Thinking Outside the Box Canyon: Press

Here is the local press coverage for the Thinking Outside the Box Canyon event that I could find.  If there is anything else out there, please let me know.

• Joan May Daily Planet letter March 11, 2008
• Post-Event article in Daily Planet March 18, 2008
• Post-Event article #2 in Daily Planet March 18, 2008
• Joan May Telluride Watch commentary March 24, 2008
• Plum TV article March 24, 2008

One of the common themes that runs through these articles is the enthusiasm of the participants for continuing the conversations begun at the Box Canyon event.  It is that desire to continue that is the genesis for the RSVP effort.

If you attended the Box Canyon event, feel free to add your comments on what you thought were the most important things you experienced.

UPDATE:  Joan May pointed out one additional article I had overlooked:

• Post-Event article in the Telluride Watch March 18, 2008

Posted by Dave in Documentation, Press

Thinking Outside the Box Canyon: Presentations

The creation of the RSVP was based on an event was held at the Mt Village Conference Center called "Thinking Outside the Box Canyon" on March 17, 2007.  The event was fairly well-documented: 

• A video of the presentation is available at Telluride WebTV.

Copies of the Powerpoint presentations made by both Jonathan Schechter of the Charture Institute in Jackson Hole and Dave Riley, CEO of Telluride Ski and Golf are also available in pdf format (needs Adobe Reader).

• Jonathan's presentation is available in either full page format or in 3 slides/page format. 
• Dave's presentation is available in either full page format or in 4 slides/page format.

Also, Jonathan Schechter's presentation to CAST (Colorado Association of Ski Towns) is on the Mt Village Town website.  This presentation is roughly the same information as the presentation to the Box Canyon event.

A news coverage summary for the event will be in a separate post. There will be more discussion about the event later, but this post is just to make the information available.

Posted by Dave in Documentation, Research

Strategic Planning: Basic Resources

One of the major theoretical sources for the design of the RSVP process is large body of knowledge known as Strategic Management or Strategic Planning, among other related names.  It is a fairly well established set of conceptual tools used to provide a guide in how to proceed as an organization.  Strategic Planning provides a framework for an organization to answer three basic questions:  Where are we now?  Where do we want to go? How do we get there?

There will be some more detailed discussions of this subject later, but for now I just want to make some general information available for anyone who is interested.  I found one site in particular, the Free Management Library, that provides an excellent set of basic articles on Strategic Planning.

The Library appears to be a minimally-managed wiki-type set-up, allowing users to add articles, so there is not any sort of peer or jury review of the information, but at the very least, it echos most of what I have learned about the subject and provides a lot of recommendations for other resources.  And it's certainly a better resource than the Wikipedia entry for Strategic Planning.

Posted by Dave in Research

Guest Book

Hello everyone!

If you're stopping by for the first time, please feel free to leave your name in the comments for this thread.  Maybe tell everyone a little about yourself.  This is a conversation, so maybe it's good to get to know who is talking...

So let me introduce myself first:  I'm Dave Johnson and I have been retained by The New Community Coalition as project coordinator for the Regional Sustainability Visioning Project.  Those who have been around the Telluride area for more than a few years would know me from my work with Telluride's affordable housing program as both Executive Director of Telluride Housing Authority and as a Telluride Town Council member.  My job is to take care of the planning, communication and research coordination that is required for this project.  Generally, you won't hear much opinion out of me in this capacity, though I will occasionally jump in to a conversation where my expertise is useful.

TNCC has also retained Nigel Strafford to facilitate the various focus group meetings that will be held throughout the 2008-09 ski season.  I'll let him introduce himself separately.

We will be using this blog both as a conversation tool for the community and a place where we can post information that is relevant to the RSVP process.  I'll talk about that more in another post.

Welcome to the conversation...

Posted by Dave in Site Notes