IMARK - Building Electronic Communities
I wanted to do a shout out of congratulations to the IMARK (Information Management Resource Kit) team for the launching of a web based version of their self paced learning module on "Building Electronic Communities and Networks."
OK, full disclosure! I am a contributor to the module and I do work for the IMARK group. But I say that with a smile on my face because I've really enjoyed working with the team - they are collabortive, open and have a sense of humor. That's important when they have to put up with me at 6:30 am for our Skype meetings (9 hour time difference!)
The modules were designed for those working in international development, but the messages run true for just about anyone supporting online groups. There are five units (I contributed to 1 and helped review some of the others):Unit 1 - Online communities - new opportunities
For those without good connectivity, IMARK will send you a CD ROM. Pretty darn great!
This unit covers the benefits and opportunities offered by online communities to facilitate knowledge and information exchange, and describes the key factors for a successful online community.
Unit 2 - Understanding needs and assessing opportunities
This unit explains how to conduct a needs analysis for an online community, how to develop a team and define goals, and looks at the technical, financial, institutional and social issues involved in designing an online community.
Unit 3 - Options, choices, tools and applications
This unit illustrates a wide range of interactive tools and applications for building an online community, their strengths and weaknesses, and how they affect and the nature of the community.
Unit 4 - Designing an online community
This unit provides guidelines for the design of an online community including introducing online communication in your organization, the professional roles required, the technical choices to be made, and how to plan for marketing, training and evaluation activities.
Unit 5 - Online facilitation
This unit provides guidelines on how to facilitate an online community and introduces the basic concepts of facilitation, compares traditional and online facilitation, and illustrates a wide range of facilitation tasks and techniques.
Tags: onlinecommunity, onlinefacilitation, NPTech, FAO
posted by Nancy White at 8:20 PM
2 Comments:
This is really useful material Nancy. Thanks for the link.
Nancy: I enjoyed reading the end product as well - although it seems so long ago that I worked on my contributions. It is so funny that were both contributors, but didn't know it!
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