🫵 This space is for you! Ask questions to C4AI staff or your fellow organizers, seek advice, share suggestions and lessons learned, and celebrate your successes.
 

📣 When there are big announcements coming to the server C4AI staff will often post them here first - as key members of our community your input is valuable!

🧵 Feel free to start a thread with a specific question - the thread makes it easy for us to have a quick back-and-forth to help you get the answer you need. Other organizers will have visibility into the thread (perhaps they’ll benefit from hearing the answer as well!), but only those tagged in the thread will be notified.

🌻 You can also DM Madeline (madeline_smith) or Brittawnya (brittawnya) 

• Alternating Tuesdays, 11:00-11:45 am ET

• Think of the Leads Drop-In as “office hours with Madeline” :) Feel free to stop by if you…

🧠 Want to brainstorm new initiatives for your program

💡 Have an idea to improve our community/server

💙 Need help with an upcoming event

👋 …or just to say “hi!”

• Come anytime within the 45 min window, and stay as long as you like

• If you’d like more focused support, be in touch with Madeline to discuss options.

🔗 Published Site

🔗 Edit Access

🎨 Make a page for your group under “existing programs” and make it your own!

📚 The purpose of this mini-site is to onboard new community members to our existing offerings and to serve as a repository for materials that get surfaced on Discord and at events. Use your page to…

• • Share a great reading list posted by a community members on Discord

  • Keep links for a collaborative project

  • Share materials from past events

  • Etc!

As a C4AI Lead, you have access to host events via our business accounts with Google Meet and Zoom (aka no time limits and a few extra features!). Deciding between the platforms is ultimately your call, but here are some things to keep in mind about each.

Google Meet

• “Less formal” feeling

• The preferred choice for most reading groups and ad-hoc small meetings

Zoom Meeting / Webinar

• Improved functionality and options for tools such as breakout rooms and screen sharing

• Can implement and waiting room

• Can implement pre-registration for events

• Additional accessibility/inclusivity features including auto audio-to-text transcripts and the ability for participants to change how their name appears in the platform

• There are a host of other tools available including polls, the ability to share music, slides as virtual backgrounds, the ability to annotate another presentation, whiteboards, etc. 

• Used

  • by some of our reading/learning groups, 

  • for events with larger attendance (eg. monthly social)

  • events that are publicly available (for pre-registration and Q&A functionality)

Other?

• Interested in using another platform? Be in touch with Madeline or Brittawnya to discuss!

No matter which platform you choose for your meetings/events, you can be in touch with Madeline to customize settings and explore options - the Bi-Weekly Leads Drop-In is a great time to discuss!