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Think big, start small, act now
Dear All,
Think big:
The WASH social network http://www.MyWASH.org went live technically:
- the URL is set;
- there is enough bandwidth / storage space;
- the unneccesary links are removed;
- no more advertisement.
The aim of MyWASH is: The MyWASH social network is a major arena and communication back-bone in the WASH development sector connecting information and knowledge-able members for universal access and use. See http://www.mywash.org/page/mywash-mission. I kindly invite you to contribute and help.
Start small:
I kindly invite you to sign in / sign up and fill out your profile.
Once logged in you can change your settings (http://www.mywash.org/profiles/settings/editProfileInfo).
Also you have control over 'privacy', Email' and 'Your page'.
Please have a look, most is self-explanatory and help is at http://help.ning.com.
When needed contact me for help (or Ewen / Nick / Harry).
Act now:
Second I would like you to start a group (http://www.mywash.org/groups) around the service / product you manage:
- Bettie on 'Library services' or 'Digital library'
- Ingeborg on 'Q&A' (http://www.mywash.org/group/qanda), 'Thesaurus' etc
- Cor / Dick for Source (http://www.mywash.org/group/source)
- etc
If you are done with the above you can start inviting colleagues in- and outside IRC to the network.
This is the first small step to get this MyWASH network populated. If there are issues just post them on http://www.mywash.org/forum/topics/this-mywash-social-network. Together with reply / answers this will grow into a Q&A :-)
For any question contact me. I will organize monthly sessions for Q&A and review soonest.
Best, Jaap
Think big:
The WASH social network http://www.MyWASH.org went live technically:
- the URL is set;
- there is enough bandwidth / storage space;
- the unneccesary links are removed;
- no more advertisement.
The aim of MyWASH is: The MyWASH social network is a major arena and communication back-bone in the WASH development sector connecting information and knowledge-able members for universal access and use. See http://www.mywash.org/page/mywash-mission. I kindly invite you to contribute and help.
Start small:
I kindly invite you to sign in / sign up and fill out your profile.
Once logged in you can change your settings (http://www.mywash.org/profiles/settings/editProfileInfo).
Also you have control over 'privacy', Email' and 'Your page'.
Please have a look, most is self-explanatory and help is at http://help.ning.com.
When needed contact me for help (or Ewen / Nick / Harry).
Act now:
Second I would like you to start a group (http://www.mywash.org/groups) around the service / product you manage:
- Bettie on 'Library services' or 'Digital library'
- Ingeborg on 'Q&A' (http://www.mywash.org/group/qanda), 'Thesaurus' etc
- Cor / Dick for Source (http://www.mywash.org/group/source)
- etc
If you are done with the above you can start inviting colleagues in- and outside IRC to the network.
This is the first small step to get this MyWASH network populated. If there are issues just post them on http://www.mywash.org/forum/topics/this-mywash-social-network. Together with reply / answers this will grow into a Q&A :-)
For any question contact me. I will organize monthly sessions for Q&A and review soonest.
Best, Jaap
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Permalink Reply by Russell Kerkhoven on
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on behalf of Nick ...
Dear Jaap and INCOers,
Congratulations for getting this started. It would be good if a small group of INCOers could help think about the interface of the Ning group. I hope that I am not repeating anything obvious that may have already been discussed at the INCO meeting.
Right now it is messy from both a design perspective (to make it outwardly attractive to use) and \ the basic information that people should receive or see when they first log into the network. People should immediately get an idea of what they can do/explore/use/download/upload.
Also it would be good to come up with some kind of identity (what does this network do/what is it) and branding for the MyWash products and IRC info products.
Russell, perhaps a workshop along the lines of the one that we did with Triple-S would be useful? It will be important to get this right if we want the whole sector to become involved. We should at least have a uniform vision at IRC.
Greetings from Ghana (finally made it after 14 hours parked in 2 different planes at Heathrow...).
Nick
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Jaap commented on Nick's proposal to include this in a regular Q and A session. As i attended the same 1 day work session with Nick at ThinkAgainMedia, nick suggestion is actually to plan for a more focussed exercise that also requires more time. We might be able to it in less time, it would still require at least 1/2 day to be able to come up with a short story line that clearly explains the ambitions of MyWASH. In our travel report I have explained some of the basic exercises involved, if Nick chips his story we can hopefully make this contribution to MyWASH.
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Permalink Reply by Nicolas Dickinson on -
Hi Russell,
Thanks for posting my reply. I will now work on our report and let's post it here when it is done. It should illustrate what we did pretty well in terms of process.
Cheers,
Nick
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Permalink Reply by Jaap Pels Global on -
Hi All,
Sorry to confuse you if I do, but I wonder if this message thread should not be direct on e-mail. I made an email group mywash@googlegroups.com.
In the current situation a message is made / thread started, and e-mail is narrow casted to group members apart from users opting out. Opting out / in is offered below every message!
The email is read and included / referencing links to threads are clicked. On line; messages are read and responded on; generating the above mentioned narrow casting.
On second though I think this way is better then broad casting though Google groups. The difference is made by narrow or broad casting; Google groups are just broad casting. When wanted / done by users the same discussion can run both on MyWASH and groups; redundancy is a reason to connect threads / networks. Boundary spanners help here. Ultimately the community decide where the discussion threads runs.
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Yes, this is confusing. You invite us to start a discussion, once done, you reverse the order and give an explanation that is abstract, content wise off -topic and introduces further terms, that have little to do with the proposed direction of the discussion. My response to this is: Let's just pull the plug on this.
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Permalink Reply by Jaap Pels Global on
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Russell,
As said, the community will decode where the discussion will run. Pulling the plug I understand as NOT discuss this aspect further. I do ccontinue to publish her on the development of the network.
Cheers, Jaap
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Permalink Reply by Jaap Pels Global on
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Whether it describes the G8, anti-globalisation protest movements, Facebook or al-Qaeda, the word ‘network’ is among the most ubiquitous and pervasive of buzz-words. But is it more than simply buzz? What do networks actually do, and how do they work? An ODI working paper of 2009 on networks.
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