July 2026 - Cvsg - list.chattanooga.digital

DIY Visioning
by Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. July 31, 2026

July 31, 2026

Just a reminder that we will pilot the updated DIY Visioning Kit at our next regular meeting this Tuesday, noon, at the City’s Small Business Resource Center on ML King Jr Blvd. Get details and RSVP at https://luma.com/azkbyo1j. You can find the initial version of the Kit at https://venturing.chattanooga.digital/t/diy-visioning-kit/33. You have to log in to access it. If you have registered on the platform yet, you can do so via https://venturing.chattanooga.digital/invites/pUjPDGxXxq. More generally, we are focused on applying lessons from Venture to reduce division and fragmentation in our community by working toward a shared vision. There seems to be strong, although diffuse, desire for this but no clear support from our local institutions. A key insight from Venture is that, while such support is helpful, it is not essential. ANYONE can do visioning, easily and at no cost, for any purpose. In modern terms, visioning can be crowdsourced. It simply takes a bit of coordination. The DIY Visioning Kit is a tool for that. Personally, I’d like to have a shared vision for digital technology — what do we want for it in our lives and work — particularly for entrepreneurs and small businesses. The starting point for that is decidedly non-technical — common goals, issues, needs, and opportunities — so I’m more than open to collaborate with anyone on visioning. — Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. Executive Officer and Principal Eduity, LLC www.eduity.net greg(a)eduity.net 706-271-5521

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DIY Visioning Kit
by Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. July 29, 2026

July 29, 2026

An initial version of a DIY Vision Kit is now available online at https://venturing.chattanooga.digital/t/diy-visioning-kit/33?u=drl. There are two PDFs, one that explains the rationale and provides instructions and another that is a worksheet for participants. There is also a spreadsheet for facilitators to capture inputs from participants. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Because this is a work in progress, it is only accessible to registered, logged in users. If you have not yet registered, you can do so via https://venturing.chattanooga.digital/invites/pUjPDGxXxq. Let me know if you have any difficulties with any of the above. — Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. Executive Officer and Principal Eduity, LLC www.eduity.net greg(a)eduity.net 706-271-5521

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Piloting Visioning at next regular meeting, 7/4, noon
by Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. July 22, 2026

July 22, 2026

During our next regular meeting we will pilot our visioning process, based on the VISIONS ’86 Do It Yourself Kit, and discuss how to promote and support crowdsourced visioning. Please RSVP at https://luma.com/azkbyo1j so I know how many to expect. If you do want to participate, please register ASAP because I plan to let the larger group know and have some other folks I’m going to ask to participate. Thanks! — Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. Executive Officer and Principal Eduity, LLC www.eduity.net greg(a)eduity.net 706-271-5521

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Envisioning Prosperity
by Greg Laudeman July 8, 2026

July 8, 2026

We had good discussion in the last Regular Meeting that confirmed our direction and focus. Basically, we're embracing visioning as a community activity and practice. The goal for the group is to apply what we’ve learned by convening, facilitating, hosting, and participating in visioning meetings. Results of the meetings will be shared and summarized. We will crowdsource visioning by adapting the /VISIONS '86 Do It Yourself Kit/ for our purpose since we don't have resources for a formal effort. This is essentially about listening to community members about what they want for the future. This is important for Chattanooga.Digital: We need to know what the community needs so we can provide software that fits those needs. I will be participating as a representative of Chattanooga.Digital. Visioning meetings may be on any general topic, but we’re going to focus on/Prosperity/ — how people earn money, generate income, and make a living (other general BTW topics are People, Places, Play, and Public). Chattanooga.Digital will focus on entrepreneurs and small business, including non-profits, by sponsoring dialogues as visioning meeting to be podcast. Ideally, these will have simultaneous "satellite" meetings. We'll see. The crowdsourcing will require conveners, facilitators, and hosts/locations, along with participants. If you or someone you know might be willing to do any of that, please complete our interest form online here! <https://go.eduity.net/apps/forms/s/ACYKwmKw5Y3axWfBCWAWgb2q> I'll work on a "toolkit," which shouldn't take long because it's basically a really simple spreadsheet template. All of this will be on venturing.chattanooga.digital <https://venturing.chattanooga.digital/> so set up an account there to participate in the discussion. Let's set up some private topics about how to proceed, especially recruiting and on-boarding facilitators. -- Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. Instigator Chattanooga.Digital

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CVSG Regular Meeting 7/7/26: Visioning
by Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. July 6, 2026

July 6, 2026

My thinking about what the Study Group can/should do has evolved. I recommend that we embrace visioning. We should make it a practice and use creating a community vision from the grassroots up as a goal for engaging and listening to community members. We can do this pretty easily by adapting Venture’s VISIONS 86 Do It Yourself Kit to current situation and capitalize on current technology. The big question is how (and whether you want) to: (a) convene and/or facilitate visioning meetings, (b) encourage, identify, and/or recruit others, particularly young adults, to do so, and/or (c) hear from community members about their goals, issues, needs, and opportunities. Our regular meeting tomorrow will focus on answering each part of this question. Specifically, I’ll review the “DIY Kit” and we’ll discuss how to crowdsource “Envision Chattanooga.” Chattanooga.Digital is definitely interested in all of the above, and we’ll provide the tools. Going forward, I’ll be engaging in the study group from that perspective, as a representative of Chattanooga.Digital. If you feel the community is fragmented, not effectively addressing key issues, and we need a shared vision for the community that comes from the people… Please join the meeting or follow-up. Your input is vital! Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 7, 12:00 PM, in person at 332 E M L King Blvd or online at https://go.eduity.net/call/3hmzaw47. — Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. Executive Officer and Principal Eduity, LLC www.eduity.net greg(a)eduity.net 706-271-5521

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Chattanooga Visioning
by Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. July 1, 2026

July 1, 2026

As you know, we've been wrestling with what the Study Group should be when it grows up. The purpose has always been to learn about community engagement. We're evolving from passive to active learning. So what is it we're doing? On one level, listening. To what end? What's going to come of it? The first step in the community venturing is to envision what we want for the future. We're listening to hear about people's vision. We also an issue of "branding" for folks to easily grasp what it's all about. How do we talk about it? So... I think we should embrace "Visioning"! We're "crowdsourcing visioning." That's what Venture called it and we're using their methodology. What do you think? -- Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. *Executive Officer and Principal* Eduity, LLC www.eduity.net greg(a)eduity.net 706-271-5521

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