Hive/Lemelson Meeting Agenda (10/11)
Last meeting, recap:
Developing a Project Plan
Major topics included:
a) Service agreement – discuss, who’s on their side, what we can do on our side, etc.
b) Member data – export member data (CSV)
c) User feedback channels – set up a way to get feedback
d) Site refresh – review, create, talk to Mike and set up site and URL (in dev right now)
e) Content types – webinars (?), posts, projects, case studies, podcasts, slides
This meeting, agenda:
Primary aims:
a) Crystallize content strategy at a high level
- Establish a content calendar
- Think through a sample video object
- Editing services, research adobe connect
b) Get into more detail about our tags and categories for the team-project spaces
- Review template and modify fields
- We arrive with suggestions; we finalize fields; Ning/Mike implements (see Ning’s designs and Dev site)
- Tags: Topics, Age Group, Setting
- Articulate difference between Case Studies and Projects
Moving forward:
Notes from today’s meeting:
- Quick summary of where we are
- Not as big into selling as into developing a community of invention educators (meta-goal); take teachers further down the journey with kids and invention; LemelsonX a place where people can share their own resources and materials
- Should be LemelsonMIT logo, not JV
- Tailor the “Member” area – how many states rather than countries, etc. but also countries...
- Who manages the recent activity feed – their Content Manager - define tasks for that role
2. Tags/Categories
- What are themes that are popping up? Hands-On, Minds-On; JVInvenTeams – think about all the things a team would want to filter by; how we want to organize by fields/topics
- Let’s get out there all the possible ways to slice and dice the content and then once that’s out there to start discovering patterns – how will users categorize the content
3. Issues with minors...
- Approval for posts? Keep it open.
- Person publishing image has that control… There are laws against collecting email addresses, personally identifiable information, etc. – easiest way is probably to just not have any minors be able to become members
- Reminder in new content creation: make sure that you use any psydonymns for people's names you don’t have permission to use; make sure you have permission for images; remind them of the laws; include them in the terms and conditions
- A Designed Community of Invention Educators – by teachers, for teachers
- *Ask Office of Legal Counsel to include a clause for terms and conditions for adult educators working k-12 for any content related to minors = action item
- *Another way: you need to be able to become a member in order to get access to other parts of the site other than the home page
4. General strategy/overview
- The Learn Section – Elaine Mello…. Building 9 - great for webinars
- The Connect Section – where teachers find other teachers, ways to set up member profile where teachers can set up what kits they’ve done, age groups they’ve worked with, etc.
- How do we want to cateogirze content = action item
- Act Section: Where we store the projects – figuring out what fields you want to have displayed here is an important piece = action item – “Share” rather than "Act" – Topics – Camps, Competitions, Funding, Engaging Your Community, Lesson Plans; specific projects based on themes…
- Have another filter based on Setting, Age Group… add as many of those subcategories as you want to
- Have teachers create a project for each sort of topic
- “Please make sure you have permissions when you go to upload an image”
What is it the Hive hopes to get out of it?
- Wants to understand what you and your users want the platform to do; kind of running a small experiment here, by understanding what’s missing, what we’d like to do more of, how we want to keep building the site
- Receive the image
Action Items:
Lemelson:
1. Think about all the different kinds of ways to "slice and dice" content - i.e., all the different kinds of tags/categories that will help organize content for both Learn Page (kits? themes? JV InvenTeam w/ subcategories) and Share Page (Age group, Setting, theme, topic, etc.).
Goal for next meeting: Lemelson comes with their tags and categories, Hive comes with suggestions, we finalize fields --> send to Ning and Mike for design and development
2. Articulate "who's who" on their side (i.e., content manager, etc.)
3. Collaborate with Hive on content strategy
Hive:
1. Include clause in Terms and Conditions that addresses the various issues involving minors being featured on the site
2. Write Service Agreement (see Lemelson Project Plan for more details) - what we can offer
3. Also be thinking about best ways to organize content...come with suggestions
4. Establish a content calendar/startegy once we have a better sense of how content will be organized and what sorts of content objects will be populated first