{"id":1890,"date":"2007-01-18T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2007-01-18T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T12:36:00","slug":"organzational-speed-dating-as-i-originally-envisioned-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1890","title":{"rendered":"Organzational speed dating as I originally envisioned it."},"content":{"rendered":"

During my time as the first-among-equals (not really first by my choice, but more by consensus) co-officer of QGPA, we put on something that I called organizational speed dating (which wisely renamed the event “Building Bridges”). Basically, my original idea was to let a bunch of minneapolis queer orgs get up on stage and talk about their organization for a bit. Mostly so people could find out about interesting opportunities, but partly as a showcase for intra-community diversity. This turned into something resembling speed dating (hence my name for it) where we had people pick a table with one or two orgs (generally thematically related when more than one shared a table) sitting at it, and talk about it. And then they switched and went to second one after 15-30 minutes (I can’t remember any more, it’s been awhile) It went pretty well. I was surprised by the popularity of the religious orgs, but just goes to show how selective my own view of the world is.<\/p>\n

Last night, I saw my original idea brought to life in a very different way. It’s the environmentalist happy hour (green drinks) for chicago. There are many similar regular events around the world and across the country, though I don’t know about the formats for the other groups. (check out http:\/\/www.greendrinks.org\/) And 27 orgs came up and gave us their spiel in “2 minutes”. Some went maybe 90 seconds, some overstayed their welcome to 4 minutes, waxing passionate about the importance of organic farms, and how they really can be economically viable, and how this one person saved their family farm, to the disinterest of 90+% of the audience. The minority actually gave significant ways to get involved. All or nearly all, provided websites so people could find out more.<\/p>\n

Seeing it put into practice helped me appreciate the flaws and advantages of the approach. Obviously different from the route we took. I would say the choice depends on your purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During my time as the first-among-equals (not really first by my choice, but more by consensus) co-officer of QGPA, we put on something that I called organizational speed dating (which wisely renamed the event “Building Bridges”). Basically, my original idea was to let a bunch of minneapolis queer orgs get up on stage and talk … Continue reading “Organzational speed dating as I originally envisioned it.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}