Megan Griffith's comments

I think that before I send this to VCOs the site needs some clear summary pages about aims and potential work packages. I think we pretty much have these? I think the site might seem a bit messy to some newcomers who aren't used to this kind of site - it took me a while to work out the navigation!

Core group meeting, great idea, shall we think about dates?

The research list is already on google docs so is it just a case of putting a link to it from the summary page?

I think we need to go back to using basecamp...

Right, I'm off on leave now, back on the 31st!

Megan

Hi david

Argh - I wish I could dive into this properly but I'm on leave next week and struggling with year-end stuff at the moment. It's frustrating, but until I get my team on board (end of May) its going to be hard to spend a lot of time on this, but I'll do what I can. When are we opening up this site? The first thing I can do is put a call out on 3s4.org.uk. In the first week of April I can get some help in to scour our contact lists for membership organisations and send them individual invitations to join us here, and I can probably also get a list of the people booked on so far for our session on the 22nd and contact them too. How does that sound? A get-together might be trickier to organise, but shouldn't be beyond us.

On the research side, we have that excel sheet I did of literature (and therefore interesting people who did the research!) Is there somewhere on this site I could start to put that?

Megan

Very useful summary, thanks David. I like the combination of the research and the practical stuff. In Foresight we think about What? So what? Now what? We need the research (what? so what?) to then help people respond (now what?) Equally we need the practical stuff to bring the research to life and make it useful to people.

Who is it for? For me, the primary audience is people involved in membership organisations (what's our definition - what's in and out? - we still need to pin this down). We want to target the people playing a 'strategic' role in these organisations, which doesn't necessarily just mean chief officer - it includes anyone interested in achieving more, developing new ideas and services, moving the organisation forward.

A secondary audience is probably policy makers. Who else?

I really like this. What's the difference between a customer and a consumer?

Thanks David. I wonder if we can think of a quirky image to represent membership?