Staff/2010-07-14

Call info

Catalyst campaign wrap-up: working on putting together giving analysis that includes 2009 fundraising campaign and Catalyst Campaign.
Continued prep for fall fundraising campaign: working out T-shirt order, reviewing design, plans to leverage community in support of CC; put together a brief for potential copywriter.
worked with Melissa to organize files and other development resources in preparation for her move.
SF salon last Tuesday: went well, did follow-up and discussed with development/design/communications how to continue to improve for future.
Mailings: continuing to improve & make more strategic the mailings we send to our community
Ongoing: volunteer coordination
Preparing to be offline starting July 17 for 2 weeks

comments to nick shockey about SPARC/R2RC website
OER policy interview with Lisa Petrides posted - http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22608
other bloggin - http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22712
drafted but on hold "CC and 'some rights reserved' marking blog post
attended USTPO-NTIA symposium on Copyright Policy, Creativity & Innovation in the Internet Economy
briefing for Melanie and Alex for their meeting at Hewlett re: California Free Digital Textbook Initiative
followup with RE: FDTI meeting, esp. with brian bridges from CLRN
working on sketching out potential CC materials for OER policy toolkit
attended grant workshops on proposal writing and budgeting
met up with with Smithsonian Commons' Michael Edson on OER
update the Learning Beyond Textbooks website with new language, waiting for others to edit
iNACOL k-12 OER survey closed - 88 respondents, now will analyze with Sunnie Kim
phone call with David Witzel, others from Environmental Defense Fund RE: OER in business sustainability
attending their small meeting in DC July 20
sent ideas for CC superheroes to allison
oer advocacy coalition working group biweekly phone call

COMMUNIA and Wikimania as well. Will support Mike in summary during call.
- CC Europe meeting
- meetings re: Europeana, collecting societies
- panel at WM about CC affiliate network and collaboration with WM chapters/communities: http://piratepad.net/opera
Catalyst Grants closed with 134 submission, almost $50K raised: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Grants
- review to begin this week
Ongoing upgrade of affiliate documents with Diane & Aurelia: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/International

music/culture blogs outreach
Film Annex Web TV embeds for wiki and blog post
pursuing a couple OER policy interviews w/K-12 educators
social media plan, met w/Cameron and delegated upkeep (FB & twitter chatter)
revising /Marking/Creators (in draft first) to make it more user friendly and to integrate relevant ccLearn docs
helped tvol out w/ looking up cc license use for training materials
P2PU feedback on ongoing projects and developments
other feedback/tasks/news/blogs/tweets/etc.

this week:

Affiliate Program Improvements w/ Michelle and Diane: Posting updated MOU and policies to the wiki for public comment (see http://wiki.creativecommons.org/International)
Catalyst Grants: Formal review starting soon
Database with Alex and Reg: Giving feedback when I can be of help
HR with Jen - very happy to be full time now :)

Working w/ JP on finalizing social media plan for immediate future (to be later revised)
Updated attribution info on video pages
Organizing ES contacts
Assisting JP w/ updating marking best practices doc
General outreach/feedback for a variety of groups
General blog/microblog

Working away on the FAQ Project