ToP Toolkit Team

Charter:

To further develop the ToP Network Tool Kit and ensure that the Tool Kit is relevant and useful for ToP Network members.

Vision Elements Addressed:  

• Effective external marketing
• A diverse, growing and well-informed membership
• A vibrant forum for professional development and learning of our members

Focus of Activity for 2016

As inspired by our consensus workshop at 2016 ToP Network Annual Gathering:

1. user accessibility; quick discovery
2. expanding content
3. admin & maintenance

New Messages that Apply to Us:

• ToP plays well/nice with others
• Being relevant in our times is good for business
• We are a learning community

Success Indicators for 2016

User Accessibility: increased site clicks (need baseline)
Expanding Content: more content (at least 12 new uploads per year)
Admin & Maintenance:  retain new members of toolkit team; increased site clicks

Behaviors to Develop:

• Open to prototyping
• More demonstration of results and more robust way of demonstrating as a community the impact of our methods
• Embrace technology
• More partnerships with other participatory practices
• Space for nuanced methods as they exist
• More ToP design included – other methods & tools
• To exchange: knowledge and wisdom
• Experimentation – got us here

ToP Toolkit Team 2016 Calendar

Quarter 1

Quarter 2

Quarter 3

Quarter 4

• On-board 2 new team members
• Reassess resource directory organization and functionality
• Upload new contributions

• Collect baseline data re: clicks and content
• Develop plan for reorganizing resource directory
• Collect metadata

• Reorganize resource directory
• Push for new content
• Publicize master list of content
• Research functionality of Memberclicks for searchability or outside sites that could be linked to

• Input new content and prepare for ToP conference