Homestead on-line real time meeting instructions for Jan.25 at 5:00 p.m.

[Deborah Groban Olson <dgo@esoplaw.com>]

Dear Homesteaders: 

To participate in the Tuesday, January 25, 2000 5:00 PM New York Time
meeting of the
HOMESTEAD Discussion Group:
1. Connect to the internet with a browser like netscape or
   internet explorer.
2. Go to: http://cog.kent.edu/chat
3. Select "Homestead"
4. Wait. If you have a slow connection, this may be a long
   wait. With a quick connection it can be 10 to 20 seconds.
5. A box will appear with the options to write your nickname,
   username, email. You ONLY need to write a nickname. Anything
   you want.
6. Select "CONNECT"
7. A chat window will open with a line at the bottom where you
   can write your messages. In the window above, you will see
   what you and others have written. On the right side, there
   will be a list of all the others who are connected to the
   chat.
8. Write your message and hit enter. It will appear in the chat.
9. Sometimes you may get bounced off. If so, simply repeat
   steps 2 to 6 again.

Good luck!

Following is the proposed agenda reprinted from a recent email to all of you.

Regarding the agenda, I am open to your suggestions. I would like to see
us cover the following: 

        1) An explanation from Bob Stumberg of his critique of SQPQ and how he
would change SQPQ to be useful.
        
        2) Proposals of a structured agenda to review the policy ideas each of 
us
favors. I don't propose that  we review all the proposals during this
meeting. Rather, that we come up with a system for reviewing ideas using a
strategic planning format. I would like us to aim for a productive meeting
in Chicago in April. The outcome of that meeting would be a research and
development agenda for COG on new policy ideas. The strategic planning
format includes initial brainstorming (which we are doing in a rather
random way now in the discussion group). The brainstorming is followed by
looking at the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats posed by
each idea. The purpose of this process is to provide the COG Executive
Committee, staff and participants with our view on ideas and projects we
think COG should pursue via research and experimentation. Individuals
proposing specific ideas would be the best equipped to lead the session(s)
on his/ her ideas. 

3) Briefly list the variety of ideas we are considering so far,
particularly any I missed in my summary of the Homestead discussions so far.

4) Discuss means of increasing participation in the Homestead discussion.

5) Other

Deb Olson
Homestead Moderator
http://cog.kent.edu



Deborah Groban Olson
Project Co-ordinator
Capital Ownership Group Project
Ohio Employee Ownership Center
Kent State University
c/o Shared Equity Strategies, Inc.
3163 Penobscot Building 
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 331-7821 or (313) 964-2460
(f) (313) 331-2567
email: dgo@esoplaw.com
web site: http://cog.kent.edu