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Why does your community need to talk about cats?

June 24th, 2011

Have you ever attended public hearing on a controversial topic? If you have, you’ll recognize the typical process. First, a person from one side of the issue rises to the microphone to make their argument. Then someone from the other side reciprocates. With each comment, tensions rise; too often the debate denigrates into a shouting match. The end result is that nobody is “listening” at the public “hearing.”

Twenty years ago, such displays of disharmony only took place in face-to-face settings. Now we have to worry about blogs and social media. If you don’t like the stance of a public official on an issue, create your own blog or Facebook page and let the public official have it. Others, hiding behind the veil of anonymity, will quickly jump aboard with their comments. And the fight is on. Every community, large and small, has potentially divisive issues that can explode into these shouting matches. So, what can be done to reduce the chances of their occurrence? There is no simple answer to that question. But Michael Wood-Lewis offers some advice: start a Front Porch Forum and begin talking about lost cats, yard sales, and babysitters.

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I’ve written previously about how Wood-Lewis has created an online tool dedicated to connecting people in local neighborhoods. In a recent post on his blog, Wood-Lewis takes on criticism that his tool, the Front Porch Forum, can’t build “community” because conversations in the forums appear to focus on trivial matters, like a neighbor's lost cat. But Wood-Lewis makes no apologies for conversations of this nature. In fact, he calls them the bedrock for building relationships and increasing people’s sense of ownership of their community. He goes on to offer an example of a rural community with a Front Page Forum where one resident took county officials to task over road conditions. Instead of allowing the topic to denigrate into a shouting match, however, residents jumped on board and turned it into civil discourse. According to Wood-Lewis, there has even been talk about the community banding together for a “work day.” Although I’ve not witnessed the Front Porch Forum in action first-hand, I’m a big fan of its potential. And I think Wood-Lewis is right when he defends the seemingly trivial conversations as the base for more productive, serious discussions. It just might explain why some pretty good community blogs don't inspire more comments on serious topics, and why still other blogs inspire nothing but divisive comments. If you want to grow a stronger sense of community in your community, it's definitely something worth thinking about. Photo credit: CesarOntar - Flickr

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Get outa town, exchange ideas, and build dialogue

June 23rd, 2011

A couple days ago, I caught some good advice on the Ruraltopia blog. In an article titled “Get Outa Town...,” Trent McKnight highlighted his participation in the recent Texas Rural Challenge conference. McKnight explained that he was personally inspired by Bob Dixson, the mayor of Greensburg, KS, which was almost completely wiped out by a F5 tornado in 2007. He also highlighted the great networking opportunities that took place in the conference hallways; people from rural communities throughout Texas shared ideas about their challenges and solutions. It was his conclusion, however, that caught my attention:

If you want to do something great for your hometown, begin the dialogue. Share your challenges on this blog and get outa town to attend a regional forum on rural development. Only when we come together as a community of rural innovators will we be able to address and overcome our challenges and achieve Ruraltopia.” (source: "Get outa town..." Trent McKnight, Ruraltopia, June 20, 2011)

Get outa town, exchange ideas, and bring ‘em back for some dialogue. Good advice for kick-starting the innovation process. Ten years ago, dialogue of this nature had to take place in face-to-face settings, like conferences. With the rise of social media, however, more of this conversation can take place online, thereby breaking the confines of our rural geography.

Be sure to talk locally

In addition to talking online with rural innovators from around the country, I would also encourage everyone to begin the dialogue locally -- within their own community. I’m often reminded of how the process for change began in Miner County. During our community vision meetings, residents sat down in small groups at the kitchen tables of their neighbors, talked about innovative activities in other rural communities, and tried to figure out how these innovative activities applied to our own community. That process of dialogue is key. Not only is there Wisdom in Crowds, but conversation helps build stronger social capital, making it easier to bring about the changes we need in our communities. And we could all stand a little of that.

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The dangers of jumping in too quick

June 17th, 2011

One of the joys of my job is discovering and sharing examples of all the great work being done in communities across Rural America. Wednesday’s post about the newcomer attraction and retention efforts in West Central Minnesota is a prime example. But I have one fear. I’m afraid people will look at the projects and strategies I highlight, like those offered in Wednesday’s post, as an easy solution to their problems – without really studying the issue locally.

The U Process can prevent this

A couple years ago, Joe Bartmann wrote a series of posts describing the U Process. In those posts, Joe describes the tendencies of people to see a problem in their community and then jump immediately into solving it. The U Process, on the other hand, calls on community leaders to really dig into the problem, to do their o

wn research, to listen to the people involved, and to gain different perspectives. Why is the U Process so important? An over-simplified response is that jumping into the solutions too quickly leads to mistakes. We start, stop, backtrack, and restart. In the end, we don’t achieve our desired results faster – and the success rate is typically lower. As I said, that’s an oversimplified response. If you are serious about achieving lasting change in your community, I’d highly recommend going back and reading Joe’s original posts on the subject. It might take up a little of your time, but results will make it worthwhile.

Part 1 -- Introduction to the U Process: a theory of change
Part 2 -- U Process: Those pesky Mental Models
Part 3 -- U Process: Levels of Listening
Part 4 -- U Process: The Big Ah-ha!
Part 5 -- U Process: Enacting Change
Other posts about U Process on Reimagine Rural

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Finding Windom: What a difference a blog can make

May 25th, 2011

Editor's Note: Increasingly, community and economic development officials are turning to blogs as a means of communicating with their constituents. But what happens when a community member takes on that responsibility? That is the situation in Windom, MN where Mari Harries created a blog titled My 2 Cents: Finding Windom. I've been following Mari's writing for around a year now, and I find it inspirational. Not only is Mari sharing her passion for her community, but she's building a dialogue about Windom's future. Last week, I asked Mari some interview questions, and she graciously responded. After reading her comments below, I hope you will check out the blog. Maybe you are a "Mari waiting-to-happen" in your community.

