All Blog Posts Tagged 'creative commons' (11)

Incorporating communications into other activities & services

Telecentre networks implement a range of activities and services that can be augmented by incorporating communications. These include publications, events, study tours, and helpdesks. In designing these activities, remember to incorporate communications. How can you make it visible? How can you share and document? Set aside enough time and resources to contribute to the stream and help your members to do the same. You will quickly reap the benefits of your investment as key supporters and partne… Continue

Added by Christine Prefontaine on December 1, 2008 at 9:46pm — No Comments

Connect to global initiatives: Create a strong presence on telecentre.org

Make sure your network is prominent in the global sphere, especially important if you want to reach international supporters. For telecentre networks this is easy to do: • Create a profile page on telecentre.org with feeds and links to your website — and help your members to the same • Provide network RSS feeds to a telecentre.org Community Facilitator so that they can promote your content • Add your best content to… Continue

Added by Christine Prefontaine on December 1, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

The building blocks

To think about communications holistically, map out how information will flow between publics: support team, network members, supporters. Write a simple, action-oriented plan that outlines: Internal practices and systems Support team members should agree on the collaborative structures, processes, and activities that they will need to adopt to work effectively and efficiently. (The team, be it a formal secretariat with paid employees or a loose group of volunteers, should look inward, to… Continue

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Create a strong online presence

Your online presence starts with your website. But it also includes making yourself visible in all the places your publics go: other organizations’ websites, social networks, portals, blogs, forums, and email groups. When developing an online strategy start by researching what already exists and where your members already go. To cut costs and maximize reach look for opportunities to build on, leverage, and complement existing efforts. What can you contribute to? What partnerships can you form?… Continue

Added by Christine Prefontaine on December 1, 2008 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Invest in a Community Facilitator

Networks need a support team to coordinate, motivate, and carry the ball for busy people. For some networks the support team is made up of paid staff working as a secretariat. For others it is informal and volunteer-based. Support team roles can include: • Leaders — People with the power to convene and the charisma to rally members around a common vision. • Managers — People responsible for overall administration and coordination. Managers develop and implement work plans, maintai… Continue

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Provide regular updates

Touch base regularly with members via email. You don’t need to send much — share content you find exciting, practical, or inspirational. The goal here is to engage members and build a sense of community. Topics may include: • Number of members and their characteristics • Most active discussions (either from forums or comments to blog posts) • Summaries of debates — what’s controversial? Where do members disagree? • Links to new or most popular content (blogs, resources, multimedia) • New member… Continue

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Maintain a member directory

Creating and maintaining a member directory defines the network, makes it tangible, and provides a concrete service. Gather basic facts from each member: contact information, interests, activities, partners. You may also use the process as an opportunity to learn more about member practices, assets, and preferences — information you can use to develop or update your communications strategy. These include: • Internet access — What type of access do your members have? • Preferences — Where… Continue

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Create an information kit

Create a simple information kit for new members and external publics. It can be in electronic format and posted on your website. Include: • A fact sheet with your vision, mission, activities, number of members, number of telecentres, number of people served (use the information collected for the member directory). For guidance on clarifying vision and mission see IDRC’s Outcome Mapping Guide. • Examples of program and success st… Continue

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[nět'wûrk'] noun. A community of purpose sustained by communication.

A network is a community of purpose — a group of organizations and individuals that come together to achieve common goals. Reasons for creating networks include: Exchange information and learn from one another People form networks to share ideas, experiences, solutions, and information; to learn about each other’s activities, strategies, and programs; and to identify best practices and innovative ways to address common problems Coordinate approaches, programs, and activities Thro… Continue

Added by Christine Prefontaine on December 1, 2008 at 8:30pm — No Comments

The eavesdropping model

Communications and knowledge sharing are often treated as if they are separate things. In reality, however, they are points along a continuum — two aspects of the flows of information to, from, and between the publics upon whom an organization’s success depends. It’s all about getting the right content to the right people at the right time. Similarly, much communications planning focuses exclusively on external publics. But the actions of internal publics (and in particular the network’s leaders… Continue

Added by Christine Prefontaine on December 1, 2008 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Network Communications Guide

This post is the first in a series that together form a basic guide to communications for telecentre networks. The guide is simple: It starts with a quick overview: what a network is, why we choose work through networks, and the role of communications. It then proposes “the eavesdropping model” — a new way of approa… Continue

Added by Christine Prefontaine on December 1, 2008 at 8:00pm — 9 Comments

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There are plenty of topics for this list. All of them diverse and relevant, but first the Foundation should focus on consolidation and multiplication of what TC.org has done well up to this point. There is lots of value in corroborating the answer...

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Miguel Raimilla replied to telecentre.org's discussion 'Question 5: What are the challenges and priorities for telecentre networks in the next five years? And what role can telecentre.org Foundation play?' in the group Online Consultation 2009

Here my list: 1.- Telecentro 2.0 = Professional, Accountable, 100% Reliable, and Timely *The telecenter networks should take serious, concrete steps towards having more professional operations. This implies giving attention to ALL the details of ...

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The Foundation should be able to increase its influence, as long as it can demonstrate that it is leading a global diverse network of telecentres and that it is capable of well-coordinated collaborations. Acting often as one unique body, the telec...

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Miguel Raimilla replied to telecentre.org's discussion 'Question 1: What new themes do you think telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) should be working in the future?' in the group Online Consultation 2009

There are plenty of topics for this list. All of them diverse and relevant, but first the Foundation should focus on consolidation and multiplication of what TC.org has done well up to this point. There is lots of value in corroborating the answer...

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The success of Shilpa Sayura in up-scaling and replicating its 20 pilot Telecenters into 150 Telecenters in less than 3 years is indeed very remarkable. With that, I could say that the people behind Shilpa Sayura really did some honest-to-goodness...

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Jimmy L. Calata replied to telecentre.org's discussion 'Question 2: How to make the telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) more influential on behalf of telecentre movement?' in the group Online Consultation 2009

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Jimmy L. Calata replied to telecentre.org's discussion 'Question 2: How to make the telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) more influential on behalf of telecentre movement?' in the group Online Consultation 2009

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Jimmy L. Calata replied to telecentre.org's discussion 'Question 2: How to make the telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) more influential on behalf of telecentre movement?' in the group Online Consultation 2009

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Jimmy L. Calata replied to telecentre.org's discussion 'Question 2: How to make the telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) more influential on behalf of telecentre movement?' in the group Online Consultation 2009

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