Map Link - Re: Follow Up Notes - Jan 23 Meeting

[Leslie Bienenfeld]

Thought the html would embed a map in the email. Here is a link to the map. 

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=207237634169782484258.00049a7d14bb8adac46c4&z=13

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Leslie <lbien...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks to everyone who could come out on Sunday, Jan 23 (Clint,
Lauren, Jeremy, Doug, Tibet, & Brandon). If you would like to be
involved further, please shoot me an email. Next steps are first, and
then Minutes below.

Leslie
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Next Steps & Accountable People:

**Still Seeking**

- graphic artist for logo/sticker - possibly wig/sunglass on dead guy,
possibly the wigg party logo - crowdsource this?
- graphic artist to update flow chart
- people who are excited about talking to local merchants to go talk
to local merchants.

**Ready to complete**

1. Name Currency - Deadline Sunday, Jan 30, 5 PM - Clint to post on FB
and crowd source name ideas. Top 5 ideas (with most Likes) will go to
a Doodle Poll ON THURSDAY.
2. Create summary doc and 1 page handout - Leslie with help from
Brandon and others though Google Docs
3. Release merchant list publicly to find Wigglers with existing
connections to these businesses - Leslie to update format, send to
Clint/Morgan for distribution.
4. Figure out sticker requirements & legal - Morgan w support from
Leslie
5. Create FB page - Clint or Morgan
6. Start talking to local businesses we are already friends with -
Lauren talks to PKOK, Doug talks to MOJO
7. Set up Paypal Account for budget & donations as a rotating account
and with a donations link - Jeremy with Clint

**Once we have a name...***

8. Create Twitter Handle - Tibet
9. Purchase domain, Set up on server, Point website to a wiggparty.org
page for starters, maybe use wordpress - Jeremy

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Meeting Minutes:
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1. Possible names for Currency:
-WIGGold
-Wiggle Bucks
-Wiggs
-Wigg Community Currency
-DivisDinero
-Wigg Wompum
-Bicycle Bucks
-WiggleWorth
-Diggs
-Weinero
-Bread
-Divisadollars
-Wigg Pieces
- + more from FB
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2. Map of Local Currency Extent, Key Corridors, and Bernal Comparison
& Geography Notes:

Notes on phases/geography:
- Initial release will occur along the Divisadero and Lower Haight
Business districts, with possible expansion to the Hayes Valley and
Duboce Triangle neighborhoods.
--- Hard to include Duboce Triangle without including the Castro bc of
Market Street.
- More businesses = better because more connections in neighborhood.
Currency to strengthen commerce in the neighborhood and encourage
business - business interactions.
- Ithaca Hours has 90 businesses on board before they had a business
plan; on-board businesses donated money to fund start of program - we
should do this!
- Invite farmers' market sellers to participate
- Possibly table at Farmers' Market one day for promotional purposes

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style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">The Wiggle Local Currency Map</
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3. Possible promotional ideas:

**These ideas can be fun, community building activities. We should do
our best to reach the right people (owners, manager) with our
efforts.**

a. carrot mobs
b. progressive carrot mob "crawl" where a parade of people goes to all
of the stores; evidence of people who want to use local currency
c. precede visits to merchants by sending in "patrons" who ask if the
business accepts the local currency

**Less fun promotional stuff**

d. create single page fact sheet for distribution to merchants
e. update cool bernal flow chart - tailor to our neighborhood, include
volunteering/participating as a way to get money, make more legible
f. Visit Divis, Lower Haight, and possibly Duboce Triangle Merchant
Associations BEFORE going out to individual merchants
g. Daily - window signs, smart phone reader, website, FB, twitter
(bernal has a good twitter site where merchants post about music,
events, freebies, reminders related to the business districts).
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4. Benefits of Local Currency

**General**

Complementary currency does not work to contradict or undermine
national currency; it works in cooperation with government, business,
and normal parts of a capitalist economy.

-Build Social Capital/Community
-Nurture more Sustainable Lifestyles
-Work Cooperatively
-Micro/Small/Medium scale enterprise development
-Encourage localization of trade/relationships
-Support local businesses, reward loyal patrons, reward those making
investments in the neighborhood by donation time, money (value
triangle)
-increasing the velocity of money moving through the neighborhood
increases the wealth of the neighborhood (same $10 spent three times
in the same neighborhood = $30 of wealth).

**Other talking Points for Merchants**

-participating = access to large audience (free advertising) -
document number of followers, size of email list
-encourages customer loyalty
-retains money in corridor
-all people are paying in cash
-money can theoretically be spent among merchants