Drumbeat/events/toronto/training/followup

Three key take-aways

• Make a wish to the Drumbeat universe (international)
• Stuff you can offer and stuff you need to succeed (local)
• Ask people "When you do case study / speed geeing, make sure you have a list of follow-up asks"
• Having some kind of encouragement for simple follow-up events, e.g., coffee klatch, kitchen table sprint, DemoCamp Drumbeat, etc. (Keep the rhythm going!)
• Local-to-local; find out who your local peers are.

Challenge

• How to "be where the network is"
• Vs. building our own network
• Avoiding the sense of competition
• How to have a broad number of voices, but _also_ coordination

Ideas

• Brainstorm / inventory -> Parking lot
  • Resources
  • Opportunities
  • Committments
  • Networks
  • Gives / Asks
• Commitment level
  • Local / global
  • Short term / long term
  • Small network / big committment
• Get folks to make a personal commitment and then mail it back to them

Tactics / Big Tent

• We don't have to make it political
• We can agree on the common points and avoid the other stuff
• Follow througs:
  • Local
  • Global

Our Experiences of Events / Brainstorm

• Every has a positive experience at the event; then nothing happens.
• Question: How to get actual tangible things.

• Getting roped into bigger commitments
• Question: How to avoid over-committing / commitment is too high

• Question: How to balance the recruitment / prep those that need to recruit to be ready to make the ask
• Q: If we want a local community, how do we keep the pump primed…?
• Q: How to you create "low bar" genuine participation opportunities
  • Resource "Free culture lunch" in NYC.

• For follow-up: Optimal opp is low-bar high-focus...

• The Turning POint social movement
  • Ask people for their visions for social change
  • The ideas was to prepare groups to take on movement-building
  • But, people are overloaded, overcommitted, and so on...
  • Therefor, what are the common points of alliance vs....?
  • Opp: How do we make the story relevant to a broad number of people
  • Changing behaviour is also relevant; follow-up with an action vs. an ongoing commitment

• How to keep people connected and focused on action?
  • Needs to be relevant
  • Has to also be a small, low, commitment
  • Connecting resources, i.e., "What can you _give_ to help the open Web movement."

• Q: How to throw out the follow-up to the projects that need support, e.g., P2PU
• Q: How to create affinity, connections, and networks…? Mapping / inventory…? Reveal the network and the periphery of opportunities…?
• Q: Is the only pattern for it to carry on other events like this one today…?
• Build infrastructure: coalitions, networks, affinity … parallel infrastructure