This is a page where Collaboratorium moderators can discuss issues of mutual interest.

Prior outreach activities

Oct 31-Nov 3
Pass out cards at Energy Club event on Oct 28 + development team/moderators each ask 5 friends to look at the site.

Email message along these lines:
What do you think we should do about global climate change?

Vote for the plan you think is best, or create a better one yourself, at the Climate Collaboratorium http://cognosis.mit.edu.

The site is running a contest for the best Copenhagen plan. Preliminary round winners will be chosen November 15, final round winners November 30.

You can also
* Add comments to the plans
* Add comments to the debates

Results of outreach efforts
Outreach activities
40+ personal invitations issues via email
~85 people contacted at events, ~10 took Collaboratorium business cards

Site results
18 new users (up from 47 between 10/31/09 and 11/3/09 mid-afternoon)
9 new votes (up from 14 over same period)

Pending pre-Copenhagen outreach

Nov 9-15

  • Follow up with 2 personal invitees (1 who used site and one who did not) to get more information (questions below)
  • Enter results create Google docs sheet to gather results?)
  • Plan event with MIT Energy Club on Nov 19

Specific questions for invitees to include:

  • Why are you interested in climate issues?
  • If you didn't visit the site, why?
  • If you did visit, what did you do?
    Look? Register? Vote? Add comments?
  • What did you like? What could be improved?
  • What was easy to understand? What was less easy to understand?
  • What do you think should be changed?
  • How do you think we could find other people who would be interested in participating in this community?
  • What other advice do you have?

Nov 16-22
Emails to student groups:

  • Sustainability@MIT newsletter
  • Harvard (John Gensler, others?)
  • Tufts (Rhonda Jordan has a friend)
  • UNaples
  • Bronx Science/Stuyvestant HS (NYC)
  • Northfield Mount Herman
    Messages to small/medium-sized sustainability email lists/list serves (see below)

Transition to new Liferay platform, with more robust community functionality, scheduled for Nov 16
Issue: How to get current users onto Liferay system? Automatic registration? Email notification? other?

Nov 23-30
Emails and possible events with

  • Camb Climate Protection Action Committee,
  • Museum Science Copenhagen event attendees
  • Climate Project NE chapter
    Messages to large sustainability email lists/list serves + other groups identied between now and then (see below)

Nov 30-Dec 6
Prepare white paper, based on Collaboratorium activity, to be taken to delegations at Copenhagen

Climate list serves for November outreach

  • Antarctica trip (LP)
  • Mass Climate Action Network, which has Nov 15 conference (JJ)
  • Cambridge Energy Alliance blog (JJ)
  • HUCE calendar
  • Berkeley EE&C list serve
  • Fostering Sustainable Behavior list serve
  • Sustainability U.S. list serve
  • Powershift Mass
  • Powershift U.S.
  • Collegiate Energy Association
  • EESE (Carol Dumaine's DOE group)

Other outreach ideas proposed by moderators

Focus of pre-Copenhagen activity

Two tier contest for Copenhagen plans

  • Preliminary round
    Top 3 vote getting plans on Nov 15 are named preliminary round winners
  • Final round
    Semifinal winners are touted as such but all votes are reset, with top 3 vote getters Nov 16-30 named final round winners
    Creators of semifinal and final round winners receive notice on home page and their profile

Moderator site maintenance schedule

Task = welcome new users + remove bad posts

  • Week of Nov 2 = Rob
  • Week of Nov 9 = Kat
  • Week of Nov 16 = Rhonda
  • Week of Nov 23 = Joana/Jason?
  • week of Nov 30 = Lara

Activities during and after Copenhagen*

  • December
    Discussion of Collaboratorium white paper + events in Copenhagen + reflect on next steps
  • Q1 2010
    Focus on new set of plans around Waxman-Markey/Boxer-Kerry or other issue to be determined


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