May 3, 2010: Online Work Bee

From SolSeed

Only Ben and Brandon made it to this one.

Contents 1 Agenda 2 WWWs from last time 3 Music for the video 4 Earth Day followup 5 Book club and finding Octavia Butler fans 6 Personal Outreach 7 WWWs

Agenda

• Review WWWs
• Triads
• Disney/music for the video
• Earth Day Redux
• Book club etc
• Personal Outreach

WWWs from last time

Were all related to putting together the Earth Day booth

Music for the video

• We have two Disney contacts who have to go through separate clearance processes
• If we can't get clearance?
  • Commission and/or write our own song?
    • SolSeedThemeSong
    • Maybe contact the band Sol Seed?
    • Have a choral part and ask iSing to perform it?
  • Find something else that fits

Earth Day followup

• Brandon sent personalized welcome messages to everyone who signed up at Earth Day (14 total)
  • Tried to talk about something we knew they were interested in
  • 3 replies so far
    • 2 people from Windward, Walt and Andrew
    • Matthew - into composting http://www.cloacina.org/
• We could invite the most enthusiastic people to the business calls
• Brandon will see about inviting some people in Portland to have lunch or breakfast 1-on-1

Book club and finding Octavia Butler fans

• Web-based?
  • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/octavia-butler-earthseed/
  • Facebook (can you email directly to it like a newsgroup?)
  • Get the http://earthseed.org domain?
• Existing Parables book clubs have not worked all that well
• We could post digests from regularly-scheduled calls to a group, and respond to posted messages during the calls

Personal Outreach

• Start with thinking of one person each to send email to
• Email format
  • Personalize and establish relatedness by showing understanding of their interests
  • Introduce who we are, ask whether they have any advice for us, or know someone else we should contact
  • Thank them for taking the time to read our email and for any help they might give us

WWWs

• Brandon ... Send Ben data from Earth Day signup sheet ... by tomorrow
• Brandon ... Pay for the tents ... by tomorrow
• Brandon ... Ping KatieV ... by tomorrow
• Brandon ... Reply to Mike J. ... by tomorrow
• Brandon ... send links to online Octavia Butler and Parables specific communities ... by tomorrow
• Brandon ... email Lion ... by tomorrow
• Brandon ... Reply to Andre ... by next call
• Brandon ... write to David Livingston as personal outreach ... by next call
• Shelley ... send out 3rd round of triads email ... by next call
• Ben ... put together new email lists ... by Wednesday
• Ben ... pick online newsgroup for book discussion group (email to and fro, with announcements for calls) ... by next call
• Ben ... send email about newsgroup, first call (May 16 or May 23rd at 7:30pm), and picking up free copy of book from Brandon, or getting it mailed to them ... by next call