Partnering with Power of Hope

December 6th, 2007 at 12:41pm Toby Campbell Permalink

I talked to Michael at Power of Hope today, and they are very interested in partnering with us! Michael brought up a lot of good questions about safeguards against predators and youth contact information protection. These are profiled in the post about safeguards below.

He has emailed Jennifer Parker, an old time friend of his at the Y, for more information. I’ve sent him Chris Tugwell’s contact information so he can get on our list for March 15th content posting testers. He and I talked about the idea of doing some curriculum bits on how youth can protect themselves on the internet. I told him I’d file that idea with the group.

The Power of Hope website (designed by Sam too) will be going up in April, so he said that the timeline could work really well for partnering on this front.

Also, to summarize our lengthy email exchange that resulted from my contact with Michael, it sounds liek we’ve decided to have a small group of internal testers (at the Y, for example) work with the February 15th test site, and then we’ll open up testing to partners like Artworks and Power of Hope for the March 15th test launch. It sounds like starting a mailing list for testing partners with a pugetsoundoff-specific email address is an idea that everyone is on board with. It also sounds like MacArthur experts can weigh in on the website after the March 15th test launch, but that they may be presented with some wireframes and site explanation before that test launch.

I’ll leave contact with these partners in Chris Tugwell’s hands after
the end of the quarter so that he can get in touch with test partners
with Sam’s instructions and information.

We’re really moving forward with this! It’s exciting to have some enthusiastic partners on board.

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