Tell us a little about yourself?

I grew up in Windom, Minnesota, and while I enjoyed growing up in rural Windom, I couldn’t wait to leave after high school graduation with absolutely no intentions to come back. During college I started to realize just how important my family was to me and decided after college to move back to Windom. I dodged a lot of questions from community members about my decision to move back and felt like I didn’t live up to these passive expectations to be successful “out there.” It was a very hard transition after moving back to Windom, but after awhile I got more comfortable with my decision. Now, I live in a beautiful, old house near the downtown square of Windom with my husband and my one-year-old son, Henrik. We enjoy riding our bikes around town, we enjoy the city’s parks, the river and lakes. We just love Windom.

Why did you start to blog about your community and what type of information do you share?

I started the blog because I love two things: writing and Windom. So why not combine the two? Not only do I think Windom is a great place to be, but it has the capability to be so much more. I felt there was so much potential that wasn’t being utilized. So instead of complaining about it, I thought I would try to do something about it. I made a commitment to myself and the community in my first blog post that I would not only do everything that I could to make a difference in my community, but I would track my journey through the blog. Not only would I blog the journey for others to read about and find inspiration from, but the blog would be used to seek assistance, guidance, ideas, resources, or anything that could help me in the journey as well. I started writing about positive things that people might take for granted, like Windom’s history, the beautiful courthouse, the businesses, recreation. I write personal stories about my family, my memories of Windom, my hopes and dreams for Windom and what I’m working on to make it a better place. The blog lead to people getting excited about community revitalization. I would get a lot of emails from community members, former residents, and classmates telling me how they have always loved Windom and felt it needed and deserved some TLC.

What has been the result of the blog?

The blog lead to a handful of people coming together to form Finding Windom, now a non-profit organization dedicated to making the community a better place. Finding Windom has done a lot of great things in the community and is working on a lot of great things right now and for the future too. Since the inception of the blog, I have had the pleasure of meeting a lot of great people. I have had the opportunity to do more writing for other entities as well, such as Minnesota 2020. The exciting thing about Windom and Finding Windom is that the possibilities are endless! And we like to have a little fun making our community a better place to be. It is absolutely amazing all the wonderful support we have had from the community, businesses and even former Windom residents and Windom High School alumni. It has been awesome hearing memories and stories about Windom and hearing all the ideas the community has for Windom as well.

What else have you been up to?

My online efforts have lead to so many offline activities that I’m having a hard time keeping up with my online efforts now—a good problem to have! Since the inception of Finding Windomwe have:

Started a support local campaign titled, The Little City That Would, which is going strong. The Windom Economic Development Authority has adopted our support local campaign efforts as their own marketing tool.
Working with the city council to do community outreach in order for the city council to organize strategic planning and goals for the city.
Started a community portal website (coming summer 2011), findingwindom.com, which links all aspects of the city, along with a community online calendar, community Facebook pages, while encouraging other city/community entities to update websites to look unified and user friendly.
Worked with local businesses to guide them as far as marketing and consumer happiness, as well as encouraging local businesses to utilize the internet by stressing that if you are not online these days you do not exist to a huge population of people.
Our latest and most fun endeavor was reaching out to our youth by hosting a Community Pride Day on the last day of school to show our students how to get involved in the community by picking up trash around town and visiting with local businesses and organizations to get an idea of all the great things the community has to offer. On this day, our landscaping students helped build a pocket park on our downtown square!

I am so proud to be from Windom, Minnesota! I can’t wait to see what is next for this little city that would.

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The movie, as I'm sure you remember, involves a young girl named Dorothy who dreams she has landed in the Land of Oz, far from her Kansas home. She travels down a yellow brick road to Emerald City after she is advised by the good witch of the east that the Wizard of Oz can return her to her home. She meets all kinds of characters along the way, while trying to avoid the wicked witch of the west.

Dorothy meets three characters as she travels down the yellow brick road-the scarecrow, tin man, and lion are on their way to visit the Wizard of Oz as well. They are each seeking something they lack: the scarecrow needs a brain, the tin man a heart, and the lion needs courage.

What does this have to do with reimagining rural?

I have never analyzed the Wizard of Oz story line as a metaphor, but as I've thought about it lately, I think it shares an important lesson about leadership. Our rural communities need leaders who have wisdom, heart and courage. What's best is, like the characters in the film, we have leaders who already possess these traits-it's just a matter of discovering and nurturing them.

I think it's also provides an easy way we can look at team or committee building in our small towns. For your next community project, look specifically for three (or more) people who have the wisdom, heart and courage it will take to get your particular project accomplished. And, I would bet that if we look at previous successful projects, we'll find that those three characteristics were all a part of making things happen.

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The article highlights the Worthington Integrative Community Leadership Program, which was organized by University of Minnesota Extension's Center for Community Vitality. The program's intent is to build broad based leadership. Worthington, MN, for those who don't know, is a rural community with a large Hispanic population. As program facilitator Toby Spanier states in the article:

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Social networks (like Facebook) work well when trying to create word of mouth campaigns.

Blogs are the best tools for dealing with complex issues.

Community building tools (like Ning) should be used when you are focused on listening to each other rather than listening to you. (p. 80-81)

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Although I think they over-emphasized the value of Twitter by placing it in all four categories, I like the categories because they point out the usefulness of each tool. Community Builders help create communities; Content Creators enable individuals to develop content; Distribution channels help share content; and Linking tools make it easier to pass along web links.

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Other resources to consider:

"The main types of social media" at Open to Media

"How many social media tools should I use" at IEG Marketing

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