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**The mission of the Bowling Alone, Ohio Steering Committee is to inspire and empower its diverse community members to [OKAY TO DELETE?succeed in today's technological world by integrating social networks and] develop and leverage social capital to improve their community...** *
 * Outcomes (audacious goals - goals that are very difficult to achieve from where we are today)

(Short term wins) ||  || Measurable objectives (Quantifiable through assessments) Start with Baseline assessment or pre-test and follow with intermittent tests (post-tests) to measure progress ||  || Strategies for establishing urgency ||   ||
 * Bowling Alone, Ohio residents will** ||  || Objectives
 * 1) Foster social relationships with community members through the use of social media technologies. ||  || Host classes on how to use social media technologies to create spontaneous social gatherings (low cost) activities within the community.

Promote, host, and publicize a social media enabled gathering. ||  || Number of person to person gatherings enabled by social-media.

Survey the town to determine whether the spontaneous gatherings improved the community. ||  || { this needs work } Give presentations on the importance of social media / on efficiency and lowering transaction costs associated with community activities - tie this back to the critical importance of social capital to specific areas (industrial, education, social, health)
 * Use of facilitation process to enable community leaders (1st and 2nd tier) to identify outstanding issues.
 * Following an analysis of the gathered information, give presentations to community organizations about the critical importance of social capital. ||
 * 2) Contribute to society as a whole through community service learning projects.
 * Students use their personal learning networks to connect with other "like minded" learners to learn by doing something with others.
 * Students facilitate their own learning, in an area about which hey are passionate--by connecting what they learn through online content, and the classroom, with the real world.
 * This would include volunteering with local organizations and producing something. || Connect students with their passion.

Teach students how to locate learning resources (online or face-to-face) that will help them engage in learning about what they like or are interested.

Use Facebook or other social media technology that students are already engaged within to connect them to opportunities to practice what they are passionate about. ||  || Number of student volunteer hours that were self initiated by the student and their engagement in their individual learning community ||   || Give presentation on the importance of personal learning networks for connecting learners to their interests and providing them with opportunities to connect to learn - how these networks can provide opportunity for individual learners.

Provide use of social networking technology workshops for parents. Sell it to the parents' need to know what their children are doing online. Utilize the workshops to not only teach the parents where their children are online but also how they can utilize it to communicate within their like-interest groups. ||  || Create opportunities for professional engagement of community members with similar professional interests. ||  || Baseline measures and intermittent measures of: Type in the content of your new page here.
 * 3) Foster professional realtionships among community members through the use of topical roundtables, brown bag lunch lectures, and coffee/tea discussion socials*
 * Gain commitments from employers to provide at least 1 hour per month of release time for such professional development and networking
 * Recommend that receptive employers include participation in this type of social-capital intensive professional development in the performance plans of employees || Organize community members according to their professions
 * Workforce efficiency prior to as well as at a predetermined future time to determine if there is a measurable difference.
 * Survey the opinions of participants.
 * Survey the opinions of employers. || Discussing the concrete benefits of social capital to the workplace, using the analogy of grease on gears:
 * Social capital is more effective and efficient for getting things done as opposed to focussing solely on legalistic and procedural requirements.
 * Social capital helps build a happier workforce
 * Happy and well-connected employees are healthier employees.
 * Absenteeism will decline.
 * Productivity will increase ||
 * 4) Create neighborhood associations to:
 * Host block parties
 * Do group cleanups of common areas and assist the elderly (e.g. raking leaves in the fall)
 * Watch out for suspicious activities in the neighborhood
 * Do emergency preparedness trainings (e.g. CERT, CPR, first aid) || Provide a small amount of money for some refreshments, perhaps in conjunction with a popular television or sporting event ||  || Do a neighborhood cohesion baseline survey (e.g. How many of your neighbors do you know? Have you ever had a home or auto break-in? T/F People in this neighborhood look out for each other) and follow up with intermittent measures. ||   || Put flyers on doors in the neigborhood where crime or vandalism has occurred ||   ||
 * 5. Foster adult team sporting events (e.g. Bowling Leagues, soccer, and/or softball) ||  || Provide free field or rec center space and T-shirts for team founders ||   || Do a health and athleticism baseline survey followed with intermittent measures ||   || Partner with health insurance companies, recreation facilities, and life insurance companies to publicize importance of physical activity and social capital. ||   ||
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