Hey Jonathan,

I have been writing a guide to Governance for Digital Communications on my website, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on it, if you have a chance to read: http://www.dscottdiperna.com/category/web/governance/

I wrote a governance document for Barnard College when I was the Director of Electronic Communications there, and at the time I wrote it, there was little helpful information about how to do it — just a lot people saying it was important. I’m hoping to be able to contribute something back to others to help ease the process for them. It’s the kind of thing that is really easy to put off in the day-to-day grind of work.

My aim is to make something that is very functional and direct, so I wrote it as a series of questions for people to answer. The difficulty, I find, is that writing this kind of plan requires a lot of sustained critical thinking, and the person writing it probably won’t have all the answers to the questions. This makes it very easy to get stuck and then put it off. I’m not sure I have a solution to the getting stuck on questions you can’t answer, other than to skip them until you can answer them. It’s not an easy task.

I would love to hear your thoughts!

Cheers, Scott

I have looked at Lisa Welchman’s writing, but the DGJ is new to me — looks very interesting. Thanks!