Links and General Info:
Chanakya is going to take the lead and reach out to Mary Marete to set up an appointment for the team.
As Khanjan mentioned, here's a link to Seth Godin’s blog. There's plenty of good stuff in here so take some time to poke around. We discussed this blog when the concept of story telling came up. Here's the link to Seth's piece on How to Tell a Great Story.
Another key point that came up was that of "checking in" or "attendance" in exchange for points. Rather than have the NGO, for example, be required to send out hundreds of individual texts to award points for attendance, we discussed the idea of a code that would be available for users to text (essentially crowdsourcing the point system to the individuals themselves). I mentioned foursquare in class, so here's a pretty good roundup of the "virtual badges" users can earn by checking themselves in much like we may award "virtual points" for texting in the attendance code.
Also, the WishVast Twitter feed is now up and running. I will make the password information available to the team shortly. In less than 10 minutes with a bit of creativity, we were able to gain several followers from Nairobi, Penn State, and elsewhere so I look forward to using this tool more efficiently for marketing purposes in the future.
Specific Goals and Steps Moving Forward:
Before CDR:
Tech Team:
1 – Frontline SMS
2 – How is SMS via yahoo and other websites sustainable? How does it make money?
3 – Simple test of Frontline. Will the Java work in Kenya?
Kaylyn to bring the website up to speed before CDR
We’ll also need a block diagram of the technology for the CDR
Marketing Team: scenarios (Ad Hoc, Farmers) need to be visually represented on slides for CDR.
The revised semester plan will be sent back to Mike so we can add some more details and clean it up.
After CDR:
Marketing Team to begin video creation to illustrate scenarios. Videos for:
1) AD Hoc
2) Farmers
During CDR
We decided on the following order of events:
P1
P2
Big Picture
WishVast
S1
S2
Business Plan/$
Technology (to include block diagram)
Demo
Additional Notes: Include section of assessment. This should coincide with the work Chanakya has done to champion IRB efforts
Fundraising/Competitions
Chanakya & Chris to coordinate on Pepsi Refresh Challenge. We will also explore Dell Social Innovation and look for others. Everyone please keep yours eyes open for additional contests/opportunities.
Adam to proceed with the Entrepreneurship in Africa conference at Syracuse University
Others will attend, travel arrangements will be coordinated – 4/1 – 4/3. Actual Conference is Friday April 2nd.
Mike/Christian – Poster competition
Khanjan – to forward poster from last year along to team
English 202C
Their next assignment is a formal report on how WishVast can be used
Core team needs to pitch the ENG 202 class to give them more insight into our direction, and also to refine our concept pitch.
U.S. Testing
Goal: 3 minute pitches for each applicable testing scenario
Khanjan to set meeting for the end of CDR week (thurs/fri) with a professor so we will have to move quickly on pitch refinement starting immediately after CDR.
Chanakya is going to take the lead and reach out to Mary Marete to set up an appointment for the team.
As Khanjan mentioned, here's a link to Seth Godin’s blog. There's plenty of good stuff in here so take some time to poke around. We discussed this blog when the concept of story telling came up. Here's the link to Seth's piece on How to Tell a Great Story.
Another key point that came up was that of "checking in" or "attendance" in exchange for points. Rather than have the NGO, for example, be required to send out hundreds of individual texts to award points for attendance, we discussed the idea of a code that would be available for users to text (essentially crowdsourcing the point system to the individuals themselves). I mentioned foursquare in class, so here's a pretty good roundup of the "virtual badges" users can earn by checking themselves in much like we may award "virtual points" for texting in the attendance code.
Also, the WishVast Twitter feed is now up and running. I will make the password information available to the team shortly. In less than 10 minutes with a bit of creativity, we were able to gain several followers from Nairobi, Penn State, and elsewhere so I look forward to using this tool more efficiently for marketing purposes in the future.
Specific Goals and Steps Moving Forward:
Before CDR:
Tech Team:
1 – Frontline SMS
2 – How is SMS via yahoo and other websites sustainable? How does it make money?
3 – Simple test of Frontline. Will the Java work in Kenya?
Kaylyn to bring the website up to speed before CDR
We’ll also need a block diagram of the technology for the CDR
Marketing Team: scenarios (Ad Hoc, Farmers) need to be visually represented on slides for CDR.
The revised semester plan will be sent back to Mike so we can add some more details and clean it up.
After CDR:
Marketing Team to begin video creation to illustrate scenarios. Videos for:
1) AD Hoc
2) Farmers
During CDR
We decided on the following order of events:
P1
P2
Big Picture
WishVast
S1
S2
Business Plan/$
Technology (to include block diagram)
Demo
Additional Notes: Include section of assessment. This should coincide with the work Chanakya has done to champion IRB efforts
Fundraising/Competitions
Chanakya & Chris to coordinate on Pepsi Refresh Challenge. We will also explore Dell Social Innovation and look for others. Everyone please keep yours eyes open for additional contests/opportunities.
Adam to proceed with the Entrepreneurship in Africa conference at Syracuse University
Others will attend, travel arrangements will be coordinated – 4/1 – 4/3. Actual Conference is Friday April 2nd.
Mike/Christian – Poster competition
Khanjan – to forward poster from last year along to team
English 202C
Their next assignment is a formal report on how WishVast can be used
Core team needs to pitch the ENG 202 class to give them more insight into our direction, and also to refine our concept pitch.
U.S. Testing
Goal: 3 minute pitches for each applicable testing scenario
Khanjan to set meeting for the end of CDR week (thurs/fri) with a professor so we will have to move quickly on pitch refinement starting immediately after CDR.