COMM-ORG 2003 evaluation is available

[colist at comm-org.utoledo.edu]

Hi COMM-ORG.  Thanks to those of you who participated in the 2003 
evaluation of COMM-ORG.  And thanks to Anne Shepherd, a student 
from my spring 2003 Community Organizing class, for conducting the 
evaluation.

If you would like to view the results, you can find them at:

http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/eval03/03eval.htm

The response rate was pretty small (65 of 850), but the people who 
responded look a lot like COMM-ORG looks (about half academics and 
half practitioners and others, and mostly but not completely from the 
U.S.)

In contrast to past years, there seems to be a growing interest in 
discussing issues on the list, which I think is great.  I encourage people 
to engage in those discussions.  So if there is a community organizing 
or related issue you would like to start a discussion on, please do so.

There also seemed to be more support than in the past for moving to a 
somewhat more formal papers collection.  But people cautioned that 
should be done only if it doesn't compromise the quality of the papers.  
This may be worth discussing at more length to see how much interest 
there is for this and how to make sure it produces a publication that 
people want to read.