August 21, 2020

sunset & flowersDate: August 21, 2020

Time: 1:30pm MST, 3:30pm CDT

Location: via Zoom 

Meeting Type: Regular Meeting

How Called: Standing meeting

Convened: 3:40

Attendees: Barry, Maryanna, Katherine

1 Minutes

Approval of July minutes

2 Information Sharing

  1. Website Migration – published as blog entry https://www.pbdd.org/migrating-wordpress-site/
  2. August partner newsletter https://www.pbdd.org/august-2020-newsletter/ 
  3. Net Inclusion Webinar planning does not include having actual dates.
  4. Web page updates: New pages: NDIA criteria, Hotspot; Updates: COVID page, low cost access options. To discuss: COVID page, duplicating state/city stuff, other things that should be included? How some agencies have adapted to COVID-19? TGH
    1. https://www.pbdd.org/criteria-for-being-on-ndia-resources-page/
    2. https://www.pbdd.org/hotspot-limitations/
  5. Getting a message out via Google Ad Grants- AFTRR,  PBDD – Barry did an ad pointing to AFTRR. 
  6. Radio interview, Sunday morning of Thanksgiving weekend
  7. AFTRR steering committee nominations – none to give
  8. Updating Partner info — I’d like us all to read through revised ones each month, make suggestions, then we can contact the organizations to run it past them.

3 Action Item Status Updates

Walking through Action Item List and noting updates. In the minutes, this will record items closed during meeting. 

  1. Closed 8/20/20 Opened 5/22/20: Split out the research information from the Digital Inclusion Services page, and find a better location for it. Maybe Digital Inclusion Services page isn’t needed, since we have low cost access page? There is a section under Public Policy Initiatives describing Research Studies. Will move appropriate information to https://pbdd.org/research/
  2. Closed 8/20/20 — Opened 5/22/20: Remove partner descriptions from the table view – Barry.
  3. Closed: 7/31/20 Opened 7/24/20: Look at redirect from http –> https for website. Katherine
  4. Closed – 8/12/20 – Opened 7/24/20: Newsletter soonish — Katherine & Barry published 8/12/20.

4 Time and Location for Next Meeting

Next meeting –October 9, 12:30pm MST, 3:30p Eastern  via  Zoom

5 Adjourn

Adjourned: 4:35

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