Global JAM on Online Communities for Social Innovation
Back home and buckling down on the next set of activities -- one is lending a hand for the Global JAM on Online Communities for Social Innovation. If you are interested in social change and innovation, I encourage you to participate in this (FREE) event coming up next week. The "price of admission" is filling out a survey by the 15th, so jump on this now! Here are all the details...
July 18-19, Global JAM on Online Communities for Social Innovation
You are invited to the first Global JAM on Online Communities for Social Innovation, July 18-19 . A JAM is an online discussion that is time limited, asynchronous, moderated, and subsequently analyzed.
The goal of this event is to collectively identify technology requirements for effective online communities to better support those working in social change and innovation. The intention is to share what we learn quickly and broadly.
Online communities are changing the work we do and how we do it. They are creating new avenues for learning and innovating. They drive new models of leadership.
Today's technologies while plentiful are not inventoried, and overall not adequate for the needs of the social sector. The goal of this JAM is to help the sector use online community tools more effectively and to help technologists to build more appropriate tools. Through this discussion we hope to create a shared vision of our collective future for online communities for social change and innovation.
Participants will include leaders of nonprofit, NGO, public sector and grantmaking organizations, researchers and academics, technologists, and consultants from around the world. All use or plan to use online communities for social innovation.
We hope you will join us in this important conversation. The "Price of Admission" is completing the short survey at http://tinyurl.com/36cqk7 by July 15.
The JAM will be analyzed and synthesized in the form of a "white paper" that you will have the opportunity to participate in writing. You will receive a final copy, though we imagine it to be more of a living, changing piece. The paper will list all the JAM participants (unless you do not want to be identified).
You will have access to the JAM site, kpublic.net, shortly after you have completed the survey. The JAM agenda, discussion topics and structure, and other details can be found there.
The JAM is sponsored by the following Organizations: Knowledge in the Public Interest, Impact Alliance, OneWorld, PACT Latin America, Kabissa, Full Circle Associates, and The Learning Catalyst.
posted by Nancy White at 9:06 AM
2 Comments:
This jam is great and has introduced me to your blog which I am adding to my personal bookmarks.
Ron
Thanks, Ron! It was great to "meet" you and the others as well. I'm looking forward to the next step of "sensemaking" of all the amazing conversation.
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