CoPs and International NGO Work
I'm hopscotching across online events and websites this week and there is a lot popping. I am attending iCohere's online CoP event and stumbled across this flash presentation on World Vision's global strategic planning process which includes both distributed and F2F elements blended together. The online component is using iCohere. iCohere founder Soren Kaplan is also interviewed on the Online Community Report. (You can check out the CoP conference as well as it heads into its last day.)
Scrolling around the OCR, there are also other interesting interviews (in
case you aren't subscribed already to the Online Community Report.) Next on my list to read is the Interview with
Jason Lefkowitz, Oceana
Then, over on IFETS, moderated by Bill Williams in a discussion on "Formal online discussions: reflections on process” You can see the base discussion paper here and from there, leap to the email based discussion.
posted by Nancy White at 7:23 PM
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I forgot, I was going to append a snippet from Kaplan's interview.
"iCohere helps organizations create “collaborative communities”, which we classify into three types of communities – learning communities, communities of practice, and project communities. We’ve applied our backgrounds in education and organizational development and built a software platform that includes a suite of group process and collaboration tools that help people foster relationships, collaboratively learn together, create new knowledge, and work together remotely.
Much of our work bridges the online world with face-to-face meetings and events. I just returned from a meeting with the Environmental Protection Agency, for example, in which over 300 senior leaders met for a four-day leadership development summit in Philadelphia. Now we’re helping this distributed group continue to collaborate online by establishing a community of practice to sustain their momentum. Some of our other clients include organizations like SBC Communications, the National Institutes of Health, Case Western Reserve University, World Vision, and the American Society of Association Executives."
And from Lefkowitz's
"Jason Lefkowitz is Manager of E-activism at Oceana, an environmental NGO. In this capacity he seeks to harness online communities in e-activism. He also maintains the online community blog Ants Eye View. We caught up to him recently to hear his views on advocacy and online communities."
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