The N2Y4 Conference brought together innovators and entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations and funders, all to connect with each other and help selected winners in the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge from the cast of 14 Featured Projects.  There were sessions, pitches, how-tos and open space connections.  It was a packed couple days, filled with a-ha moments, new ideas, and open questions to continue exploring after the event had finished.

The N2Y4 Conference brought together innovators and entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations and funders, all to connect with each other and help selected winners in the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge from the cast of 14 Featured Projects.   There were sessions, pitches, how-tos and open space connections.   It was a packed couple days, filled with a-ha moments, new ideas, and open questions to continue exploring after the event had finished.

The NetSquared team pulled together all of those ideas and questions and filtered them into the N2Y4 Feedback Forum to keep the conversation moving forward.   This is the first of a series of blog posts highlighting some of the ideas and hot topics from the Feedback Forum.   (You can visit the Feedback Forum here!)

How can we improve collaboration?

By far, the open question with the most interest asks "how can we improve collaboration?"   This is certainly not a new question but it is an important one to publicly discuss.   NetSquared is a community-drive project in all that we do.   We want to explore, with you, how we can facilitate collaboration and help promote it, both as a network and platform for the collaboration but also as a participant.

Improving and expanding opportunities for collaboration was a big topic at N2Y4. Whether it is project-to-project, funder-to-project, volunteer/ally-to-project, or n2y4 participant-to-participant, this topic came up repeatedly in the conference reflection sessions.

What do you think?

Here are some of the questions that participants at N2Y4 asked; we would love to hear more reactions and ideas!

• How can we recognize and reward Project teams that find with ways to collaborate with one another?
• Why don't Projects, innovators, developers (whomever is creating new tools and opportunities) already know each other?   How do we make introductions?
• How can we help sustain our engagement? (Whether you participated in the conference or not, whether you part of a Project team or not.)

There are many more questions and examples we can highlight but we want to hear from you about what issues or ideas are the most important when improving mechanisms and process for collaboration in this sector.   Let us know what you think!

To dive into this conversation, you can either leave a comment here on the NetSquared blog or you can visit the N2Y4 Feedback Forum (running on UserVoice) and comment, share, and vote for ideas.   Visit the Feedback Forum here!