Hi there,
This past fall, I held my first online Q&A session with FSU student leaders Joelle Rodriguez and Zachary Bensley using a chat feature we installed on Blog From the ‘BURG. You can learn more about that Q&A session here. Joelle and Zach asked a lot of good questions, and following their formal Q&A with me, we opened up the forum to questions and comments from viewers watching the dialogue online, so they could share their thoughts as well. People chimed in on everything from their opinions on my alcohol policy to sustainability. Due to time limitations we had to eventually end the forum, but the rush of questions from the FSU community at the end was a clear indication to me that we need to keep having online conversations and dialogue through this Blog.
I wanted to let all of you know that we’re in the process of revamping the chat feature, based on some helpful feedback and ideas we’ve gotten from participants and other viewers. It will be incorporated into an actual Blog post, so there’s more space to see the chat and follow the dialogue. We are also fine-tuning some ways to make it easier to follow the conversation and streamline it more.
The first Q&A session we did was a good experiment to see how we can grow these chat sessions online. My goal is to host another online forum on Feb. 25 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. here on the Blog using our new and improved chat feature (you can see an example of what the feature will look like below). I think this time I’d like to keep it pretty free-form and just see what people want to talk about. Following this forum, I hope to schedule regular chat sessions on Blog From the ‘BURG every two weeks, so that people can visit the Blog at a regular time and talk to me about different issues.
We will let the FSU community know more details on how they can participate in the upcoming forum later this month. Thanks to everyone for your patience and your continued interest in having conversations about our University community in new ways that respond to our growing digital culture.








Here is some info about our student leaders who are participating in tonight's 
