[Community Communication Project]

The Community Communication Project is an attempt to find better ways for communities to interact, to share information -- to communicate. Ideally, this would lead to the identification or discovery of a model (a group of principles or structures) that could scale to fit a particular size community (say, a campus or a neighborhood or a city and so on). Imagine trying to solve a community problem and being able to tie into the most appropriate, effective, and efficient modes of communication you need: whether printed newsletters and flyers, video and television, web and email, facilitated group meetings, radio and telephone, personal contact, and so on.

Imagine developing a comprehensive, or unified, way for our communities to communicate: to communify who we are, where we are.

While there are several pieces already available and some already in use, the puzzle still hasn't been pieced together into a comprehensive picture. It is exactly that picture we seek. The slogan I return to again and again is "Our community is content-rich, but distribution-poor." Share the wealth.


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Introduction

Friday, June 16, 2000

VOC

I attended the monthly gathering of the Virtual Organization of Chattanooga at Erlanger Hospital (in one of their nice dining rooms). Around 20 people were present, representing various organizations ranging from the police department to nonprofits. I'll just touch on some main points. First Call for Help announced that the Center for Nonprofits has placed their resource directory online. BellSouth announced that their MyWay services are underway. The VOC web page is still in development. More progress is being made on a new CAP grant. Leland Kaiser is scheduled to return in mid-December. Mark Kiel from Chattanooga city government mentioned progress on new technology incubators. And the new director of the Community Outreach Partnership Center (as I understand it, part of the Center for Applied Social Research at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) starts in late July.

I see a lot of potential in the VOC projects. From the Community Link experience I know how difficult it is to make changes in a community, or even get the logistics sorted out. I don't see a conflict or redundancy between what this Community Communication Project is trying to do; perhaps one kind of distinction to make is that the VOC is developing content and my focus for the CCP is developing distribution.

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