A mission or vision statement

[Michael]

I don't know about you guys, but I've sat through enough faculty
meetings to shudder anytime someone says the phrase "mission
statement." Done poorly, they are monumental wastes of time. However,
Jono Bacon's book
http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/downloads/jonobacon-theartofcommunity-1ed.pdf
strongly recommends them as the first step towards structuring a new
group or organization, and he gives compelling reasons to do so. This
evening, I read a much less detailed blog post about them:
http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2010/11/13/personal-mission-statement/
that also makes a case for such a creature for any organization. In
short, such a mission or vision statement, the poster writes:
* synthesizes who you are
* gives you focus
* ease the decision-making process
* and holds you accountable
Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[Urszula]

Maybe something along the lines of:

"We help create intuitive and esthetically appeasing school websites.
We aim to create universal, yet easily configurable solutions, suited
to particular school needs."

"We help teachers, parents and students to experience the best web
solutions currently available, while taking into account their
particular needs."

Since English isn't my native language I'm sure they can be formulated
better (and of course expanded, since they don't cover everything),
but maybe they can be used as a point of origin.

[Michael]

"We help create intuitive and esthetically appeasing school websites.
We aim to create universal, yet easily configurable solutions, suited
to particular school needs."

"We help teachers, parents and students to experience the best web
solutions currently available, while taking into account their
particular needs."

Excellent start. Everyone, what needs to be added, subtracted, or
modified?

[Robert Moffett]

The words "standards compliant" and "open source" need to be in there

[Michael]

Agreed. Let's put it in:

"We help create standards-compliant, intuitive and esthetically
appeasing school websites, relying on open-source software. We aim to

create universal, yet easily configurable solutions, suited to
particular school needs."

"We help teachers, parents and students to experience the best web
solutions currently available, while taking into account their
particular needs."

Additions? Subtractions? Modifications?

On Nov 13, 10:06 pm, Robert Moffett <robert.moff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The words "standards compliant" and "open source" need to be in there