Pacesetters+Triangle+Meeting+Notes





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= Weekly Team Meeting #1 = Note: Team meetings continue to incur technical difficulties with audio connections remaining connected.

**Date:** Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

**Place:** Skype conference call

**Topic:** Introduction and Creative Project Brainstorming

The meeting commenced at approximately 10:48 AM EST with some technical difficulties. The members in attendance were as follows:

Labeeb C A - Member Jamie Cole - Scribe Saeeda Sayed - Member Verneice Starling - Team Leader Amber Worley - Connector

Verneice Starling received a message from Franz Bautista that he was unable to make the meeting time to do an emergency situation.

Verneice Starling opened the meeting with a welcome and getting to know you activity, where each team member said their birth month and day and favorite color.

FreeConferenceCall.com was not functioning as expected, so the team decided to forgo the visual aspect of the meeting. Verneice Starling and Jamie Cole will troubleshoot this issue prior to the next meeting.

Verneice Starling discussed housekeeping items, including a general wiki introduction, team directory description, and wiki navigation explanation. Each team member is responsible for updating the date under their introduction paragraph at least weekly. Jamie Cole suggested we follow up about Saeeda's photo and date update as she was no longer on the call due to connection issues.

Verneice Starling explained the email structure and why the subject line is important on emails that are copied to triangle@lifebushido.com. Team members are asked to make sure the name in the subject line is changed prior to sending an email reply.

Verneice Starling proposed moving the weekly team meeting to Tuesday at the same time as Thursday to afford additional time and meeting opportunities. Jamie Cole, Labeeb C A, and Amber Worley all concurred. The other members (Franz Bautista and Saeeda Sayed) will be contacted individually by Verneice Starling for concurrence, but the meeting is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, October 8th.

Verneice Starling discussed the creative project and how to access the wiki page for brainstorming ideas submissions. Amber Worley inquired about the overall requirements of the creative project, and Verneice Starling offered a brief overview, and directed the team to the main Lifebushido Triangle Creative Project wikipage to review past projects. Amber was having difficulties seeing the entire page, but will work on aspect ratios offline. Verneice Starling sent out a list of links via email to all team members to research the creative project wiki information. Team members are to review the information and provide brainstorming ideas (minimum 1 creative project idea) by Friday, October 4th at 11:59 pm (your time zone). Saeeda Sayed will need to be contacted offline as she was not on the call for this portion of the meeting.

Verneice Starling discussed the creative project ideas that are currently submitted from herself, Franz Bautista, and Jamie Cole. See http://lifebushido-triangle.wikispaces.com/Pacesetters+Triangle+Creative+Project for the current list of projects.

Jamie Cole stressed the importance of the time frame and the scope-control of the proposals, since the team has approximately 10 days to complete the project after approval from Steve Kantor.

Verneice Starling discussed the voting strategy of choosing the top 3 creative project ideas, as well as the template for submitting the 3 creative project ideas to Steve Kantor for approval. This issue is TBD based on how many ideas are submitted by the remaining team members.

Verneice Starling then discussed the upcoming tasks. She inquired about the animal personality information status from team members that had not yet posted their results (Amber Worley and Labeeb C A, Saeeda Sayed will need to be contacted offline as she was not on the call for this portion of the meeting).

Verneice Starling discussed with Labeeb C A how his global tasks interface with the triangle tasks and his new hire tasks. Additional confirmation is required as to what tasks the global team members are required to do, Verneice Starling will inquire.

Labeeb C A mentioned that the team members need to help to bring other team members up to speed so we are all successful.

Jamie Cole discussed briefly what the wiki was missing at the time of the meeting. It is as follows:

Franz Bautista - nothing at this time Labeeb C A - Animal Personalities (RCI & Serengeti), perfect job paragraph, creative project idea Jamie Cole - nothing at this time Saeeda Sayed - Photo, Animal Personalities (RCI & Serengeti), perfect job paragraph, creative project idea Verneice Starling - nothing at this time Amber Worley - Animal Personalities (RCI & Serengeti), perfect job paragraph, creative project idea

Jamie Cole offered to post the items to the team wiki for the team member, if the information is forwarded in a email.

