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How Do You Use Social Networks to Build One?
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Cauzoo http://www.cauzoo.com Los Angeles |
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If you're building a social network, mailing list, or other social tool, how do you break through a crowded market? With MySpace, Facebook, and a host of new niche social sites popping up, how can you beat the compet... Board Collaboration for PAPIE
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Palo Alto Partners in Education http://pieboard.nexo.com Palo Alto |
Palo Alto Partners in Education (PAPIE) is a primarily board-driven organization with only 2 staff and a budget around $2+ million. We raise private funds to supplement public funds for all the public schools in our school district. Challenge: We needed a tool to ensure communicatio... |
Grassroots Social Justice Event Turnout with Local Leaders
Describe your challenge:
(Note: I'll be in the Bay area in October 2006 and could meet face to face.)
Goal: Find the right combination of Web2.0 tools for a volunteer core group to use to help turnout people for a local social-justice event, scheduled in 3 months.
In just one volunteer network, for example, nationally there are 10,000+ local people, already involved in various communities, to mobilize for particular events.
Tools I have so far:
- WhizSpark event website summarizes the event, displays photos and fosters interaction through e-mail invitations. This page then serves as an event artifact.
- PR Web press release distribution.
Tools I need:
A local community network and project-oriented collaborative web space. Coordinators first learn to use this at a local face-to-face meeting. Then together for 3 months they utilize it asynchronously to help build participation for a successful event. The website would include simplified workplace e-tools and short videos, appropriate for busy volunteers.
Its purpose is social facilitation: to encourage people to perform better at simple tasks when they know they're observing one another. Tasks include extending personal invitations to attend the event, listening and engaging others to participate based on their particular interests and gifts. See: 12 Guiding Principles of Community Engagement.
WhizSpark invitation websites produce Excel spreadsheets. I want to mash up and report invitations sent, etc. graphically in the collaborative web space for others to see. Bar charts and a campaign thermometer would help build campaign momentum by representing:
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Event invitations sent so far
- RSVPs received
- 1-on-1 Visit (survey) results, represented with tags.
Simplified, volunteer-appropriate features in collaborative web space might also facilitate:
- mailing list (spreadsheet) display
- project management
- document downloads
- a discussion forum.
Today there is a downward spiral of civic apathy. Our national stockpile of social capital -- our reserve of personal bonds and fellowship -- is seriously depleted. We need democratic social-capital strategies like this to enable busy people to act bettertogether.
There's also a market for such event-organizing tools. Example: school reunions. But on this wetpaint.com High-School reunion wiki notice the last comment: Poor planning.
Web2.0 tools could help facilitate more effectively-planned events by supporting grassroots coordinators online to engage and mobilize busy people.
Mac Johnson psmcovky at usa.net
New Richmond, Ohio (Cincinnati area)
"...Remember me as a drum major for justice." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
Women Get Tech'ed
Describe your challenge:
At the Gender session there was call to get women together to support one another learning more technology skills. A Drupal women's group? Pingvision and floatleft.com
I'd like to be part of that group. Would you? Leave your link, email, as a comment to this post and we'll figure out how to make it happen.
Erica Rios
ericar@anitaborg.org
Wireless Networking in the Developing World
http://www.wndw.net/ The web |
The massive popularity of wireless networking has caused equipment costs to continually plummet, while equipment capabilities continue to increase. By applying this technology in areas that are badly in need of critical communications infrastructure, more people can be brought online than ever ... |
Arts Engine
Arts Engine, Inc. www.artsengine.net New York City |
Arts Engine, Inc. supports, produces, and distributes independent media of consequence and promotes the use of independent media by advocates, educators and the general public. By fostering the production and use of independent film, video and new media, Arts Engine connects media makers and acti... |
Volvox
Multiple (see project description) www.eurovolvox.org Reading, England |
The Volvox project is a new project created in response to the EC call: FP6-2003-Science and Society-5. The official title is: 'Co-ordinated internet-linked networks for promoting innovation, exchangin... |
Rural Innovation Network
rinovations.org/ India |
Rural Innovations Network is an innovation network for the rural world in India. Based in Chennai, south-east coast, the RIN helps to ‘move’ products created “from� and “for� rural zones. For example, someone decides to upgrade or design a new tool for a... |
The Triangle Area YMCA
many vendors and consultants have supported this project netsquared.org/blog/michaelatmo/managing-tech |
With 12 branches and program offices in the Raleigh-Durham area, and 2 residential camps several hours away on the coast, this North Carolina YMCA faced serious challenges in its information technology infrastructure. Connectivity, bandwidth, software management, hardware maintenance, user suppor... |
Tools for Online Collaboration
Describe your challenge:
What are some examples of low-cost, easy to learn tools for online collaboration and project management?
