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!

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 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.

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Greg Laudeman, Ed.D.
Instigator
Chattanooga.Digital