Some next steps for the Future Indiana network meeting Sat May 30, 2009

Unfortunately, I won't be able to join Everyone for this Saturday's meeting.

Having shared in last month's Future Indiana meeting, here are ideas and action steps I would suggest the group take in your time together this weekend:

1. set the next year out meeting dates and post to Future Indiana/Near-Time calendar
   
2. become a small community of experts at what each of you do
3. seek to influence each other
4. Future Indiana Near-Time space: complete member pages; make individual commitments to post to the blog on a regular basis; invite 5 people to the space; post photos; summarize education-training-work experience-interests-talents - use LinkedIn profile as a template
   
5. list and describe initiatives of each member present; select 3-5 initiatives to develop and promote endorsed by Future Indiana network; identify where each one needs to be in the short future and the next steps to get there (Strategic Doing) you can follow these worksheets to get your strategy in place, the worksheets help you to define your immediate next steps and then begin to build the network you need to meet your goals. You will not do this in 5 days this is a process over time and will get you started to think about how to move forward
6. talk about contacting Purdue Center for Regional Development to see what they can do to support the Future Indiana network 
7. Open up the idea of participating in a geographically based network of I-Open Civic Forums (basic white paper attached). We are working on next steps for this now and will talk about this again soon with you

Why not broadcast the meeting? I can show you quickly how to use your producer status on Livestream (formerly Mogulus) and we can talk via Skype. Can you connect off of your Flip, a camera, mobile device or phone with 3G capacity, or broadcast from a video camera?