Using a community reference system for selecting participants in a community search conference...
The community determines its own members whether it is a geopolitical, professional or issue related community. There are seven distinct steps to locating individuals to include in the search conference:
- 1. Research a rough social map.
- 2. Decide relevant criteria:
- - knwn to be actively concerned about X.
- - Other as relevant to X.
- 3. Pick a starting point in each section of the map.
- 4. Ask each starting point for two or three names that fit criteria.
- 5. Ask each of the new names to give you two or three names that fit criteria.
- 6. After 1, 2, or 3 iterations the same names should appear.
- 7. Select from the total list (cover total map jigsaw).
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