Group discussion & Good ideas from discussions

 

Watershed:  Go to a GPS site and receive a text / video message about that site - Put an item into the river, track its progress via cellphone coordinates, photos, website - find it, record and send it along - Paddle to the Sea (Native American send from snowpack to ocean)

 

Cellphone:  Day on the Lake - have everyone take a cellphone photo of the shoreline on that same day - make a composite on Flickr / Geomashup / virtual 'Hands around the Lake'

 

Sticky Notes on Google maps that have data points (video, photos, info) in the watershed

 

People are only going to care about the Lake if they have a personal connection - Signage to identify those households/neighborhoods/communities that have taken steps to help the lake / commitment to caring for the Lake - Map with different colored dots to ID the efforts being made (in ECHO)

 

Low tech offering (to include all):  How to bring the various groups to ECHO (school kids, Moms & Dads, Seniors, teens, young adults) through the use of technology AND make it their personal connection to the Lake?

 

This may include different ways / different levels / different kinds of technology to reach all and provide for both an onsite and at-home experience.

 

Multi-layer = different groupings or different technologies or different learning styles?  Not only the beautiful sunsets, but record the change.

 

Cellphone connection to the Lake:  Audio only, photo & audio, video & audio, GPS coordinates, etc.

 

How do you promote (associate value with effort)?  Places for them to see their efforts and thus share with others to start the discussion about stewardship of the Lake - Is a person's 12 seconds of fame the initial value that then is transferred to the bigger picture of how they are helping make things better (we can't individually fix climate change, but we can do this)

 

Danger to too much technology and it replacing the need to think, how to use the data, analyze, interpret, and therefore act - just an inventory is not a solution nor a cause - Use the observations to educate, possible cures, and then solicit their help in getting things done

 

Technology can do two things (both for Voices to consider):  Share data and get people involved in the Lake (teaching moments) - Also provide quantative analysis opportunities to inspire the public to get involved in policy changes and improvements

 

Get the eyeballs and then draw them in (LCMM boat building project) - Who do you want to reach and how do you want them to respond to your efforts?

 

Don't reinvent the wheel, but choose the best approach, make it accessible & workable, focus on the media, not the message

 

Draw in other groups:  curriculum writers, researchers, sport fishing, powerboaters, second homeowners, marina owners, etc. - Groups that are providing environmental information, but are just off from the Lake advocacy groupings (National Gardening for example)

 

Create the opportunity to be an advocate for the Lake and allow them to then influence public policy & budgetting

 

Virtual World visualization of the choices we all make - Use P in fertilizer, how did that affect the Lake? - Make it personal to each

 

FPF - Using technology to fill a need - How to connect the Lake's needs with the public's needs through technology?

 

ECO-guilt:  What can we do to empower people to relieve the guilt from their consumerism choices?

 

Expand the experience; sharing their stories; personally invested in the watershed; be heard, be a part of the community, be a part of the solution

 

Cellphone share instant excitement; creates personal connections both through the sender and the recipients

 

Disappointment over the state not getting a cleaner Lake by 2009

 

Better awareness of Lake stewards so more will join, become involved, affect public policy, need for a central place for people to learn how to get involved, regardless of where they are located (Watershed neighborhoods?)

 

How do we drive people to the existing information so they are better informed and better able to affect their own lives and affect the activities of their neighborhood, community, state, nation?

 

Is the focus too narrow because of a lack of funding?  Would the message be more broadly available and perceived if we had more funding?

 

Mapping of all organizations:  Who is doing what?  Are there gaps?  Where does ECHO fit into this scheme?  Educational versus Advocacy?  Can ECHO affect public policy?

 

Got to think like someone who does not care - Make them an extinct species - Stop preaching to the choir - Find out what they do care about and link it to the Lake - Connecting to them in other ways - Drawing them into ECHO with something and then offer the stewardship message

 

Share the use of the Lake as reservoir (follow the water back from the Lake to the tap) - Water Districts offer some help/stats on what happens - Hard to sell as people's water is good, plentiful, lake looks nice & blue

 

Crunching the numbers on ECHO attendance - small percentage of visitors care - even smaller actually do

 

Super Lake branding of the Lake - Are we building a Lake brand as opposed to an ECHO brand?  Should it be perfect / absolutely healthy / Is that what it's supposed to be? - May be very useful, but Voices is about letting all the voices come forward - be careful as you proceed and have it be a collective branding

 

Have a competition about the branding of the Lake through uploaded video among the younger technology users

 

Is Quad branding and what about the $ Quebec is putting forward to make that ceremony important and eventful?

 

Propose the use of cellphones & stewardship to the high schoolers - Listen to how they would use technology to affect personal change

 

Share Voices effort with boatshow participants (other events?) - Share with ECHO interns and ETeam

 

Is targeting science teachers hitting the wrong education audience?  Social Studies, Humanities, Art, Debate, Photo

 

What are you doing to help the Lake? Video booth (Cellphone makes it portable)

 

Virtual door that leads to a physical door - How to inspire people to change & then get them into ECHO?

 

The transition in the museum industry from fearing the web will replace a physical visit to the web inspiring that visit

 

Virtual chum?  The web develops interest in what things appear like in reality

 

Outside-In approach to inspiring people

 

Voices is a resource for collaborative discussion about the stewardship of the Lake

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