Verneice Starling discussed the annual goals and Goalbushido. All goals must be emailed to Verneice Starling, Jamie Cole, and cc'd to triangle@lifebushido.com by October 8th for compilation and submission.

Verneice Starling stressed that the individual New Recruit Tasks 1-4 may take more time than allotted, and team members should perform the tasks to the best of their ability in order to reflect their quality of work, in order to achieve the goal of being hired.

Verneice Starling discussed the team personal pages, including their purpose, potential content, and web-safety issues.

Verneice Starling mentioned that the team was to perform the Websites and Services tasks today as well. Saeeda Sayed will need to be contacted offline as she was not on the call for this portion of the meeting.

The meeting ended at approximately 12:30 pm EST. = =

= = = Weekly Team Meeting #2 =

**Date:** Tuesday, October 8th, 2013

**Place:** Teamviewer Screenshare & Conference Call

**Topic:** Weekly Team Meeting #2

The meeting commenced at approximately 10:30am EST. The members in attendance were as follows:

Franz Bautista - Visionary Labeeb C A - Member Jamie Cole - Scribe Verneice Starling - Team Leader

Verneice Starling opened the meeting with a discussion regarding the team voting for the Creative Project. With a shared screen, Verneice Starling reviewed the current votes and a strategy for choosing the top 3 Creative Project ideas.

Verneice is going to add Moodle and Teamview to the Lifebushido Websites & Services wiki pending section, as these sites are used by the team and would be useful for other recruits and Ishidos.

After review, the present team members decided that the first Creative Project idea to be added to the list to be presented to Steve will be the creation of a Lifebushido Forum. This idea received the most votes overall, and is a plausible, measurable, and useful project for new recruits, as well as for Ishidos. To quantify this idea, the team will need for the Lifebushido team to send out a link to the forum to all Ishidos and survey them on it's utility. The forum will be open-source, but will require a login so only Ishidos can post.

The present team members then decided that the second idea that will be presented to Steve as a Creative Project will be to update the Lifebushido.com website. This project has the potential to become a fellowship as well, if the team members are hired. Items to update include archiving the out-of-date MBA Mom position, updating copyright information, and refreshing the color scheme to better reflect the energy of Lifebushido. To quantify this idea, the team will need to add a counter and/or survey users (or Ishidos) on the new site vs. the old.

The third idea that the present team members decided should be presented to Steve as a Creative Project will be the Training Bushido idea. The present team members decided that the topic of the training will be "How to Create a Wiki Page". To quantify this idea, the team will need to survey Ishidos and have the training module incorporated into the Triangle process. Suggested applications include Moodle and Jing.

Jamie Cole suggested moving the Training Bushido idea to the second place on the list, and the Lifebushido.com Website Update to the third place since the scope of the former is more defined at this time.

Verneice Starling then reminded the team about the importance of updating the dates on the website to verify activity. She showed the team via screen share where the new active status and date field is on team main wiki page for updating active status date.

Verneice Starling also discussed the personal pages and suggestions about what to include. Then she discussed the individual tasks and task page, and encourages the team to continue working on the tasks.

Verneice Starling demonstrated adding anchors to wiki pages and tabled further demonstration until the team meeting on 10-15-13 when all member would be present.

Franz Bautista reviewed the wiki information with the team regarding Task 1, Circle of Clients not being required of global members, Task 2 being different from a similar name task for global members and therefore required of global members, Task 3 already completed by global members. Verneice Starling confirmed Task 3 already completed could be resubmitted, and Task 4 was to be completed by global members.

There were additional questions from Franz Bautista and Jamie Cole, but due to ongoing technical issues the meeting was adjourned. It was agreed questions would be e-mailed to the Leader, Verneice Starling.

The meeting ended at approximately 12:30pm EST.

