NDSA:Outreach Meeting Minutes 01-14-13
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Monday January 14, 2013, 3:00 p.m. EDT
Agenda
Review Recent Activities:
- NDSA Communications Strategy: Components of a press office
- Organizational Outreach/Strategic Partnership Program
Participants
Scribe: Butch Lazorchak
Attendees: Vickie Allen, Barbara Teague, Carol Minton Morris, Butch Lazorchak, Deborah Rossum, Ingrid Hsie-Yee, Sue Manus, Kim Schroeder
Meeting Notes
The “press kit” section of the wiki describes three distinct activities necessary to pull together the press office:
- Content from member organizations in the terms of press releases and other outputs. What are some strategic ways to gather, collate and/or harvest these materials? Can we leverage something like Digital Humanities Now (http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Clearinghouse_of_Digital_Preservation_Information)
- A list of NDSA member expertise. Could this be accomplished via leveraging LinkedIn profiles?
- Database of Press contacts. How to organize this?
Taking each in turn:
How can content be harvested by an NDSA press office in the most frictionless way possible? Possible options to explore:
- Work through the Communications contacts at each NDSA partner organization to get the ndsa-outreach listserv added to distribution lists for press releases/mailings/etc.
- Designate an NDSA Outreach WG member with "area responsibility" for monitoring press actions on the part of NDSA organizations within their area of interest (state government, cloud computing, LIS education, big data, etc.). Members would be responsible for noting and harvesting NDSA member information and preparing it for repurposing.
- How "heavyweight" would agreements need to be to enable NDSA Outreach members to repurpose NDSA member organization press under the NDSA banner?
- Have made contact with Dan Cohen of the Center For History and New Media at George Mason University. They are in beta testing for their took DigitalHumanitiesNow.
List of NDSA member expertise.
Ingrid: LinkedIn is a great way to create environment
public availability of list of contacts?
LinkedIn "Digital Curation" group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?viewMembers=&gid=4158855&sik=1358194261519
Description of imagined workflow.
Different people take different topic areas?
Database of press contacts? How to do it?
Info we want to capture?
- publication
- First Name
- Last Name
- Address
- Phone Number
- interactions with NDSA
- Links to articles
- Areas of interest (taxonomy)
- General interest
- State Government
- Cloud Computing