2024-09-04 Outreach & Engagement notes

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Add the Outreach and Engagement Working Group meetings to your calendar

• James Griffin - regrets

• Karen Cariani

• Molly Reed

• Alicia Morris (Deactivated) - regrets

• Heather Greer Klein

• Chris Awre

• Your name here!

• Architecture for Samvera websites

  • Identifying priorities for James:

    • Samvera.org issues

    • Hyku subdomain issues - only one listed; can we review hyku.samvera.org and check for others?

• Regional meetings

  • Any additional outreach and engagement ideas?

    • Midwest registration deadline is passed but can add others late - 33 attendees out of limit of 40!

    • Regional archives/SAA groups? Midatlantic archive group

• Upcoming press releases/blog posts

  • Hyku site press release - volunteers for a draft?

  • Molly’s making the case documents - volunteers for a draft? - Molly will move on with version 2

• Samvera style guide

  • This will make it easier for multiple people to write consistently, for future website styling, and for presentations

  • Website version is something James could work on

  • Style guide worksheet

  • Can do a cheat-sheet version for branding/logos/colors/fonts/special words/boilerplate

  • Examples/resources: https://gettingattention.org/nonprofit-style-guide/, https://www.elevationweb.org/blog/nonprofit-brand-style-guide/, https://medium.com/digital-fundraising-for-nonprofits/nonprofit-branding-8-examples-of-nonprofit-brand-books-style-guides-df136fbf4f90

  • https://libguides.palni.edu/communication_manual

  • Can default to AP style for things that are not Samvera specific - look at the subscription cost

  • Can include accessibility standards as part of the brand guide

• Reviewing the monthly newsletter

  • How can this be improved? What should be the release date going forward?

  • Current example

  • Fedora example (using Constant Contact)

  • IIIF communication channels example

  • Still feel like text is the way to go, at least for now

  • Set for the 15th of each month (or closest business day to the 15th)

• Samvera repository tour

  • updates to existing content

  • call for additional items

• Northeast Institutional Repository Day

• Communications planning for September-January

• Other discussion items/open discussion time

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