I think ETC's biggest move it can do is to show some actual development successes, get some form of structure going, decide fairly early on if it intends to remain a PoW chain, and begin to embrace coming into its own.
As a miner, i will be willing to sit aside a percentage of of my keep to help fund development, foundation, structure, whatever it may be because i feel that will in turn reap its reward and make mining more profitable. If every miner can be willing to sit aside, say a additional 1% on top of the pool fee that will help tremendously and add up pretty quickly.
As i said on my reddit post, i do firmly believe in "Code is Law", i do not however believe that the law of code is a excuse to pardon criminals nor a invitation to criminal elements. I don't and still do not believe the fork was needed to correct the DAO fiasco. Just like the rogue white hat funds were frozen, i believe the same could of been done for the DAO hacker and can still be done. Then the funds can be returned to its rightful owners through the proper channels and authorities. We did not need to interfere with the law of code to accomplish a correction. Law of man and law of code can respect each other. Just because "Code is Law" dont make it ok to steal millions of dollars!
But yeah man, direction, goals, action, accomplishments. ETC needs it.