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Week ending October 17
10/11 and 10/12: Paul Fitzpatrick made further updates to the prototype online directory.
More fields have been added and can be used as search categories. Latest modifications
show up on front page. More to come.
10/13: Email sent from Coop Life to the readers of the Cooperative Life Leader inviting
them to fill out a short version of the survey and telling them that they will get a follow-
up phone call. Four people filled out the survey on the first day. In all, the email netted 19
responses (as of 10/22).
10/13-10/20: Kept staff at CDI updated as to who had already filled out the survey so that
they would not call them and ask them the same questions over again.
Week ending October 24
10/20: Left a voicemail and sent an email to a first-year CED student, Zoe Hollomon,
who worked on a Coop Business Directory a few years ago for the region around Ithaca,
NY. It would be great to get whatever her research was.
10/22: Had a conference phone call of the online products committee. Gathered feedback
on the current version of the directory and formulated next steps for design work and web
server hosting. Next meeting will be 12/1. Target is to have something ready to show the
membership at the online annual meeting 12/16.
Week ending October 31
I have not done much. However, CDI has been actively soliciting responses to the online
survey, and the total tally of new responses is in the mid-40s now since the push began.
So with the 20ish responses from before, we have passed the midway point of the goal of
100 responses. We have gotten at least one response from each of the six New England
states and NY, as well as from other locations. Respondents have included housing,
consumer food, worker, energy, purchasing, marketing, agricultural, nonprofit, and credit
union organizations. My role has been to keep CDI staff apprised of those who have
responded so that they can be taken from the contact list.
Week ending November 14
11/10: Met with Jason Pramas, outreach coordinator for Massachusetts Global Action. He
was one of the main organizers of the Boston Social Forum, and may be a key contact
when it comes to networking with organizations to get them to add themselves to the
Directory and participate in the Announcement mechanism.
11/14: Formulated a new method of categorization for the directory that would
accommodate the previous co-op categories but be more inviting to all other types of
organizations involved in building the cooperative economy. Categories/Sectors are
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