Elevating Environment Discourse
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Project Proposal
I. Boulder Stand
a. This is a working title from Ben Hale. The name is inspired by a “newsstand” and taking a stand for accurate environmental information. Aspen trees look like they are standing individually, but underground are interconnected with their roots. This is a metaphor for the site that will pull in different blogs and news feeds into one location. Boulder is in the title to give more recondition to the University of Colorado’s environmental research.
II. Members, classifications and emails
a. Joy Hamilton: joy.hamilton@colorado.edu
b. Katie Feldhaus: Katie.feldhaus@colorado.edu
c. Travis Keeper: travis.keeper@colorado.edu
d. Sarah Ruybalid sarah.ruybalid@colorado.edu
e. Daniel Randa Daniel.randa@colorado.edu
III. Statement of purpose
a. Build self-sustaining website that aggregates blogs and relevant news, opinion, and commentary pertaining to environmental news and resources. One stop shop for everything environmental.
IV. Scope and Scale
a. The main focus of the site is to highlight CU’s environmental research experts and their work (including blogs, commentary, etc.). The site will also serve as a collective resource of environmental terms, a clearinghouse of videos related to the topic, and links to other useful resources.
b. Maintenance of website will be limited in that much of the content will be static, and other portions (blog feeds) will be self-sustaining.
V. Division of Labor
a. TBD
VI. Website will be similar in nature to Climate Wire, Grist, Huffington Post (Green section), and google reader. Bloggers initially will include Tom Yulesman, Ben Hale, and Max Boycoff. The Boulder Stand will pull RSS feeds from these contributing bloggers.
VII. Programming, design, communication with key stakeholders, and timeline.
1 Comments:
Ok, a few early reactions:
The blog feeds will be from Tom, Ben and Roger Pilke (not Max Boycoff). Max will contribute in select guest blog posts and video archives.
I know that you need to know more of your capabilities to fill out some of the other specifics, but you should be discussing potential division of labor models. Are some of you more interested in design than content production? Vice-versa? You might want to start setting some of these expectations.
On section 6, it might be good to start the laundry list (FAQ, glossary, profiles, visualization library, video library, etc.) The more specific you are, the less confusion will exist concerning what needs to be produced. The earlier you get a specific list, the better.
The more general aspects of this proposal look good.
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