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Terence - First entry for the five, which I think that should to be one of my 5....if I really struggle, we shall see.- Made the fifty phone calls to various colleges and university unions.
- (I am going to comment about this, just because I can) Excellent, I went from hating bell for inventing the 'troublesome' device, to attacking each call with some sort of new found confidence. Thick skin, chin up, that's the way to do it. - Contributed to a debate on the site for the first time, it did end up being a bit of a rant. God bless the internet.
- Introduced some of my friends to debatewise, and Mr Debate Wise on facebook. I can't get over how some people will add anybody on facebook. It does strike me as odd how some of us give out privileged information willingly but then complains when other people have it! I am grateful they added Mr Debate wise though.
- Started my first debate, though in retrospect feels like a advert for spotify despite my best effort to come up with cons. Still, Karma is now up to 2. Result!
- Really struggling now.......OOO We had a very productive lunch meeting about promotions for Revisewise. Not a personal achievement but I am very proud to have been in that meeting.
That's it for the week, hope to improve next week.
Betony - I can understand Terence struggling, it has been hard to get 5 things when the main focus has been calling but anyway here goes...
- Twitter progress: Amnesty want to do a debate for International Women's Day and I chatted to Krishnan Guru Murthy about the site!
- Telephone 100 colleges and universities. More calls that that if you include calling back ones that were out...
- Came up with moreplans for marketing 'Revisewise' - revise both sides
- )Got debate up about twitter and rubbernecking in under half an hour from when the topic was first mentioned on internet.
- )Went to first tuttle and met some really great people
Alex - I agree that its difficult to find 5 things, but as I was told off when I only put 4 up I had better think of 5
- Made over 100 phone calls (given I hate phones this is more like something I will be relieved about it being over when it’s over rather than ever being something I would be proud of)
- Got round to publishing my two revisewise debates - I know I did a fair bit of the writing on them last week, forgot about the important bit though (incidentally as with terrance they are also my first full debates, I have however made some points before)
- Contributed to ideas sessions (you can tell I am struggling as I left ideas sessions off the previous two weeks when I probably contributed more!!)
- Made a list of possible contacts for world online debating championship (the 150 odd will do for now if we are only looking for a small number of teams to start, there are bound to be thousands out there¸ finding them is more difficult though...)
- Done some background research into revision techniques – hopefully will help betony writing an article for student newspapers
Dave C - my five things are:
- Called 100 people about ReviseWise and really got into it as the week went on.
- Went to BootStrapCamp and managed to get a debate up about the virtual currency that should be used in a skills bartering exchange within two hours of leaving the meeting.
- Had The Debatewise Foundation’s first board meeting, formally invited Ravi to join the board, worked through all the agenda items and found a workable solution to the tricky conflict of issues issue of me being paid from the charity whilst being a trustee.
- Made progress with the site development by getting informal agreement to hire a top-end Rails developer to oversee the project
- Applied to Reach Online for two new members of staff, a fundraising intern and fundraising mentor to help me prioritise tasks and set goals.