= Weekly Team Meeting #3 =

**Date:** Tuesday, October 15th, 2013

**Place:** Teamviewer Screenshare & Skype Conference Call

**Topic:** Weekly Team Meeting #3

The meeting commenced at approximately 10:42am EST. The members in attendance were as follows:

Franz Bautista - Visionary Labeeb C A - Member Jamie Cole - Scribe Saeeda Sayed - Member Verneice Starling - Team Leader

Verneice Starling opened the meeting with a discussion with Saeeda Sayed regarding updating wiki pages, including active dates. They also discussed Saeeda's RCI information, which she then uploaded to the wiki. Verneice Starling also discussed the individual tasks with Saeeda Sayed for a general status update.

Verneice Starling then discussed the Pacesetters' Triangle Creative Project driver call, which is scheduled for Friday, October 18th at 10:30 am EST. The call will likely be with Wendy Bingaman, and possibly Steve Kantor as he is still traveling. The main purpose of the call is to choose a Creative Project topic for the team.

Labeeb C A, Franz Bautista, and Verneice Starling have had some offline discussion regarding the Training Bushido and Ishido Forum ideas (proposals 1 & 2). Verneice Starling mentioned that Lifebushido already has a training module wiki (she also showed a screen share of the training wiki) and a Ishido Forum called "The Watercooler" that is inactive. She also mentioned that there's currently a Lifebushido team with no leader in Technology and they maybe tasked with updating the LIfebushido main website. Therefore, all 3 proposals have some sort of presence or initiative started in Lifebushido, but none are completed or active.

Verneice Starling then encouraged all team members to attend the Pacesetters' Triangle Creative Project driver call, but said it was optional. The team members present hope to be able to attend. After the call, the team will have 13 days (until October 30th) to complete the Creative Project through presentation and finalize the team wiki.

Verneice Starling then recommended that Saeeda Sayed forward any tasks to her or Jamie Cole for upload to the wiki as a time-saving measure. She also discussed and reviewed the Websites and Services task with Saeeda and showed her a screen share with a general instructional overview.

Franz Bautista suggested using Moodle for the Ishido Forum, and he is going to get a prototype started.

Verneice Starling then mentioned that there is a late start Lifebushido Triangle called the Rising Stars.

Verneice Starling reviewed the overall requirements and status of each members' individual tasks, and finished the conference with a screen share and instructional on the personal wiki pages. She mentioned that New Hires are required to be assessed on wiki creation, so it's important for all team members to be familiar with creating and modifying pages.

The meeting ended at approximately 11:40am EST.

= Weekly Team Meeting #4 =


 * Date: ** Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013

**Place:** Teamviewer Screenshare & Skype Conference Call

**Topic:** Weekly Team Meeting #4

The meeting commenced at approximately 10:35am EST. The members in attendance were as follows:

Labeeb Abdulkareem - Member Jamie Cole - Scribe Verneice Starling - Team Leader

Verneice Starling opened the meeting requesting that Jamie Cole set up a teleconference account for the next team meeting.

Verneice Starling then discussed the potential platforms for Pacesetters' Triangle Creative Project proposal of a Lifebushido forum. One of the previously proposed platforms, Moodle, requires software download, which may be an issue for some, so the platform is tabled until further notice. A review of the top 3 current platforms that are under consideration was screen-shared by Verneice Starling. The three platforms under consideration are Proboards, Zetaboards, and Invision Free Forums. Proboards appears to have the most advantages at this time for the potential Creative Project, including user friendliness and mobile applications. Zetaboards seems to have the most spam protection features, and will be considered as a second choice at this point.

Verneice Starling then screen-shared the prototype site at www.chatshido.freeforums.net, tentatively titled Watercooler Ishido Forum. She showed the team members the overal functionality of the site, as well as other active sites on the platform to show it's capabilities. The moderator permissions and security settings were also discussed.

Jamie Cole suggested adding admin account approval to the security settings.

Verneice Starling then suggested that the web address extension be changed to boards.net as most of the forums on that extension are business-related.

The team then discussed and suggested the following forum subsections: New Recruits, New Hires, Ishidos, Global Ishidos, Lifebushido Positions, New Recruit Triangles, Technical Questions, Wiki Questions, Team Rooms, and specialty social (i.e. WAHM Ishidos, RIshidos, etc.) The team has an action item to brainstorm forum subsections.

