{"id":479,"date":"2005-04-13T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/04\/13\/guiding-questions\/"},"modified":"2005-10-05T14:07:25","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T19:07:25","slug":"guiding-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/04\/13\/guiding-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Guiding Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Originally posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/small-change-news\/\">sCNN &#8211; the smallChangeNewsNetwork<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>The following questions have guided sCNN development, almost from the beginning and are answered over and over in the postings here.  <\/p>\n<p>The first two, &#8220;want?&#8221; and &#8220;have?&#8221; have been answered rather explicitly in longer, overview postings. The answer to &#8220;need?&#8221; tends to be posted individually as they come up.  You&#8217;ll likely pick them out as you scroll through the archives.  <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;will do?&#8221; answer is mostly embedded in the practice itself, in the commitment and continuity that you can see and judge for yourself on these pages.  &#8220;Will do&#8221; also shows up, more explicitly, when you click &#8220;donate now&#8221; in our DropCash campaign (top of the sidebar).<\/p>\n<p><b>What Do You Want?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is happening in your neighborhood, your school, and the larger world?<\/li>\n<li>What do you see and hear?  &#8230;or smell?<\/li>\n<li>What are you bumping into and how do you feel about it?<\/li>\n<li>What should be happening?<\/li>\n<li>How could the most important issues be addressed or resolved?<\/li>\n<li>What do you want the solution to look and sound and feel like? <\/li>\n<li>What is your own dream project?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What Do You Have?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who are you and what do you already have going for you? <\/li>\n<li>Who do you know?  Where are you connected?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s already working, and why? <\/li>\n<li>How did you come to care about this issue? <\/li>\n<li>What gifts, talents, passions, skills and experiences do you bring to this?<\/li>\n<li>Are you spending your own time and money on making something happen? <\/li>\n<li>Do you have the funding and need people to work with? <\/li>\n<li>Who&#8217;s already supporting this project? <\/li>\n<li>Who can we contact, as references, to find out more about the good work you&#8217;ve already been doing?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What Do You Need?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What would it take for you to make a difference?  <\/li>\n<li>Are you looking for partners?  Connections?  Some funding? A place to meet?  Some special sort of expertise? <\/li>\n<li>What kind of connections and contributions do you need to give your own gifts, and make your own contribution, more fully?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of support do you need for this project?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What Will You Do?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What will you do if you get the help you need?<\/li>\n<li>What are your immediate next steps?  <\/li>\n<li>What results will you produce? <\/li>\n<li>Where will you report your progress and success stories? <\/li>\n<li>How will all of this benefit you, your contributors and the situation and people you are wanting to serve? <\/li>\n<li>What can you promise to this project and anyone else who will join you in it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p>technorati:  <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sCNN\" rel=\"tag\">sCNN<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/smallchangenews\" rel=\"tag\">SmallChangeNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted to sCNN &#8211; the smallChangeNewsNetwork The following questions have guided sCNN development, almost from the beginning and are answered over and over in the postings here. The first two, &#8220;want?&#8221; and &#8220;have?&#8221; have been answered rather explicitly in longer, overview postings. The answer to &#8220;need?&#8221; tends to be posted individually as they come &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/04\/13\/guiding-questions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guiding Questions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smallchangenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}