movin' and groovin'

hello all on this fine march morning! hope all is well in your various worlds!

I am going to meet with Beaker's friend and see what is up in her world and see what she knows about publishing the kind of information we have to share. I will get back to you on that. The class that I had hoped would have some good information for us about business structure was not so great so I grabbed the booklet and ditched. I had received the exact same info in the mail from the state!!!! ugh. I did talk with one of the awesome Grand Marias leaders who was very excited to hear about our plans and she said that UMD has the NE MN Business Development office that she thinks we should contact. I am going to UMD several times at the end of the week so I will check that out. They apparently help plan your business. That could be an exciting development!

We have a number of people taking on new roles this spring and I feel it will be important to continue to communicate as much as possible with each other as iterTWINE takes baby steps forward! As you will all find, most work settings do not use the cumbersome consensus-building style that we have had at camp in the past. Unless there are objections, I propose we continue to use participatory decision-making. This blog is one part of that, some meetings and electronic gatherings will be another, and paper copies back and forth will play their part too. I hope everyone will weigh in on this so our expectations about communication and process are in sync.

Midstates is just ahead and so far I have heard from Tiko, Lorac, Puckoroo, Sport, em(cee) and Babs about their plans. We will reserve rooms this week, so let me know what you are planning to do. It has been suggested that we stay at Lorac's as part of the weekend, to save money. Those of us going can decide on the number of nights as this week flies along! Midstates is always such a good place for working together and brainstorming...it will be exciting!