Full Circle

One of the themes of my research conversations and meetings is about the “place” the work happens, or where does work happen? When I went to Netsquared to meet likeminded people in the US with the impression that the non-profit and tech sectors combined with philanthropy and funders was so better organised there I [...]

Nata Village Blog

Pledger Curt Hopkins alerted me recently to the Nata Village Blog, and put Jon Rawlinson in touch with us at MW.
Jon and I finally met this week and he told me how his travels in Africa, videoblogging along the way have changed his life.
Stopping off in a remote village in Botswana he chanced [...]

comparing models

One of the many things I said I would do is look at different existing mentoring and mentoring-type organisations. Thanks to M.T.Rainey of Horses’ Mouth and Gideon Lyons of Unltd for sending me these two remarkably different types of examples.
Nabuur.com is a Netherlands-based charity whose novel idea is to create online villages around specific projects [...]

cooperative downloading

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 to the rescue!

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 [...]

we are all about cooperation…

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 [...]

the pledge list is working….

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 [...]