Discussion about Community Ed Presenters Values, Alliance Political Affiliations, and Holding the Tension

This discussion took place via several emails which initiated with the Community Ed committee but quickly became relevant for the whole Board. Also, there were a few different threads. I've combined them here to the best of my ability and am posting

Community Ed Programs Committee - Next Steps

Hi James, Patricia, Jess, Craig, Donna, and MIchael,

I wanted to to check in with you regarding the Community Ed committee and brainstorm how we should best move forward on the Community Education initiative. James, Patricia, and Jesse: you were on

Poll Question and Depth Discussion Quote & Question -- Needed for this week and moving forward

Poll Question and Depth Discussion Quote & Question: 

We just started doing these 3 weeks ago at the instigation of the Visitor Frequency & Content committee. They seem to be very well received, each generating a surge of visits and discussion as the

Orientation and Participation for New Board Members - Please read

Committee - Visitor Frequency and Quality of Content and Experience

Visitor Frequency Committee Launch

On June 27, 2013, Bonnie, Mark, and Jesse met by Skype to discuss how to increase visitor frequency and ensure or increase the quality of the experience on the Alliance. It turns out this is a broad topic because it

Mission Statement - Please comment and/or vote to approve

Hi everyone, 

After much contemplation and review of all the work we have done on the Mission statement so far and based on recent one-on-one conversations or exchanges with some of you, I've finally managed to put together a potential statement that

Committee Outreach & Cross-Pollination

Notes on the Launch Meeting for the Outreach/Cross-pollination committee

Date: July 2, 2013

Committee members in attendance: Brent, Bonnie, Mark; Unable to attend: Esther

Summary:

The committee for Outreach/Cross-pollination met Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Committee--Community Ed

Community Ed Committee

Meeting Date: 6/25/13

Attendees: James, Patricia, Bonnie, Brent, Jesse

We recapped how this initiative might work:

The Board puts out a call to interested participants who want to offer a teleseminar, webinar, video presentat

Committee--Conferences and Publishing

Committee Report: 

Conferences & Publications Committee

Meeting Date: 6/25/13

Attendees: James, Patricia, Bonnie, Brent

On the topic of publications, we discussed:

• · Producing a periodic academic journal
• · Establishing an Editorial Board, hopefull

Current Welcome Message as of June 11, 2013

I believe I emailed this same one out a week or two ago, but just so it's available here for easy access:

Hello, (Rick), and welcome to the online depth psychology community. It's great to have you here. 

As you may know, we currently have nearly 25

Recording of Board Meeting Call for June 9, 2013

Here's the link to listen to the call: http://ds1.downloadtech.net/cn1086/audio/15017383991946-001.mp3

Unfortunately I couldn't get the recording to start until I managed to troubleshoot it a few minutes in so we didn't catch updates from Jesse and

Potential Committees

Committees

The idea here is that we populate committees with however many Board Members wish to be involved. (I'm also open to including Alliance members who would be interested in participating but don't wish to serve on the Board formally--but we c

Ideas Around Generating Income

Generating income:

To give you an idea, voluntary donations vary, but are usually fairly consistent if looked at over the course of a year. The Alliance netted just over $100 in May. My hard costs for the hosting platform, the newsletter/database fun

Pros and Cons of Opening the Alliance (Make it Wholly Viewable) to the General Public

Please add your thoughts, questions and ideas!

PROS: Opening the Alliance to the public would:

• · Allow everyone to access and read all pages in the site without having to become members. Therefore content would be proliferated at a rate many thousa

Agenda for Board Meeting #2 -- February 24, 2013

Current New Member Profile Questions as of 2/24/13

Hi everyone, 

At some point soon we will want to discuss and modify these questions posed to new potential members wanting to sign up.

Four of the ten--#1 (Name), 2 (Areas of Interest), #7 (How did you hear about the Alliance), and #8 (What drew you

Current "WELCOME TEXT" as of May 29, 2013

Hello (Lauren) Welcome to the online depth psychology community. It's great to have you here. 

As you may know, we currently have nearly 2500 members from all over the world. I hope as you explore the community a bit you find a dynamic group of like

Access Information for Board Meeting #2, February 24 at 11am Pacific Time

Community Education: Initiative for Board Discussion

Hi everyone,

I've been thinking for some time about how to get ever more participation from community members--we have so many passive onlookers. I get it: I'm often a passive onlooker in other such communities. But if this is a community, how can we

Working Discussion - Mission Statement

Hi all,

I've spent some time reviewing all the resources provided by James, Ed, and Esther as well as everyone else's insightful comments. I'm anxious to move on this so we can follow up with the other critical decisions that are dependent on it.

In