November 15, 2009 « Open Forum Foundation

Board of Directors Meeting

2009-11-15 7:00pm – 8:00pm EST
Via Calliflower – recorded

Attending

Dave Weinberg, President
Nisma Zaman, Secretary
Shadee Malaklou

Wayne Burke, Executive Director

Commitments and Decisions

Board voted to add Meagen Ryan to the Board of Directors and also to serve as Chair of the Fundraising Committee
Board decided that the blog for the list-building campaign is part of a later strategy that will commence sometime after the Tents of Responsive Government has been finalized
Wayne will send the handout for donors to the Board for review
Wayne will convey his goals for the Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) in Barcelona to the Board and will report on contacts made, information gleaned, etc. upon returning from the trip

Meeting Minutes Summary

NEW BOARD MEMBER

Meagen Ryan introduced herself as a marketing strategist with Rock Creek Strategic Marketing. She met Wayne at a conference. Her area of expertise is in messaging and fundraising.

After Meagen got off the phone, we voted unanimously to add her to the Board of Directors. Dave suggested that her title include “Chair, Fundraising Committee” since her expertise is in fundraising, along with marketing and branding. Dave and Wayne will work with her on the strategy of the Fundraising Committee and on how best to set up a Board of Governors.

Meagen has already been quite involved in the branding of O.F.F. and has been working with Wayne on the mission, elevator pitch, tagline, and a single-fold four-page handout to send to potential donors. The Tenets of Responsive Government will be folded in this.

REPORT FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Wayne was able to raise $3,500 in three days (see his blog post for more details). He will be focusing on fundraising and networking, along with delegating and directing, almost exclusively moving forward.

GovLuv is up and running and feedback is coming in. It is currently being improved for use by representatives and Paris Marron is volunteering by searching out twitter accounts for government reps.

Wayne is departing on Tuesday for Barcelona to attend the Personal Democracy Forum. He will be staying with a Spanish lawyer and has already made some great connections in advance.

Wayne will resurrect work on CongressCamp after he returns from Barcelona.

Wayne will be speaking at the Gov 2.5 conference on December 13^th, giving a 20 minute speech on “The Many Faces of Twitter and Constituent Engagement.”

GovLoop’s Awesome Gov Feedback Forum is running a competition, so we should ask our contacts to vote for the O.F.F. by 12/15. Board members should tweet it, post it on their facebook pages, and so forth.