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Engage the Community

Expand Goal 2 of the library's strategic plan: "Engage the Community"

Project Impact(s): Technology Enablement

This project is in Archive Phase.

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Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

 

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: Rochester Public Library

Contact: Susan Hansen ; Email: susan@rochester.lib.mn.us ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: OpenBeam ; Rochester Public Library

Potential Collaborators: Community Networking Group (CNG) ; Rochester Adult and Familty Literacy ; Rochester Area Family Y

Related Projects

Impacts 

Major Impact: 

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Technology Enablement

Level 2:

DMC Impacts:

Education/Learning Environment

Community Health Impacts:

Mental Health, Obesity, Financial Stress/Homelessness, Diabetes, Vaccine Preventable Diseases

Type of Project

Programming, Tooling  

 

 

Detailed Description

Project Ideas include:

1. Expand Goal 2 of the library's strategic plan: "Engage the Community"
2. Interested in ways to reduce the time organizations spend developing/keeping paper/computer files to local organization information (developing a better infrastructure for I &R)
3. Find a way to have a community "health" calendar where organizations can easily input what 'activities' for health they have (for example, during National Diabetes Month, where are nutrition classes? Free testing? Free exercise sessions?)

Work Product

Community Network Website

 

Strategy
Unknown

 

 

 

Metrics
Unknown

 

 

Last modified by support on 2021/09/05
Created by on 2014/04/11

 

 

 

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Project Phase Definitions
The following defines the various project phases:
  1. Available - a product, program or service is in production
  2. Develop - program or application is being developed
  3. Plan - idea is solid, stakeholders are identified, and there is strong commitment to go forward from all parties.
  4. Concept Phase - idea scoped out with enough details to give an early sizing and/or to build a proof of concept
    demonstration
  5. Pre-concept Phase - an early idea or a requirement.
About Beam

Community Beam (dmcbeam.org) is a registry of private and public resources (organizations, projects, initiatives, programs) that underpin economic and social developments of greater Rochester:

  • For the commercial sector, we tend to register startup activities (new companies and new commercial projects) that bring diversification and high-impact opportunities to the area.
  • For the non-profit sector, we wish to shine light on all the organizations and services that otherwise labor under relative obscurity.
  • Our hope is that dmcbeam.org will encourage cross-sector collaborations and creative solutions.

While there are a number of registries in the community, dmcbeam.org's  distinct value is to pilot a database with a data structure and categorizations that answer the questions such as: What organizations or projects/programs in our community that have purported relevance with some of the over-arching focuses put forward by initiatives such as DMC, J2G and Health Improvements?

This database could be used as one of the ways to explore the capacities of the community. If you are someone on an exploratory journey to learn about the greater Rochester community. dmcbeam.org could be an interesting first step.

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