Reply To: Monthly Meeting Agendas + Notes

[Jessie Croteau]

August 7, 2024

Action items

• Noah
  • Create book list for newsletter
• Mark
  • Shared Zotero bibliography plugin
  • DOI for atmospheres?
• Jessie
  • Write CFP
• Mike
  • Share decompositions CFP
• Everyone
  • Share CFP after approval with networks

Summary

• Questions
  • How can we grow the community?
  • What are the members or potential new members looking for?
  • What to do with this cool platform we have?
  • Choose to tradeoff visibility for better engagement?
• Particulars of the Air collective
  • Smaller than the land collective
    • Needs more folks
  • Purpose = how to better active community presence online
  • Used to be an extension of an academic space – lectures, etc.
    • Turned to a more social media platform
      • Mixed bag, a bit touch and go with engagement
  • Want it to be more than Baltimore
  • People very rarely are actually engaged
    • What does engagement look like?
      • Posting – comments, stories, events
      • Reacting
• Updates
  • Redesign of the home page – Landing on the website will look different
• Areas of focus
  • More events
    • Advertise local events provides most traffic
      • Social media built around events?
    • Posting more local events
    • Hosting events through the EDC
  • More sustained engagement
    • Online courses
  • Take stories – short form blog posts and developed into Atmospheres series
    • Short and specific blogs – just in time production
    • People already part of the EDC
    • Asking the same questions to multiple people