Monday 14 February 2011

More Project Plan-making, a 'Comms Strategy', and web-presence design notes

Today was attempt two to get the Project Plan looking like a Project Plan.  One of Melita's suggestions was to use the SMART acronym - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-specific.  Using this certainly honed my rambling and unfocussed objectives, but I'm not sure it looks like a professional Project Plan just yet...
Still, by lunchtime I had sent off draft two to Melita to see whether it measured up to her experienced and well-practised standards.

Following a far-too-hasty lunch, I set to work pacing out the Communication Strategy for the project at this stage.  Following the meeting, Melita and I sketched out a very basic idea that communications would have a 3-tier system
  • Tier 1 is 'Us' - me, Melita and Peter.  (This might include the core team of young people later down the line too).
  • Tier 2 is 'Our Partners' - the CCT, whichever youth organisation becomes our primary partner for the HLF Young Roots big, the other youth organisations that are supporting the project, and the South Somerset District Council who I am reliably informed is the 'Project Champion'. 
  • Tier 3 is 'the rest of the world'.  As in everyone. *gulp* 
Being an advocate of 21st century technology, tier 1 has the possibilities of having lots of exciting online meetings and web-based shared file software.  I'd like to use facebook to connect to the core team of young people, because lets face it, its a lot easier to log on to the mountain than try and move the mountain to some sort of metaphor that young people aren't attached to every day anyway. Also phonecalls, but that's boring.

At the moment tier 2 is basically just emailing, keeping in touch with our partners and making sure everyone's updated on the project, but I'm sure this will develop as the project gets under way and we start working with the (other) young people.

Tier 3 is going to be our very exciting and flashy nexus of web-presence centred around the 'Project Development Website'...or it might not be, nothing's been OK'd just yet, but I'm sure it'll be fine.  What I'd like it to be is a big empire of internetiness to go alongside the project, covering a website, a blog (you're looking at it), twitter, foursquare, potentially a flickr stream, and who knows what else.  However, at this stage this is all in mine and Melita's heads (except the blog, silly), so it might amount to something entirely different.  Either way, the world will hear about our project. :)

Finally today I have been jotting down a couple of notes about what I'd like the Project Development Website to look like.  When Melita and I were brainstorming the objectives of the website, one phrase stuck out for me - 'it will be a look into our folder'.  The idea of the website is to show our progression and the development of the project, so why not have the frontpage of the website look like the inside of a briefcase? (The inspiration for that came from here, as if JKRowling hadn't done enough already!)
But as I say, this is all a bit pie-in-the-sky at the moment, so don't get too excited just yet. *attempts to follow own advice*.

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