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Re: #4change #socent event & social media lessons shared from Amanda Jones @OxfordJam

Kevindoylejones — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:06:36 -0000

I like the fact that you are sharing what works and what you are not sure worked, or might still work. It's all a work in progress

Re: #i4c Practical Uses of Twitter: lunchtime training @HubBrussels 17 Dec

sureshfernando — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:24:21 -0000

Hey Christine,

Thanks for the prompt response. If you have time and a more specific
understanding of what is going on, here are a few documents to check out:

Paper describing the theory:
http://www.slideshare.net/s...
Open Manufacturing Ecosystem:
https://spreadsheets.google...
Open Government Ecosystem:
https://spreadsheets.google...

Are working on funding processes in both of the above ecosystems.

I look forward to your thoughts.

Suresh

Re: #i4c Practical Uses of Twitter: lunchtime training @HubBrussels 17 Dec

Christina — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:16:45 -0000

Hi Suresh,

thanks for the reminder to engage with OpenKollab. I've JUST returned from some extended travel and will try to dig in in the next few days. Eager to learn more about your collaborative funding strategy & other efforts. All the best!

Re: #i4c Practical Uses of Twitter: lunchtime training @HubBrussels 17 Dec

sureshfernando — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:10:05 -0000

Hi Christina,

This project seems amazing and I'd love to chat with you about OpenKollab (http://mudball.net/openkoll.... We are currently developing a collaborative funding strategy to finance early stage social entrepreneurs. Details can be found at: http://www.slideshare.net/s...

We are an open collaboration environment that also has a very active discussion group focusing on how to utilize collaboration principles to bring about positive social change. You can check it out and/or join at: http://groups.google.ca/gro...

Re: New blog look underway with Headway Themes

Becky Crook — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:12:10 -0000

Hi Christina,

Just one feedback on the look of the new blog! The yellow header text can be a bit difficult to read on many computer screens. Do you have the capability to make it either another color or a darker shade of yellow? Otherwise, I think it looks great!

Re: New blog look underway with Headway Themes

Grant Griffiths — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:28:36 -0000

Glad to see you on board with Headway. Keep us posted if you have any questions or comments too.

Re: New blog look underway with Headway Themes

John Powers — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:51:32 -0000

Wow that didn't take long! I love the look and functionality of the site.

Re: 5 pillars to uphold a new wwworld (part 1 of 4)

sallyduros — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:39:39 -0000

Thanks for this, Christina. maybe I will work along with you. I have been less than strategic in my wwwworld too, but would like to be more intentional in what I do. I too have been very active on the web over the past decade plus and have seen some amazing things come from the relationships I have started online.

Re: 5 pillars to uphold a new wwworld (part 1 of 4)

Afrika Kabissa — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:01:18 -0000

Hi Christina - I'm glad to be reconnected with you again through facebook - it's been a while since we have been in contact and I am glad to see you are still thriving.

This is a really thoughtful post, and timely as well as many of us seek to figure out how to use evolving social media. I like your invented notion of wwworld and appreciate the 5 pillars you've identified for yourself. For us at Kabissa I think it's going to be http://kabissa.org, http://twitter.com/kabissa and http://facebook.com/kabissa - at the moment that seems to be where our community is congregating and that's all we have the capacity to maintain.

I would welcome it of you would cross-post this series of posts on Kabissa if you are interested in sharing these insights also in the Kabissa network. You can add your organisation to our database and then a group for blogging.

In solidarity,

Tobias

Re: Let’s collaborate to collaborate better

thallman — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:16:53 -0000

Christina,
Info is ready. How to contact you? Send email advising.

Re: Let’s collaborate to collaborate better

thallman — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:29:08 -0000

Hi Christina,
At the moment, we (my org) are experimenting with three CMS platforms. (Not WordPress.)

The problem with WordPress isn't the technical platform itself. The problem is that WordPress also hosts WP-branded sites that are often illegal from one direction or another: copyright violations, for example. I've seen an entire news website built over the years by a group of hard-working folks, some of whom are friends, only to have the content plagiarized and duplicated on WordPress. Contacts with WordPress were -- well, there's no one to contact. Inevitably, as more cybercriminals appear looking for safe, unregulated haven, WP will have more and more of them, thus diluting and undermining anything with the WP brand. Google is at about the same place with its blogger.com mess.

I'll let you know of test results as they come in. We should have some results over this weekend.

Re: Let’s collaborate to collaborate better

christina — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:34:08 -0000

Thanks for your comment Terry.

The intent here was to start at internet4change with as blank a slate as possible - wordpress enables basic communication at this beginning stage, and I have deliberately started without configuring anything. Any collaboration system we build should be able to accomodate/integrate it (since so many people use it), but I don't know yet whether wordpress can/will be the basis for constructing a system. If you have a suggestion for a more appropriate blogging tool or platform to build on, please toss it into the thought mix constructively!

Re: Let’s collaborate to collaborate better

T. Hallman — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:45:50 -0000

Okay. Let's collaborate. Caveats elsewhere, you know where.

"Collaboration in our sector can be amazing. It can also be disappointing if it’s not designed and managed well."

Agreed. WordPress is not only an insecure platform, it is entirely unregulated and unmanaged. Therefore, it is better to proceed elsewhere. I've seen entire websites replicated on WordPress, despite copyright laws, replete with identity hijackings and sock puppetry.

Your idea is good, but this platform is a bad idea. Anything goes here, so nothing can be taken very seriously.

Re: Founder’s Statement

i4c — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:09:35 -0000

Charles, you pick up on an excellent point. I also see clearly that getting conversations going on more than one site at once is key. I actually think that's a function of the web that we need to be able to better create and manage as social entrepreneurs on a regular basis. One of the things I will be doing here is developing a model "profile" type page that uses existing web2.0 tools to help us do that. Thanks for embracing the idea at your SocialEdge event as well.

Wilfried, lovely to see you here, my dear friend. Rest assured that a lot of my answer to "why" on most of the things I do comes directly or indirectly from my experience with changemakers like you and the challenges to engaging online that I know you face.

Re: Founder’s Statement

Wilfried van der Veen — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:42:57 -0000

Hi Christina,
Many greetings from our small Ugandan town, Kabale, !
For a long time i have been wondering what all the activities of LIA, internet4Change etc where about. Having poor internet connection makes it often difficult to keep up with all the information flow. To be honest, your founders statement give me a complete new insight.
it seems to me that your shift to Brussels has given you new and refreshing environment.
I am still going on with Amasiko, wondering how to bring social change into this so terribly conservative environment and people main focus is on getting "money" only.
Lets hope Amasiko can become a small piece in the Better World Building puzzle here in Uganda.
Many greetings
Wilfried

Re: Founder’s Statement

Charles Cameron (hipbone) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:35:11 -0000

Hi Christina:

I just saw your response to the event on SocialEdge and hurried here to raed your post and thank you. I'm delighted, of course, that you visited the event and commented there, and also that you've posted here -- but perhaps the best part of all was your final phrase: "Let's discuss both here and there."

I've been giving a lot of thought to what can bring a conversational site through the stages from isolated posts > frequent responses > friendly network of conversations > active community with collaborations afoot, and it seems to me that getting conversations going at more than one site at once is one key stage.

At SocialEdge, we've had a joint conversation with the folks at Public Innovators, and now you've opened up a second possibility here -- I'm extremely grateful.

I'm not sure yet what you are planning here, but I hope you'll keep us informed on both sites!

Thanks again, Charles