Group Webinar results

Hi folks,

Team 3, now known as team devastator, had our phone chat last night. We have 2 ideas we really like. The group is dividing up to work on one or the other in more detail, start to mock up what it owuld look like, how people would use it. They have nice connections for local news organizations, are going after good target audiences, and have built ways for the users to be both consumers and producers of news which i like a lot. And they seem different from other things out there. A version of the 2 ideas are on the team blog - this week hopefully they will get even more fleshed out and pictures should start to appear.

We also have at least one person we're going to cut for non-performance. I'm ready to send at least one of the people a message today - anybody think of a reason to wait? They have missed a couple of chats, haven't posted, didn't work with the groups developing the ideas the last couple of weeks and didn't come thru with the research on the idea they had picked to work on. So not just one kind of non-performance, but several. Again - anybody have a reason I should wait/not cut them? Let me know

url for team 2

http://rockchucks.wordpress.com

Here's the group formerly known as team 3 - now known as team devastator

http://teamdevastator.blogspot.com/

Post blogs

Team leaders, or knowledgeable others, please post all three team blogs.

thanks,

Darcy

Here's the info from brandy

Brandy will (already did) book all of the hotel rooms in Toronto.
Pay for and register all the people going to ONA.
Set it up so that any school that can't afford travel can call out travel agent and I will pay that bill.

I need!!

- To know everyone who is going - we are traveling there on Wednesday, 10/17, presenting on the evening of the 18th, and departing on the 19th.
I will need name, address, phone, grad or undergrad, if they are a member and the ID if so,
If someone wants to stay on Friday night, the grant can't pay for this, so I'll need a credit card to book the room for another night. (ASAP - the hotel is filling fast)

I also need to know if anyone is willing to double up. (would faculty share any rooms to save some $?)
I really need to know if there are any students that would have 4 in a room, 2 per double bed. I would need to get a list together of who is rooming together soon!

Team Rockchucks

The team formerly known as Team Two is the Rockchucks (long story, and I suspect sleep deprivation was a factor in the misidentification of an actual critter Saturday morning in front of the IC dorms).
Here is the link to their blog.
We will be teleconferencing/meeting Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern time, 6 p.m. Vegas time, 8 p.m. San Antonio time, and I have no idea what's wrong with Kansas time ;-)
Should any "floating" faculty care to join Darcy and me on the call, pipe up --
Thanks!

Floaters vs consultants

In preparing for Fall semester and Phase II of the Innovation Incubator, I feel that going with the role of consultant may be better than the role of floater for the non assigned faculty.

Keeping up on three team blogs, being prepared for three different discussions and thinking about the details of all the projects may be too much work when combined with other duties. May we consider assigning the "floaters" to the teams they worked with in Ithaca. As a result, each team would have two full time faculty members. Any faculty member could be "invited" by another team to consult with them on specific issues concerning their project.

What are your thoughts?
If we keep the floater, can the role be simplified?

blog url for what was team 3

now known as team devastator
http://teamdevastator.blogspot.com/

this week they're looking into a couple of different audiences
still kicking around the video idea but looking for a focus, for what audiences need/want

till school starts anyway - we're going to talk on sunday evening at 8:30 eastern time


Kim

Jeff Jarvis has post about another incubator project in Journalism

in his BuzzMachine blog

The project was over at the Economist magazine. Sounds like they were doing things similar to our project - be open, talk to lots of people, come up with something on the web that was innovative.

he has some good critiques of their process - the biggest complaint was that they didn't come up with a business idea as a philanthropic/social service kind of idea that won't help the magazine's business much in the near or long term.

And he describes (briefly - would love to hear more) a new class he's teaching - on entrepreneurial journalism. The students will have to do this kind of innovation process too.

Kim