Agenda

Review Recent Activities:

Participants

Scribe: Butch Lazorchak

Attendees: Vickie Allen, Barbara Teague, Carol Minton Morris, Butch Lazorchak, Deborah Rossum, Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Sue Manus, Kim Schroeder

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 Digital Humanities Now tool.
Draw up a description of the imagined workflow.

Build a database of member expertise to be hosted someplace
Start NDSA group on LinkIn and strongly encourage members to join. Point press contacts to group list for information on expertise. For example, there is already a LinkedIn NDSA: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?viewMembers=&gid=4158855&sik=1358194261519 "Digital Curation" group. Kim Schroeder took an action to set up the NDSA group.

What information do we want to capture about each contact?
publication
First Name
Last Name
Address
Phone Number
email
twitter
facebook
interactions with NDSA
Links to articles
Areas of interest (Should we build a taxonomy? Or borrow one from somewhere?)
- General interest
- State Government
- Cloud Computing