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Open NC Newsletter #3

Open jhibbets opened 6 years ago

jhibbets commented 6 years ago

This is for Jill

Jillzey commented 6 years ago

Mailchimp account has been opened. The first newsletter will be ready for review next week.

ejaxon commented 6 years ago

I am all for having a newsletter, but I think we need to get clear what we're doing with it. I don't think we've had any discussion. Note that Laura posted a comment re: newsletter in the #leadership Slack channel last Friday - other than my thumbs up, I don't think there was any response.

jhibbets commented 6 years ago

@ejaxon to update this issue with some primer questions and invite other folks to comment - who is our audience? what is the purpose?

ChrisTheDBA commented 6 years ago

Just wanted to give a shoutout. I was at an event with State CIO and other gov CIOS. When the question came up about public/private partnerships and CFA brigades and the consensus was Asheville was the most active brigade because of the newsletter. There were lots of triangle people as well as G'boro and Mecklenburg Gov IT executives.

Shows the impact and impression that a newsletter can give.

ejaxon commented 6 years ago

That's fascinating. It raises the point that we should be cognizant both of our direct audience and goals and the possibility of additional impact (positive or negative) that happens indirectly. One potential goal is simply to raise the state and national profile of all the NC brigades, individually and as a web of civic innovation.

ChrisTheDBA commented 6 years ago

The ones from GSO I remember were from UNC-G and another school.

ejaxon commented 6 years ago

I think there are 2 main questions.

  1. Who is the audience? Some options: NC brigade members, NC brigade leadership, NC civic community (including government & press), Code for America HQ, Code for America brigade leadership, potential civic tech volunteers outside regular brigades.
  2. What is the primary purpose of publishing the newsletter? Some options: keep NC brigade members informed of what's happening, build a sense of community, build credibility for NC brigades with the wider civic community.

In answering these, It is important to think about where we want to be in a year or two, not necessarily about what current need we are satisfying. My personal feeling is that, from the standpoint of current needs, a newsletter is more work than it's worth, but from the standpoint of the future of NC civic tech, it might be of great value.

Would be interested to hear thoughts from anyone, but especially ask @Jillzey, @jhibbets, @ChrisTheDBA, @LauraMB12, @SagarMishra to comment.