KMers Community Objectives
KMers has some governance to help it run smoothly. The leadership team meets once a month and has drafted the following objectives/metrics for the community. We would love to have some feedback from the community itself on what our objectives should be. Note: ping me on @swanwick, if you don't want your comment to be publicly posted
Objectives
1) Provide an online environment that
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a) is a rallying place for KMers to collaborate
b) helps the community (democratically) set its own discussion agenda
c) Helps KMers of similar interest to find each other
d) captures synchronous collaboration information for easy lookup/reference any time
2) Steward the community by
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a) reaching out to new potential members
b) helping to recruit moderators
c) Listening to the needs of the community and responding via continuous improvement
d) Seeding the community with quality content/ideas
e) Trying out new ways of synchronous collaboration that drive online community
Metrics/Activities
1. Member Numbers
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a) Minimum of 50 new members/month
b) 500 members by end of Q2, 2010
2. Member Engagement
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a) Encourage support/adoption by Twitter newbies
b) 1 new moderator/month
3. Community Activity
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a) Never <5 active chatters on any chat
b) 5 website content updates/week
4. Chat Quality
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a) A quality chat every week
We are open to suggestions on our very non-measurable metric 4a. :)
In the longer term, we will be less concerned about member numbers, but we feel in the short-term, we need to achieve a critical mass.
Objectives
I am not a professional KMer. I come from the world of Print, now retired and focused on improving educational outcomes in bottom of the pyramid high schools in the States.
I am wondering if it might be appropriate to consider improving education is a non "professional" goal. I know that MD_Santo has joined education with knowledge management. To me, it seems a perhaps under appreciated synergy.
Combining the insights and practice of KM and with those of middle school education should prove useful to both activites.
What really matters?
I guess these are ok activity metrics to see if we are healthy as a community. I do not see them as real objectives. I am not sure what the objectives should be. I guess I would be looking for something like:
1) Create a place where people want to come and hang out to hear the latest stuff on KM
2) Have conversations that matter on an on-going basis
3) Identify what the members need and want and then figure out how to provide it
4) Figure out more ways to collaborate as a community to make a difference
I know - hard to measure these but these feel better to me as objectives.
it matters 2 me
I like your matters mneff! Got to look you up for name ;-)
Peter a.k.a. profbury currently hanging out in Kampala to work on accountability in WASH sector
Poor man's Google Wave
You make some great points. I was assuming a lot of higher-level objectives that I should not be taking for granted. I have updated the original post (much like one would use a Wave). Let me know what you think about it now.
Nice update
Yes, sorry if those objectives were implied. I think it helps to make them explicit. Then you can build activity metrics to associate with those objectives.