Verneice Starling then discussed the items that will be discussed with Steve Kantor on driver call on Thursday, October 24th at 12 pm EDT, on the stated probability he has chosen the Lifebushido Forum as the Pacesetters' Triangle's Creative Project. These items include asking Steve Kantor if the forum title (Water Cooler) and web address (chatshido.freeforums.net) are acceptable, how he would like moderation to be handled, requesting an email blast for Ishido traffic to the forum, and adding a link to the forum on Lifebushido social media pages and the wiki.

Verneice Starling also suggests that the team provide a survey (via SurveyMonkey) to gather information from Ishidos on their preferences and needs regarding the forum. This will also be discussed with Steve Kantor on the upcoming driver call. The team has an action item to brainstorm survey questions.

Verneice Starling then provided a general overview of the proposed Pacesetters' Creative Project Action Plan as follows: narrow down the forum platform, set-up the forum, and market the forum. The team has an action item to provide forum Logo ideas.

Verneice Starling then finished the conference with a screen share and instructional on the personal wiki pages of the present team members. Jamie Cole also inquired about wiki directory clarification.

The meeting ended at approximately 12:25pm EST.

= Weekly Team Meeting #5 =

**Date:** Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

**Place:** Teamviewer Screenshare & Skype Conference Call

**Topic:** Weekly Team Meeting #5

The meeting commenced at approximately 10:40am EST. The members in attendance were as follows:

Labeeb Abdulkareem - Member Franz Bautista - Visionary Jamie Cole - Scribe Verneice Starling - Team Leader

Verneice Starling opened the meeting with a screen share of the forum with a detailed instructional presentation. Topics covered included and overall layout commentary, creating boards and threads, making threads sticky, and other details of forum creation and maintenance.

Verneice Starling then provided a description and commentary on each existing board. The "About Lifebushido" board may need a description. The "Open Positions" board has been started, but required the addition of global Ishido positions. Franz Bautista provided the three global Ishido positions and will create boards and information for each on the forum. Jamie Cole will add information to the other Ishido positions that have not been populated.

Verneice Starling then screen-shared an example of a thread creation for the topic "How do you stay safe working at home?"

Verneice Starling then assigned the team the task of adding boards, thread, and information to populate the forum as much as possible prior to 11:59pm EST on 10/30 so that the forum may be submitted to Steve for marketing strategy approval on 10/31.

Verneice Starling then discussed the roles of each team member as moderators and/or administrators. The team is to choose which boards they'd like to moderate.

Franz Bautista and Verneice Starling then discussed the email marketing list mining strategy and progress, and the marketing strategy was also discussed with the team.

Verneice Starling then reviewed the marketing email template, including team members previously submitted feedback, and made changes as discussed.

The meeting ended at approximately 1:10pm EST.

= Weekly Team Meeting #6 =

**Date:** Tuesday, November 5th, 2013

**Place:** Teamviewer Screenshare & Skype Conference Call

**Topic:** Weekly Team Meeting #6

The meeting commenced at approximately 10:40 am EST. The members in attendance were as follows:

Labeeb Abdulkareem - Member Jamie Cole - Scribe Verneice Starling - Team Leader

Verneice Starling opened the meeting stating that Steve Kantor would be traveling for 2 weeks, and he informed her on the 11/4/2013 Driver Call that the forum marketing is currently on hold until he returns.

Verneice Starling then suggested that in the mean time the Pacesetters try to get the word out if the opportunitiy is presented when communicating with other new hires or Ishidos.

Verneice Starling then asked Labeeb Abdulkareem about his status as a new hire, and he mentioned that all is going well and he is hoping to start work with the database team shortly.

Verneice Starling then asked Jamie Cole about her status as a new hire, and she said she is working on her new hire tasks and KAT. Various task-related questions were discussed.

Verneice Starling then discussed that the Pacesetters and the Rising Stars Triangles are to work together in integrating their resective creativbe projects. She showed a screen-share of the Rising Stars' Kudos website, and discussed ways that the Pacesetters can link to and draw information from the website as a board on the forum.

The meeting ended at approximately 11:30 am EST.