I met up last week with MT. Rainey the pioneer behind a new charity and soon to be launched online mentoring service called, Horse’s Mouth. MT has raised funds from Edge.co.uk and the Russell Commission to build a new website and platform. It’s billed as e-mentoring but as we talked she explained [...]
Pledger Jan Leeman alerted me to this excellent service. E-clips from Cornell University. It’s currently being used on the ground in Armenia by the Women’s Business Society. This is another good example of how publishing experience to share can support global mentoring.
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One of the great things that happened at TED for me was that pledger Sam Ajluni from BBDO Detroit introduced himself and showed me some logos he has designed for our embryonic organisation …on his ipod! Tantalisingly fast I have to say, I never got his ipod in my hands! Amazing how [...]
pledger Amy Nicholls is busy starting her new company Quandree.com but found time to visit me in London before she moves to Switzerland in June for six months. She wants to help out by researching some of the offers we have been made by projects on the ground with potential mentees to be, or [...]
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I’m getting emails from pledgers offering ideas and thoughts for us. Russell Davies is a man of many sites. He has found that many planners around the world in small agencies never get any good training and just have to make stuff up on their own - so he started the Account [...]
Sometimes I see stuff at work (BBC) before it gets released and that is very exciting, but occasionally it is breathtaking. I got to a presentation of the researchers at the Technical University of Delft (organised by Tom Loosemore) about their new release of something called Tribler. Tribler adds a level of [...]
NetSquared is great…Marhsall Kirkpatrick, a pledger, blogs there. He contacted me via Google Talk to see if there was anything he could do to help? Like there are so many things…but to start off he suggested some nifty reputation tracking so I can see if and how people are writing about this site [...]
Have you seen Howard Rheingold’s latest project? Cooperationcommons.org has launched a blog and importantly summaries of key texts in this area. I’m signing up to be part of this! If we are about anything it will be cooperation and how we at Mentoring Worldwide , a new community of people [...]
Lovely email from pledger Shivangi Walke in Zurich to let me know she was doing a course in facilitating online communities and offering potentially to help us out when she had completed the course. I asked her which course it was and it turns out to be a Full Circle course ran by Nancy [...]
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