Re: Great Community Engagement Reader

Owen
thank you-

Regarding your suggestion that what is needed is tools, I am not sure

There are plenty of tools for engagement - including your own which may
partly fulfil that purpose

What we have found over years of community work is that there are
individuals and organisations
that take a lot out from the community - in terms of knowledge, ideas,
resources, shared freely and without hidden agendas, for the joy of
sharing,  and use the same for personal gains (career, funding publications
that do not credit the source of what they write etc) without ever giving
anything back

In my view, what we need more of is honesty and genuine interest in the
common good
something that is very rare,
We keep at it nonetheless, magic still happens between the cracks
I am hoping someone earning a salary elsewhere but utterly bored with their
life and a few spare cycles may become involved as community engagement
manager with this C

p



On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 10:34 AM Owen Ambur <owen.ambur@verizon.net> wrote:

> Paola, when you're ready to share your proposal, I'll look forward to
> learning if it lends itself to rendition as a performance plan in StratML
> Part 2 format.
>
> In the meantime, your message prompted me to convert to StratML Part 1
> format the about statements for CSCCE & Community Initiatives at
> https://stratml.us/drybridge/index.htm#CI4
>
> As far as the challenge of engagement is concerned, it seems to me what's
> needed is pretty clear and relatively simple -- online tools that make it
> easy for users to contribute to the realization of objectives of particular
> interest to them:
>
> For those who care enough, the first step is to clarify and share their
> objectives in an open, machine-readable format.
>
> The second is to develop services making it relatively easy for users to
> share and discover objectives of special interest to them.
>
> And the third step is to provide services enabling users to *contribute*
> to the realization of common and complementary objectives *as best their
> time, resources, and expertise allow*.
>
>
> If those steps are well executed, the results (or lack thereof) will speak
> efficiently and effectively for themselves.  Otherwise we can just keep
> writing scholarly articles and exchanging messages like this.
>
> BTW, CSCCE's guidebook could also be rendered as a model performance plan for
> community managers but I am not yet sufficienty motivated to do that for
> them.
>
> Owen Ambur
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenambur/
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 11:43:21 AM EDT, Paola Di Maio <
> paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Greetings folks
>
> This CG has over seventy members, but low member engagement. It would be
> great if someone would take up the challenge to engage the community base
>
> I ll be sharing a proposal soon - waiting for the scholarly publication
> currently with the publisher before sharing the gist of what I have been
> working on - but obviously everyone is welcome to come up with suggestions
> and plans on how to take things forward.
>
> Courtesy of the CSCCE, a great resource to stimulate interest in the role
> (volunteer) and recommended reading for everyone interested in community
> engagement
>
> *The CSCCE Skills Wheel – Five core competencies and 45 skills to describe
> the role of the community engagement manager in STEM.*
> https://zenodo.org/record/4437294#.Y07FXExBzrd
> *This guidebook is intended to be a brief, practical introduction to
> scientific community manager roles and provide a starting point for
> discussing common questions about them.*
>
> Pdm
>