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 [...]
wish I had spotted this sooner..but for any of you (residents of the US only) who have the time in the next two weeks and want to make a short video about tolerance , why not win $100,000 and give $15,000 to a charity of your choice.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pledger Curt Hopkins is launching a new blog project in Botswana. It’s a project to increase HIV/AIDS education in the African country of Botswana through blogging and is the kind of project which could yield wonderful and important results in its own right but also could lead to new projects which would benefit from [...]
thanks to the Guardian…a concept for us.
Locating an appropriate mentor isn’t easy. There are no mail-order catalogues displaying a range of besuited CEOs with come-hither expressions. You cannot score mentoring from a street hoodlum or bid for it on eBay
This project has been described as a social marketplace…a public utlity, [...]
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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collection was created by Dr. Deborah Streeter and contains thousands of [...]
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