of the #4change chats been for you to date?
- Q3: What do you think will happen to the #4change hashtag if it is used for multiple chats? Is it practical to use 2?
- Q4: Which other chats come to mind that might fit well within a #4change umbrella network? and are you involved with any of them?
- Q5: Is there an area of YOUR work online that u feel passionate enough about to regularly host a chat about?
- Q6: What thoughts come to mind re harvesting content from many microblogging chats to make it practically searchable and accessible?
- Q7: How do you think we should approach financing the costs involved in administering a #4change chat event network?
- Q8: What take-away thoughts do you have about the evolution of #4change at this point?
4 Change Network Strategy
Vision (Focus on Tech as Change Catalyst?)
A microblog chat network. An aggregator of microblog chat from, of, around and relating to 4change, change chats, change, changemakers and people for change. Does it have to be related to positive social change and technology, or just social change?
Concluded: Public virtual events about social change at a specific time, all listed in a specific virtual space
- How would a chat qualify to become part of the network?
- How would they fit?
- How would we vet / what is the vetting process?
- What about the chat that aligns to 4change?
- Does it need to be about technology and social change?
- Engagement metrics / interest?
- Alignment statement?
- Consensus? Add ur thoughts.
- What is the value proposition?
Infrastructure
1. Do nothing > Keep 4change as a subdomain of memeshift.com
Pros) We use what we have.
Cons) Not really room to grow. Identified that we want to do more…
2. Integrate with http://www.internet4change.com which is running on WordPress running Headway Theme.
Pros) Leverage a site that already exists and has part of the 4change brand / identity in the name.
Cons) The site would need to be restructured in order to accommodate many chats, already has a defined structure taxonomy, look and feel. From a development standpoint it can take more time to revamp / restructure / redesign a site then to write a clear vision a build from scratch. All content has to be migrated from current #4change and integrated with #internet4change
concluded: internet4change faces too many resource constraints, go for option 3
3. Develop a new microblog chat network / aggregation site that does exactly what it needs to do under an expanded #4change brand > the #4changenetwork @ http://www.4changenetwork.com (which zero strategist has currently reserved)
Pros) Build it to do exactly what it needs to do, function how it needs to function. Scalability. It’s own independent umbrella from our own professional identities, but pulls everyone together the way we all want. It’s own identity / brand. Growth. Cool. Opportunity to used advances in WP 3.0 to do more advanced stuff then what most are doing right now. Also, worth mentioning that Drupal could be an option depending on functionality we want, scale, if we want it to be more of a social network or just straight aggregation.
Cons) Development time / cost / hosting / domain. Logo / branding / identity might have to be refreshed or redesigned. Themes / templates. Time and timing. Management technical support of the platform. Advanced or more complicated platforms mean more advanced an complications and technical bugs. At this point we might need to do a kick starter or micro funding campaign in order to sponsor the creation of the platform.
Platforms
- WordPress
- Drupal
- Joomla
- Other suggestions?
For the microblog chats:
- Identica
- Yammer / yammer communities
- Cover it live
- Skype
Other suggestions?
What does everyone already know how to use? What does everyone want to use? Platform agnostic and leaders decide which platform?
Concluded: We are talking about tools for virtual events! Shouldn’t limit ourselves, be able to evolve with technology.
#4change Events?
- 4 Change Summit
- 4 Change Micro Summits?
- 4 Change Network Meet ups / Regional / City / On Demand?
- 4 Change Virtual Events / Conferences
Where? When? How are we going to fund flights or get everyone there? Volunteers? Co-create some of the stuff with others?
Funding Sources?
Microdonations | Partnerships | Sponsors | Kickstarter | Paypal
- what money / people do we need to raise?
- How would money be managed?
- Besides the platform what else to we need to spend on?
Concluded: Volunteer & Funded = A hybrid model could work.
Community Involvement in Design of the umbrella.
map out work needed for content migration + taxonomy
Timeframe/s
- When do we want to launch it?
- How do we stagger the chats?
At least 1 chat per month on the network, OK at 2 per month, better at a 4 per month or at least one per week!Maximums (most amount of chats on the network)
At least 4 days apart (2 per week)? Limits us to maxing out at 91 chats
- At least 7 days apart (1 per week)? Limits us to maxing out at 52 chats
- What other concurrent events or times do we want to avoid?
- What other concurrent events or times do we want to piggyback onto?
- How would we handle search?
- How do we handle licensing differences? Creative commons?
What do we have now?
- @AmyRSWard has already started another chat with the #4change network label on it. Be sure to check out what she’s doing with the new #4change Community Builder Chat.
- I have stepped forward @ChristinasWorld to coordinate at least the early stages of an open collaboration process for opening up and continuing the development of a #4change network. In the first instance, my hope is that process will engage new and old #4change “careholders” in developing a financially realistic 4changenetwork model, that creates an effective resource for finding the invaluable grassroots wisdom that exists at the crossroads of social media and social change.
- @zerostrategist has said he will also contribute to an open process for thinking through a workable social enterprise plan for #4change. One option we agree could be viable within the limits of what we are both able to commit to, would combine paid and volunteer commitments in a strategy to achieve benchmark levels of financial sustainability over time. Long story short, we’d love for the others who want to throw their talents into developing a 4changenetwork plan, to also help us assess what resources it needs and think through where those resources could be available, for how long and at what cost.
- @zenpeacekeeper @charityestrella @realizeink @hildygottlieb + others expressed interest in further exploration.
Please join us, Thursday 9 August to get involved in shaping and fleshing this exciting plan out further together. See you then! Please post your suggestions for 140 character questions to help guide our discussion in the comments section below
Details:
Date: Thurs August 9th
Time: 2 pm PST, 5 pm EST, 10 pm UK, 11pm W. Europe for 2 hours
Location: #4change on Twitter
Topic: Developing a core community of #4change network weavers & builders
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