How should we launch & use Loomio?

Hi Max. Do we have a code of conduct for posts on Loomio? Pretty standard practice for something like this, at least to prevent hate speech, insults and spamming. Perhaps Lou Lou has some experience writing these things up or has one we can roughly cut and paste?

We have a social media guidelines post which covers all social media (which this arguably could be seen as). We also have a code of conduct for all interactions (which would apply here) and is being refreshed by Lexy and Sam. Happy to include Loomio in our social media and relations guidelines.

Lou lou has something which is shared on the Facebook page (I've attached it here). I'm sure all the same requests of members could be applied for Loomio. Some of it might need amending to make it more Loomio-specific, though.

Thanks for reminding folks of this! And yes we are in process of updating the code of conduct to cover all online platforms and Nest activities etc.

So for me, we need to decide a few things: Where loomio sits in the organisation, what its purpose is and how it should be moderated. Then UI design if at all. Then we need an implementation plan and outreach once we've increased capacity on users.

I understand that Max thinks this should be a Community Embassy tool, but as it's a lot of admin there needs to be a team who has oversight/moderation. For me Loomio is a communication channel and should be managed as Comms Team are managing SM channels. However, it's up to the community at large to decide. I've already been having experience that it's me as the voice of Nest who is compelled to respond to some things here in official capacity, so it's already a big grey area... it think we need to make it a bit more black and white so it funtions as we want it to. First of all we need to work out how we want it to function, and what we want to get out of it. it's not just a case of 'ok, here go you, go for it'.... that won't serve anyone. The other decisions will come from that.

Spot the corporate change and communications manager

It's a comms channel, to be sure. But so are all the others. Why so many ?

It seems there's :

Nest website for announcements and public info
Loomio for organisational announcements and discussion
Slack for something unknown
Asana for task management
Email for organisational announcements and private feedback
Facebook for enriching Zuckerburg, selling contact info to marketing companies and theme camp recruitment
Probably some others I haven't found yet

Is there really nothing that does more than one of these things ?

We're not using Slack in the core team anymore, though others maybe. I agree that we have too many comms channels. Thanks for the feedback we'll add it to the list of things to consider for next year

@adriangodwin and @pauliophario As a comms professional, as long as they are integrated, you can't have too many comms channels, all told. People absorb information differently, in different formats, at different times and in different ways. People need to be told one thing three times in three different ways for the message to land.

The list you have made above Adrian aren't all direct comms channels that reach everyone. Asana isn't a comms channel for a start. It's a project management tool. As Paul says we don't use slack.
We have:
- The website which should always be the fount of all knowledge.
- mail shots which direct people to the fount of all knowledge.
- social media to further highlight information. This audience is limited and unpredictable and shouldn't be relied upon as a complete comms channel. Threading to news feeds can be very unreliable, people take social media breaks. Not everyone is on facebook.
- loomio which is a decision making channel and is in fact a point of information output.
- community meetings which are the only face to face channel. We sometimes do community calls (we did for newbies this year).

That's it. Our three main channels should always be Website, Mailouts and Community meetings.

Hi Siren, Thanks for that - I'm sure they all have their uses, but you're thinking of it from the point of view of someone who wants to get information out. As someone who mostly wants to receive information and not miss anything important, it would seem that it should be enough to just read the mailouts, but that's far from true if you want to get involved. I've found Loomio a big help in getting a sense of what's going on but I'm pretty sure I'm still missing a lot.

I was expecting to be able to notify those who voted in the water poll of our decision, but it seems we have hit our notification limit? :confused face: