Strategic Planning Input from Listeners/Members/Volunteers
Hi-
We are looking for members of the KBOO Communtiy to provide input in our strategic planning process. Please fill out the attached form and email it back to me at development (at) kboo dot org. You can also drop off the form at the station in my mailbox. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Please return by October 19th
Thanks,
Sun Lee
KBOO Development Director
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This is all stupid
Kboo is fine JUST the way it is. Kboo has flourished for the last 40 years because of the way it operates. If there is anyone that doesn't like how it's run they should consider their own alternate projects, or simply getting more involved in the station.
I don't like the idea of hunting out people and asking them what they think. If they were upset about the way things were being run I'm sure we'd all hear about it. I think it's all a big ruse to secretly kill kboo from the inside by the CIA by 'focus grouping it to death'.
*(* vultures are sensing oportunities and vying for power. It's disgusting . like pigs at a trough goblbgbgblebgblgbll*)*
:0 -*..%..
IF IT AINT BROKE DONT FIX IT!
look what they did to my song mah
it's the only thing I could do half-right
and it's turning out all wrong oh lord
-melanie
Power
Dear Dr. Hypothesis,
I am sorry that you see things the way you do. This isn't an argument about power. I know very well what that looks like. It is a disucussion about how to keep a business alive and thriving into the future. There is NO conspiracy here. The CIA has far better things to do than to trouble with KBOO. We are an important piece of the local media that has international reach, but this is hardly KGB stuff here. No one is losing their lives. There aren't billions of dollars in the mix.
You can see countless historical examples of organizations that did not acknowledge changing times and thus became more and more irrelivant. Any good business or movement for that matter adapts to changing times in order to survive and endure. Take compies such as Intel. Are they still selling 386DX machines anymore? Are they stubbornly insisting that they will continue to sell these machines because "nothing" is wrong with them? Do you think that they would sell in today's market? How about the Atari 2600? (one of my old favorites). Where is it selling besides as a relic on eBay?
I never would have thought that "liberals" could be "conservative" in resisting change. Liberals are all about adapting to the times, no? We are the one's looking to advance the envelope.
Hi- KBOO is fine and has
Hi-
KBOO is fine and has flourished for the past 40 years, but the numbes don't lie. We have had declining listenership over the past 5 years and with that has come declining revenue. I think it is important to think about how to attract new listeners, Portland is a much different place than it was 40 years ago or even 10 years ago. I regularly talk to people that grew up in Portland and haven't heard of KBOO or talk to new transplants that are excited about hearing about KBOO but didn't know about it till I told them. We would like to change that and make more people aware of this great community resource.
As for your statement asking for people to get more involved if they don't like the way KBOO is run. I would like to say that the strategic planning group is comprised of 3 staff, 3 board members and 6 volunteers new and old, so this is coming from a place and from people who are "involved".
DrHypothesis, feel free to contact me if you would like to talk about this further.
Sun Lee
KBOO Development Director
The future of KBOO
I would agree with you, Sun. KBOO is older than I am! It has been a true survivor in the Portland scene. However, organizations that do not adapt to changing times cease to exist. I am sure that you would agree. I had some frank coversations with two long time residents of Portland while I was helping a friend paint his house. They told me that they admired KBOO a great deal, but did not listen as much because they were tired of "angry radio".
There is a big difference in telling people how they should think, rather than giving them the tools to think for themselves. KBOO represents one of the more potentially powerful social advocacy voices in Portland, but are we empowering or infuriating? This is the question.
It is KBOO's role to represent the under-served. However, there is always a cost to this focus. There is a reason why some people are "under served" in a left-of-center city like Portland. It is all about money. Where is the line of broadening our listenership while maintaining our mission statement? How does KBOO invite those that would normally not listen to KBOO? How do we get these new listeners to contribute to KBOO?
strategic planning
"Strategic planning" that is set up from the top down is useless in a member owned organization unless it's an attempt to get rid of substantial membership control. Staff is not just hired get radio aired; their duty to the Foundation is their duty to the members; if they fail in that duty they will have to leave KBOO
owner
We are ALL Kboo owners
Not one of us is anymore influential than anyone else. Let's keep this in mind when posting as "kboo owner" because it suggests that you are the only one. We are all in this together.
I have been a part of strategic planning for another non-profit. I am not sure where you are getting your data from other than thin air. Non-profits approach strategic planning from the top and the bottom. It is the standard. At Cascade AIDS Project they had numerous focus groups to provide input from all over the community spectrum whether they be current clients, former clients, fellow providers, funders, managers, or employees. This is the way it is done in non-profits from my experience and it is the way it will be done at KBOO.
Our duty as staff is to our
Our duty as staff is to our community, not just the members, but also the listeners and volunteers, this is why we have asked for members, listeners and volunteers to fill out applications to be on the committee, so that everyone involved with KBOO would be represented and we could hav a good cross section of KBOO community members on the committee.
Sun
Top-down or bottom-up? Profit or principle?
Hi Sun,
I was wondering if the strategic planning you speak of is member driven, or a top-down idea?
We have two different schools of thought at KBOO, one where "sustainability" means running KBOO like any other business, including sacraficing principle for profit, and the other is to keep KBOO's uniqueness as a voice for the voiceless, including lots of community involvement, etc.
Which form of sustainability are you referring to? (I don't see where you could be referring to both forms of sustainability because they conflict with each other.....)
Ad Naseum?
Hasn't this question been answered ad naseum? Here's reality: If KBOO doesn't make money, it can't broadcast "idealism" PERIOD. Placing the cart before the horse?
Hi Yvette- Actually this
Hi Yvette-
Actually this address both schools of thought. The board of directors, whom are elected by the KBOO membership thought the station needed to have a strategic plan for the future. We are also asking for community involvement by having this appliaction process so that listeners/members/supporters can have a chance to participate along with staff and board.
Sun