Meeting Notes, 2007-01-07

Look at:
*"Our Story" website
*Paul J. Lamb's page on Squidoo
	
Possible publication names:
*Good Lives
**Name can provoke discussion re: subjectivity of "good"
**Could be just about people
*Civic Roots
**Could be about the orgs and issues (and maybe people)
**Could pull stories from Good Lives
		
*More likely:
**Civic Roots is to the NYT as Good Lives is to the NYT Book Review
		
Strategic Plan
*Focus on the first year of our organization
		
Mission Statement
*Social Focus, Inc. increases civic participation and brings mainstream recognition to nonprofits, their people (staff? Workers?), and their communities.
*New Idea, try to integrate: Social Focus, Inc. develops and implements socially focused, internet-based technologies, platforms, etc. to effect positive social change in the communities it serves.
Goals and Objectives
*Develop a web-based, open-source, collaborative magazine platform
**Include social networking in the description
*Design the platform (what we want from it, what we want it to do) within the first month of hiring our lead developer
*Develop the online magazine, potentially called Civic Roots
**Structure
**Content
*Implement the platform as the online magazine
**Maybe have specific geographic focus e.g., Silicon Valley Edition or Bay Area Edition
*Research to see what focus funders would want from our project
*Get people to use the magazine/social-networking site
*Use the platform to connect people who work in nonprofits by encouraging them to write about other people who are contributing to their communities
*Give students and other volunteers and opportunity to develop their skills in communications, journalism, and new, web-based tools (podcasting, videocasting, etc.)
**See: RoseTimes (used for internet-based video interviews)
			
Action Plan
*Get full draft of strategic plan (both)
*Apply to incubator program (Matt)
*Recruit people for programming our platform (both of us will do this)
Plan for meeting next Sunday at 10AM--location not decided.