Guide meeting minutes

[Wayne Moses Burke]

Here's the update from the latest meeting to establish an online guide to use of social media by Congressional offices.

Next Meeting
3 weeks - Monday, October 26, 6pm

Attendees
Alex Howard
Josh Shpayer
Carmela Aquino
Sara Mueller
Jennifer Berk
Lucas Cioffi
Kate Filbert
Christiana Aretta
Wayne Moses Burke

Accomplishments

• MediaWiki installation is up at http://congresscamp.org/w
  

Decisions and Commitments

• A Name - the Compass will live at CongressCamp.org/compass
• We now have 5 sections that we're pulling together for the site. The goal is to have an example of each by the next meeting so that we can begin to understand how it might all fit together and so that the design team can work some magic
  
• What's New?
• This section is envisioned to have Digg like functionality where people can add new things going on/products and others can vote it up or down.
• This may be pulled in from another site also.
  
• Case Studies
• Carmela is going to reach out to Sean Hackbarth to see if we can use Senate Doctors for our initial case study
• Big Grid - a list of all offices and what tools they are using
• Alex and Josh are going to start gathering resources and figuring out how to bring together content that is currently dispersed across the web
• Beginner's section - Introductory guides
• Jennifer is going to create a basic, this-is-what-you-need to know guide
• Questions/Answers - from staff to the community
  
• Wayne is going to use the following question to start getting some response from the community:
• What social media widgets are available for use on a Representative's webpage, eg Facebook, Twitter, etc.?
  
• Sara is going to come up with more questions from staffers
  
• General Guidelines:
• We should be using/linking to the best content out there and not trying to re-create it, except where necessary
• We should make it as easy as possible for anyone to engage with the Compass and add information, so that we can tap the broader web community
  

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Wayne Moses Burke
Executive Director
Open Forum Foundation
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