My next 100 days at Mozilla

Open Thinkering Mozilla, Chris Lawrence, Mozilla Festival, Nick Dennis, planning, web literacy standard

Last May when I was just about to start working at Mozilla, Nick Dennis gave me some great advice. He said that I should thrash out with my line manager what I should focus on during my first 100 days, defining what ‘success’ looked like at the end of that period.

For whatever reason, I didn’t take Nick’s advice and, indeed, felt a bit lost at sea by Christmas. That’s not anyone’s fault, particularly, it’s just that I was used to working in an institutional environment (schools/universities) and Mozilla’s, well… different.

So I thought I’d take the opportunity when changing teams within Mozilla to belatedly take Nick’s advice and discuss with my new line manager Chris Lawrence what I should be doing from now until Christmas. Admittedly, that’s a little over 100 days, but it’s close enough. Here’s what we came up with – and what that includes, in no particular order:

  1. Release the Web Literacy Standard v1.0 at MozFest

  2. Work with Michelle Thorne to encourage session leaders to tag their sessions with skills and competencies from the Standard.

  3. Work with Laura Hilliger on relevant session proposals relating to the Standard

  4. Propose a facilitated version of the community work from calls.

  5. Transfer the Web Literacy Standard to webmaker.org

  6. Work with the Webmaker team to integrate the Standard across webmaker.org.

  7. Liaise with Chris Appleton on the design work around the Standard.

  8. Prepare for a Web Literacy Standard alignment contest

  9. Aim for January 2014 and announce at MozFest.

  10. Work with organisations who are interested in aligning before then.
  11. Find people to judge competition.

  12. Work with MozLegal and other people who will be able to help (like Chloe Varelidi)

  13. Dive into Mentor Team-related stuff

  14. Focus on breaking silos and making links with other teams.

  15. Be a thought leaders post-Mozilla Summit for ‘One Mozilla’.

  16. Work with the Mentor Team to bring Open Badges into their projects.

  17. Set up a cross-Mozilla Foundation community working group

  18. Focus on sharing good practices.

  19. Systematise internal and external-facing processes.
  20. Potentially take over running of the weekly Webmaker call.

Obviously, there’s other things that are assumed (like building up a collection of animated GIFs and deploying them appropriately) and other things that will emerge but, for now, I think that’s a great starting point!

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