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Blog: Strategic Priorities for 2023-24 https://cosocial.info/blog/strategic-priorities-for-2023-24/
As part of the #CoSocialAGM2023, we resolved to run a poll, which concluded this Tuesday. The results are attached.
Now, we’ll keep talking about how the Coop Working Groups and the Board will use your chosen priorities to steer the Association’s work for the next year. Let’s do this together!
(Raw text and percentage results in alt-text)
 34%
* Inspire and mentor another social media coop through incorporation and startup 3%
* Organize in-person events in cities where members are, co-locating them with existing topical meetups where possible 18%
* Provide education and room to explore the Cooperative's structure and coop model generally for fediverse instances 25%
* Scope and hire project manager role to “PM” areas of the coop, whether that be a WG or at the cooperative level 0%
* Use our own domains somehow as our handle on CoSocial 6%](https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/111/223/145/526/710/425/original/bb2999e82c5912f9.png "Screenshot of CoSocial AGM poll. 32 voters,
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* Create a thriving and vibrant community 59%
* Develop and launch a member-ready service to drive recruitment in the next year (e.g. Pixel fed and image sharing, a first-in-class Lemmy experience for news sharing) 40%
* Go to a federated social media event or gathering as a cohort 3%
* Have active and empowered members who can step into a working group 34%
* Position ourselves as a testbed for new features for governance of mastodon 18%
* Help start regional servers to exist in coordination with CoSocial 3%
* Hire our first paid staff 28%
* Identify additional services that CoSocial will provide to members, either included in annual fees or at additional cost 18%
* Implement and actively use trust and safety tooling in collaboration with organizations like [Independent Federated Trust and Safety (IFTAS)](https://about.iftas.org/) 34%
* Inspire and mentor another social media coop through incorporation and startup 3%
* Organize in-person events in cities where members are, co-locating them with existing topical meetups where possible 18%
* Provide education and room to explore the Cooperative's structure and coop model generally for fediverse instances 25%
* Scope and hire project manager role to “PM” areas of the coop, whether that be a WG or at the cooperative level 0%
* Use our own domains somehow as our handle on CoSocial 6%")