[StrategyPlan] Strategy Plan Announcement

Thu Jan 6 09:33:51 PST 2011

Great! Thank you.
 Kendra Gonzales 

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From: Jim Stauffer <jims at greens.org>
To: strategyplan at cagreens.org
Sent: Wed, January 5, 2011 6:03:52 PM
Subject: Re: [StrategyPlan] CC on Strategy Plan Announcement

I can make the change to the last draft regarding the strategyplan list as the 
alternate send-to address and get the message out tomorrow. Messages sent on 
weekends have a higher rate of being missed.

To clarify, the issue wasn't about prohibiting people from subscribing to the 
strategy list, it was about having all responses on the wiki.

Jim

On 1/5/2011 2:43 PM, Kendra Gonzales wrote:
> I will stand aside re my concern about not allowing other Greens to subscribe
> to the Strategy Listserve, and agree to keep the wording in the email to "Post
> your feedback to.....".
>
> I understand the importance of suggesting that County Councils start
> organizing strategy sessions on a regional basis. I absolutely agree. As
> stated previously, the reason that is not in THIS initial email, is to not
> overload the email and the reader with too much info all at once. This is an
> /initial/ email, just to get the conversation started....it is certainly not
> an end product, just one of many emails that will have to go out to continue
> engaging local Greens in the very large and on-going process of what we are
> trying to accomplish.
>
> We can easily send another "reminder" email in a couple weeks for those who
> have not responded and add our suggestion of regional meetings. Follow-up
> phone calls are also very important, and thanks to Barry and Adrienne for
> taking that on!.
>
> To answer Barry's concern about spelling out "why" this is a good
> project....I'm sorry, but if any Green reading the email cannot figure out the
> importance of stategizing for the future of our Party then they would most
> likely not be interested in it anyway!.
>
> The first 2 or 3 sentences of the email are meant to engage and excite the
> reader, what else could possibly be said?. We could spend another week
> creating the perfect opening tag line, but we need to gety started already!
>
> Unless I hear any more outstanding concerns, I will plan on sending the final
> draft to Jim to send out to County Contacts by friday am.
>
> Thanks all!
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Jim Stauffer <jims at greens.org>
> *To:* GPCA Strategy Planning <strategyplan at cagreens.org>
> *Sent:* Tue, January 4, 2011 5:00:41 PM
> *Subject:* [StrategyPlan] CC on Strategy Plan Announcement
>
> The CC reviewed the proposed announcement last night. It's ready to go as soon
> as Kendra and I work out wording about how this list will be used as the
> alternate posting spot.
>
> There were some concerns, listed below. Our final conclusion was to address
> the concerns in a follow-up message in one week.
>
> Barry Hermanson was concerned that the message states that this is important,
> but didn't describe why. He's going to pen a few lines for the follow-up.
>
> I raised the concern about not promoting the idea of counties gathering into
> small groups for their discussions. A few others agreed. That will also be
> added to the follow-up.
>
> We discussed the need for sending periodic reminders to the counties. Barry
> and Adrienne volunteered to make calls. We should also send email reminders.
>
> The section from the meeting minutes is copied below.
>
>
> Jim
>
> =====================================================================
>
> Attending: Michael Borenstein, Barry Hermanson, Matt Leslie, Adrienne Prince,
> David Quinley, Michael Rubin, Jim Stauffer.
>
>
> 3 - Finalize draft and authorize distribution of the 'Strategy Notice' to the
> County Contacts list. [10 min]
>
> JS: Reads text of Kendra Gonzales’ Strategy Notice and intent of Wiki
> discussion. She wants this distributed to the lists.
>
> BH: I like it. The only thing that’s missing, is some statement at the
> beginning as to why people should get involved. Why is this an exciting
> project? I personally believe this is an extraordinary time for the Greens.
> I’d add 3 – 4 sentences at the beginning. She has put together a good basic
> document.
>
> AP: I would pass that input on to her.
>
> JS: She and I are still having a technical discussion regarding the wiki vs.
> the email list. Something that disappeared in the evolution of this document
> is mention of getting counties together with their neighbors. We will get
> better discussions if we can get more participants. I don’t know how anyone
> else feels about these group meetings, but I think they’d be beneficial.
>
> BH: The internal aspects of why it’s important to have good planning…I feel
> should be mentioned.
>
> MB: This notice is about as long as a County Contacts notice. These amendments
> can be inserted very briefly.
>
> BH: I’d like to be a traveling liaison, helping the Counties/Regions conduct
> their discussions.
>
> MR: I agree with Jim. I’d be sad to see the ideas of special event gatherings
> disappear from this. We should at least try and involve
> not-the-usual-activists in our counties.
>
> MB: I think that could be put back in…
>
> JS: I wonder if we should send this one as-is, and then one week later, a
> message about how to connect with the locals. It would be nice to give some
> guidance about how to conduct a live meeting on this topic.
>
> DQ: Could there be a connection to any of the data collecting that Marnie is
> doing? Could she be gathering some feedback while doing her calling?
>
> MB: We are trying to get individual and group suggestions for strategy for
> short and long-term planning, to be created and consensed upon at the next two
> plenaries. What do we want for a timeline? It would be good to send this out 
>asap.
>
> BH: So we need to finish this tonight!
>
> DQ: How is this different than anything we’ve tried to do in the past?
>
> JS: We have never actually gone out to the counties for strategic input.or
> long-term goal setting. This is an experiment, a major departure. It would be
> nice to see if there are some common themes out there.
>
> BH: Jim, are you going to send this out to the county contacts? Send out
> several messages, with updates, and how-to’s. Maybe a couple of follow-up
> messages in the next few weeks. I would make an offer that if counties or
> regions want to include this on an agenda, I will attend the meeting just to
> listen.
>
> AP: So are we consensing that we send this to the county contacts list as-is,
> with followup messages over the next few weeks?
>
> BH: We would then need to decide then the text of future messages.
>
> MB: Passes by consensus.
>
> AP: Is there a phone list we can use to follow up with? I’d like to make some
> phone calls.
>
> JS: Yes, we do have some phone numbers and emails. Its on the IT webside
> behind the common password. Ca Green website/IT. Link called “county 
contacts.”
>
> BH: I’ll make phone calls.
>
> AP: I’ll do South, you can do North.
>
> MB: And if they get 2 phone calls, all the better!
>
> JS: Everything will go to the County Contacts list, the Co-Co’s list and the
> GPCA list.
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