Hi all,

I am the CEO of the Dutch foundation Stichting GeefGratis which is one of the partners of the Dutch TechSoup program. TechSoup The Netherlands is run in partnership between TechSoup Global, Socialware and Stichting GeefGratis. Stichting GeefGratis is a Dutch NGO and charitable foundation (ANBI) that offers free to use internet services to 2.500+ NGO's in the Netherlands. My professional priorities within TechSoup the Netherlands lie in outreach models.

At the Dutch e-collaboration blog, Maaike van Steenhoven has posted the conclusions of her interviews with about 15 development organizations about the introduction of new tools for e-collaboration: http://icollaborate.blogspot.com/2006/11/findings.html

She describes the overall phase Dutch NGOs are in, concerning the implementation of e-collaboration in their work and how they became enthusiastic.  Then she describes the implementation stage of the various new tools that were introduced (ranging from moodle to social bookmarking). How did people start looking for the right tool, how did they approach and convince others and how are they planning for the future? She also presents an overview of the benefits e-collaboration brought to the people who are experimenting with it and the difficulties they encountered in the broadest way.

Interested in e-collaboration? Joitske Hulsebosch, author of the blog, Communities of Practice for Development, wrote Beth Kanter and I to tell us about a new blog she is a part of called I collaborate, e-collaborate, we collaborate.  Joitske is co-facilitating an e-collaboration group of  Dutch NGOs  that  decided to launch a blog last month to complement their online space and f2f meetings.   The purpose of the blog is to share personal stories about working over the Internet.