[StrategyPlan] Final? Draft re Strategizing

[Jim Stauffer]

A couple of corrections:

Our official name is "The Green Party of California" and it should be used in 
all correspondence. The acronym, GPCA, can be used after the first occurrence 
of the full name.

On wiki.cagreens, they do not actually have to create an account to enter 
comments. Verify this with Bert, but I'm pretty sure that's what we discovered 
last time.

The StrategyPlan list is open posting. Greens do not have to subscribe to the 
list to post.


And one suggestion -- include "goals" in the opening line. I've long argued 
that you can't devise a strategy without first setting a goal.

"2011 is the ideal time to set goals for the party and develop strategies to 
implement them."


As a final comment, I'm sorry to see that this exercise will not be used as a 
tool to get Locals to have a combined meeting. I thinks there's a lot of 
benefit to that: neighboring counties get to meet each other; the responses 
are more condensed / less duplication; and I think we'd get a better quality 
of response.


Jim


On 12/27/2010 2:30 PM, Kendra Gonzales wrote:
>  From our Co-Co call last night, we have determined:
> 1) A strategy feedback email needs to go to County Contacts asap.
> 2) The draft is below for review - I will send that out asap with the CCs
> blessing.
>
> 3) The Wiki Pages for posting the feedback from Counties will be added
> shortly. Bert Hauer and I are working together on that.
> 4) Please view: http://wiki.cagreens.org. This is being used for Green
> documents including Marnie Glickman's Green 2012 Propsal, so is a logical
> "place" for longer term Strategy as well.
> 4) The end of February is a good deadline to ask Counties to get their
> feedback to us via Wiki or the Strategy Listserve (as back-up) so we'll have
> enough time to gather the feedback into something presentable at the Spring
> Plenary.
>
> DRAFT EMAIL TO COUNTY CONTACTS:
> Fellow Greens,
> *2011 is the ideal time to do some major strategizing!.*
> Green Party California is very excited about creating the
> _"GPCA Strategic Action Plan for 2011/2012 and Beyond". _
> */Your input is absolutely vital in making this happen!!/*
> *//*
> We have very basic questions to ask Greens in every County:
> What can Green Party California accomplish in 2011/2012?. How?
> What can Green Party California accomplish in the next 5 years? How?
> What can Green Party California accomplish in the next 10 years? How?
> Please forward this email to your local email lists, present this at your next
> meeting,
> or however else you might share this exciting proejct with other Greens.
> We'd like to collect your responses, blend them with things we've been talking
> about and create a *_draft outline_* GPCA Strategic Action Plan for our Spring
> Plenary.
> This document will be continually evolving throughout 2011 and needs to be
> something
> _useful _for all of us as we plan ahead.
> We've made it really easy!. Just go to this link:
> http://wiki.cagreens.org.
> Log-in or create an account. (10 seconds)
> Choose _"GPCA Strategic Action Plan 2011/2012 and Beyond"_
> Type your input directly on to the Page(s) of your choice.
> You are invited to do the same on all the Strategy Topics.
> Please keep your answers short (300 words or less?) be specific, please set
> *_realistic _*goals that are *_action _*based.
> We also have an email listserve as back-up for your responses:
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/strategyplan
> The list is configured for open subscription, you do not need admin approval
> to subscribe.
> The address to send a message to this list is strategyplan at cagreens.org
> <mailto:strategyplan at cagreens.org>.
>
> Wiki is a much better format for gathering lots of data, please give it a try!
> Please post your input on Wiki no later than the *_End of February. _*
> We look forward to hearing from you........
> */Let's get this Party started!!/*
> -GPCA Working Groups and Coordinating Committee
>
>
>
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