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Permalink Reply by Urmo Kübar on March 3, 2011 at 10:58

Btw, Louise, what is the data NCVO has started to release? And do you have already examples of someone doing useful things with this data?

Permalink Reply by Louise Brown on March 3, 2011 at 10:34

** I just wanted to pop into the discussion to say that the case studies are starting at

http://www.participationforchange.org/group/econference3rdmarch/for... and http://www.participationforchange.org/group/econference3rdmarch/for... **

Permalink Reply by Alenka on March 3, 2011 at 10:36

Sharing experience is important! But - as a youth worker I miss more interactive web tools. Internet games, secound life things, sth entertaining as well as educational!

Permalink Reply by Somanah Achadoo on March 3, 2011 at 10:40

Alenka:

 

Good to see you here. But your comment did make me laugh. Yes, I agree on the above.

Permalink Reply by Catherine Hislop on March 3, 2011 at 15:50

I have aFRENCH FILM DIRECTOR ON BOARD MY ORGANISATION WHO IS INTERESTED IN DEVELPING EDUCATIONAL VIDOES

Permalink Reply by Sakthi Suriyaprakasam on March 3, 2011 at 10:58

Hi Alenka,

I agree, especially as I think engaging young people is probably more likely if we used more of this. Do you know of any interactive tools that are also educational?

Permalink Reply by Christiana Weidel on March 3, 2011 at 10:43

In Austria, we use facebook, youtube and twitter to communicate common aims and project ideas about volunteering this year, in the frame of a project with the Social Ministry! It is great to see what really matters for people WORKING with volunteers, but opening discussion was like a box of Pandora :-) when feelings, emotions and all kinds of thoughts came out, like: why do you talk about volunteering when so much work of NGOs is not paid? As one of the consequences of unsolved problems around us, we wanted to focus on POSITIVE examples for the community but immediately comments came up saying we are living on a cloud...

Permalink Reply by Sakthi Suriyaprakasam on March 3, 2011 at 10:56

Hi I really liked your example of what happens when you open up discussions. I do think its a symptom of frustration about not being heard that makes people focus on the negatives - and there should be a space for this. As long as it moves on to look at the way forward eventually...

Permalink Reply by Joe Z Mairura on March 3, 2011 at 10:52

Hi

have  hada cahnce to  scan throguh  your replies  to Sakthi's  questionsand I am in agreement with all of them.

there is always roon room to learn form others or even to hear what you know  expressed  in a different way which often  leads to  reflection and call  to innovative action.

this is one way of doing it; but as some of you have alraedy said  nothing replaces  face to face sharing.. but we have to start somewhre.

looking forward to learning something new today.

Permalink Reply by Catherine Hislop on March 3, 2011 at 11:22

I think it is very important to work in collaboration

Permalink Reply by Christiana Weidel on March 3, 2011 at 11:53

I agreee, collaboration is more and more important especially when funding is cut down as we have seen it here in Austria: Some of the big organisations - who always had been competitors in the social and health councelling sector - suddenly at one point started to share an office! And next step was to bid together for a real big project... We were fascinated, how fast this kind of new relationship was advancing and brought money for both of them. Collaboration is the key fo NGOs today, I would say. But it needs more than the wish, it needs a clearly visible and concrete purpose to start, I would summarize our experiences, which btw were also influenced a lot by a very useful project done with ACN in Rome, you can read the report here, still very valuable what they found out about collaboration and partnership for CSR!: www.activecitizenship.net/images/stories/DOCS/building%20CSR/report...

Permalink Reply by Sakthi Suriyaprakasam on March 3, 2011 at 12:00

Hi I support collaboration here in England, and would love to hear more about how well its working in other countries. Let's keep talking today

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