2015-08-31 Communications Team Meeting

Meeting Information

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2 - 3 PM US Central Time

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Pre-Meeting Notes and Links to Supporting Resources

Meeting Minutes

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Anti-Trust (Project Manager or Meeting Facilitator)Each participant indicates that he/she understands and agrees to abide by the AgGateway Anti-Trust Policy, or leaves the meeting.All are agreed.
2Minutes Taker (Project Manager)A minutes taker has been selected.Shannon Haringx (Unlicensed) will take notes.
3Meeting Agenda (Meeting facilitator)The group understands the agenda, adjusting it as necessary.

The team understood the agenda.

AGENDA:

  • Review open tasks
    • SPADE3 Company Recruitment message content (Shannon)
    • SPADE3 Public Wiki Landing Page draft (Elizabeth) 
    • SPADE3 Marketing Plan & Calendar (Shannon)
    • Followup with Arren and Todd on Communications Priorities (Andres, Jim)
  • Urgent Items
  • Come to Consensus on Comms role in Industry Relations & Reaching out to manufacturers on Reference Data APIs
  • Review Stakeholder Priority Feedback
  • Prioritize deliverables for Communications team

 

DISCUSSION:

  • SPADE3 Public Wiki Landing Page draft was reviewed - looks good.  Team will review in more depth off line and provide final feedback to Elizabeth before next meeting.
  • SPADE3 Company Recruitment message content was reviewed and feedback received.  Shannon to work in the feedback and send a new version by email for final feedback.
  • The team agrees it would be ideal to establish a communications strategy to develop the overarching marketing plan prior to pursuing priorities and initiatives.  Shannon to setup a separate meeting to start the discussion. (Put together a PO3 document to use as a guideline: PO3=Purpose, Objectives, Outcome, Output.)
    • Open items regarding Industry Relations and Reaching out to Manufacturers on Reference Data APIs will be resolved through this process. 
    • All other priorities and deliverables will follow establishment of PO3.
    • Shannon to send out invite for kickoff meeting @4pm EST/3pm CST on Wednesday, 8/9.
    • Team will review template and determine timeline for PO3 at the kickoff.
  • Andres to find out if Kanban board/Jira has capability for task reminders.
  • Andres/Jim have not yet confirmed with Arren & Todd regarding their requested priorities.
  • Jim: We need "the" presentation for SPADE; Jim gets asked by the press "what is the benefit to the grower?"
  • Jim: SPADE3 External Communications should be framed to communicate the grower benefit as a general guideline
  • The team will determine priorities based on the PO3, align with feedback already received and propose a final version to be presented to the SPADE board for inform/comment.

Previous Notes for Reference:

  • Review Communications priorities feedback
    • Andres & Jim took an action to follow up with Arren Mund on his #1 priority request to see what he had in mind and what his urgency may be
    • Andres & Jim to follow up with Todd Howatt regarding his #1 request for identifying industry relations gaps
    • Discussed whether or not Industry Relations gaps should be in scope for Communications
      • Dennis already has an activity in place for this
      • Coalition for Advancement of Precision Ag (CAPA) is already addressing this
      • Team Consensus: product owners are better suited to identifying gaps - need more discussion on whether there is anything we can do to help
    • Discussed whether or not reaching out to manufacturers about Reference Data for APIs should be in scope for Communications
      • Team consensus: need more discussion to confirm if this should be removed from scope
  • Agree on priorities:
  • Shannon to send an email with proposed priorities for team consensus via email before next meeting.
  • Most mentioned priorities in feedback received were: 
    • Stakeholder Value Statements
    • Project Dashboard
    • Internal Talking Points 

 

Items to be tracked on Communications Calendar:

  • Industry Tradeshows/Conferences
  • Industry relations meetings (SPADE participants meeting with external organizations, i.e. ASABE)

  • Press Releases

  • Articles to be published about SPADE

  • Other external communication events

  • Target Delivery Dates for Communications Initiatives

    • Individual Promotional Collateral pieces
    • Stakeholder Value Statements
    • Internal Talking Points
    • Website enhancements
    • Social Media plan & tactics

 

Communications Initiatives:

  • Value Statements for various stakeholder groups
  • Talking Points for internal transparency (within PAC/across AgGateway)
  • Promotional Collateral (digital docs for easy sharing)
  • Communications Calendar (to align with industry events)
  • SPADE3 Dashboard
  • Social Media strategy
  • Website enhancement/utilization 
  • Identify/address industry relations gaps
  • Reference Data API implementation work, reaching out to manufacturers, etc.

 

Items to be covered at the next meeting:

 

4Meeting Minutes (Meeting facilitator)

Unapproved minutes of previous meetings are approved.


 

Meeting Minutes approved at end of each meeting.
5New Tasks (Minutes Taker)The group has reviewed what tasks were assigned during the meeting.
  • Complete
6Next Meeting (Meeting facilitator)The group agrees to the next meeting date and time and possibly a recurring meeting schedule.

 Recurring meeting schedule has been set.

7Adjournment (Meeting facilitator)The meeting is adjourned.Adjourned.