Date: Monday, August 21

Time:  3:30pm MST/6:30pm EDT

Location: via Zoom 

Meeting Type: Regular Meeting

How Called: Standing meeting

Convened: 6:35

Attendees: Barry, Maryanna, Katherine

1 Minutes

Approval of July minutes.

2 Information Sharing

• Experience paper regarding swag- published
• August Newsletter- published
• Web page updates: Newsletters, Experience Papers 
• Pennsylvania State Digital Equity Coalition (PASDEC)- website 2.0 discussions
  • Benton & Common Sense are helping PA, MO, AZ
• Arizona Digital Inclusion Network (ADIN) – focus to stay connected to influence the plan and organize things for Digital Inclusion week in October.
• TXDEN- Barry queried. 
• Net Inclusion: Early Registration starts Sept 1. Barry is on National Planning Committee

3 Action Item Status Updates

Walking through the Action Item List and noting updates. In the minutes, this will record items closed during meeting. 

1. Note, changed from having partner profiles to highlighting what our partners to at Digital Inclusion week and NDIA conference and other events throughout the year.
2. Closed 8/21/23–have the experience paper – https://www.pbdd.org/swag-best-worst-and-why/. opened , 3/20/23 – What makes good swag. Gave $100 to the first three organizations that answer all 4 questions. Sent this in June. Possible bonus awards for really good answers.
   1. What’s the best swag you’ve ever gotten at a conference?
   2. Best thing you’ve given out.
   3. What’s the worst thing you tried?
   4. Why do you give it out?

4 Time and Location for Next Meeting

Next meeting – Monday, Sept 18 ; 3:30pm MST/6:30pm EDT via zoom

5 Adjourn

Adjourned: 7:20