Measuring and Sustaining Participatory Politics Success webinar and twitter chat
Drawing from themes that emerged from the first webinar, the MAPP team created a list of follow-up questions to be discussed in a corresponding twitter chat the following week on February 12. Led by Jon Barilone from the Connected Learning Alliance, with support from MAPP team members Alexandra Margolin, Raffi Sarkissian, Diana Lee, and Ritesh Mehta, participants used #ByAnyMedia to discuss questions such as:
- How do you move beyond numbers to measure civics success? What metrics do *you* use?
- How do you show that minor/singular successes (campaign, events, etc.) are part of a larger success story?
- When measuring success how do you balance what you DID versus what EFFECT you had?
- How can entertainment fandom serve as a catalyst to become active in civic politics?
- Lack of technical knowledge can be an involvement barrier. How do you make specialized info accessible?
- Knowing your community's history can give you power/language to act. How do you use history in your work?
- How do you keep up morale after setbacks or failures?
- When a campaign like #NotInHarrysName can take 4 years, how do you decide when a campaign ends?
- Civics/social justice work is never done. After achieving your goal(s), how do you start setting new ones?
