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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