POST-SUMMIT ANALYSIS PROCEDURE Step 1: After photographing all the charts
generated by the table conversations, the team used the Post-it™ App to automatically transcribe the 1,061 Post-it™ notes generated throughout the day into an Excel spreadsheet. When the transcription was unintelligible the results were cross-checked with the original handwritten notes. For readability, light editing was applied to fix misspellings, correct capitalization and insert a missing word indicated by parenthesis. Step 2: All comments were read and grouped into categories. Step 3: A second and third round of categorization occurred while section summaries were drafted and the comments most representative of the categories were selected. This means that not all comments on the Post- it™ notes are represented in this report. For example, in Education “the ick factor” or variations of this idea such as smell, and rodents were mentioned multiple times as a barrier to compost education but not every comment on this idea is documented in the report. Step 4: A second person reviewed the entire
draft report, confirming categories, identifying new categories, and confirming if appropriate decisions had been made when a comment that was brought up during a current effort discussion might better be categorized as an opportunity. Step 5 : The full NTAE project team reviewed the report and revisions were made based on their feedback. Step 6: A draft report was sent to all 79 Summit attendees before the report was made public. Summit attendees were asked to complete a brief follow-up survey to glean more input on how they were going to work on the action items and who was missing from the Summit. The results are in the section, Concluding Remarks. Note: This analysis did not attempt to capture the number of times a subject was mentioned as it was not possible to determine if one person was making a similar comment about a specific subject many times throughout the day or if many people were making similar comments on a single subject. The analysis is instead focused on representing the many different voices in the room as accurately and succinctly as possible. There may be some discrepancies between what is reported in the graphics as they were based on the verbal table report outs of what each group discussed and tended to reflect the extended conversations held at the tables rather than what was recorded on the Post-it™ notes.
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