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By teacher to help students/teachers embrace web collaboration - tips, websites, etc.

Collaboration Benefits recognises the need to support the voluntary and community sector with collaboration skills. By offering training, Collaboration Benefits aims to reach organisations in the community where the awareness and skills in collaboration are most needed.

"Managing Collaboration The Collaborative Organization: How to Make Employee Networks Really Work By Rob Cross, Peter Gray, Shirley Cunningham, Mark Showers and Robert J. Thomas September 14, 2010 The traditional methods for driving operational excellence in global organizations are not enough. The most effective organizations make smart use of employee networks to reduce costs, improve efficiency and spur innovation. "

This is something Bunny, Christine and Eliz have discovered in their journeys to community cohesion, cameradership and collaboration amongs their learners. As Delightful Dawn (Psycho-therapis) said, it creates a habit of ritual and therefore glues those bonds tighter ;-)

Twiddla tutorial - keeping the tool fresh and live with my charity chums.

The economics of collaboration Vs the need of organisations to justify their existence - fab video. Recommend it! - some of these points I talked with Eliz about. Gets you thinking about developing your relationship with service users.

the mega page containing all talks relating to the rise of collaboration - watch on a rainy day and when you have slack! - you are looking at the fringe of now and what will become "the common sense practices of the future".

Free resources from NCVO about third sector orgs weathering economic crisis by collaborating. Please share :-)

I've just noticed Bassac has funding for involving volunteers in your organisation.

This one needss some inspector gadget work - National institue of health report assessing community engagment approaches - including collaborative methodologies and community champions

this is a "wiki" - will post on my blog something about this - for those who may be new it's at http://www.openspirituality.blogspot.com Wiki's are good for collaborative knowledge structurturing into something that looks like a structure - you've heard of wikipedia right? - it is based on everyone having the ability to 'edit' information and collaboratively making sense of it! - you can choose who to let in - if you want.

Check out the videos!

News: Future builders encouraging early applications for funding to come into effect in june 09 to support inter charity collaboration and mergers. Read and follow throught o futurebuilders.

Bunny, Christine, and Eliz - want to share recipees with the rest of the world and attract interest to your website/web presence? - why not join this stie and get your service users to collaborate with recipees?

"Human Centered Design Toolkit Close For years, companies and other organizations have used Human-Centered Design to arrive at innovative business solutions. Funded by IDE as part of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and in collaboration with non-profit groups ICRW and Heifer International, IDEO relied on this approach to improve the lives of communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The resulting HCD Toolkit helps NGO staff and volunteers understand people's needs in new ways, find innovative solutions to meet these needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind. The free kit is divided into four sections that bolster listening skills, running workshops, and implementing ideas. The HCD Toolkit contains the elements to Human-Centered Design, a process used for decades to create new solutions for multi-national corporations. This process has created ideas such as the HeartStart defibrillator, Cleanwell natural antibacterial products, and the Blood Donor System for the Red Cross--innovations that have enhanced the lives of millions of people. This process has been specially-adapted for NGOs and social enterprises that work with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and compiled into a Toolkit available for download here or for order at cost at www.blurb.com."