Dgroups Activities Report 2015 and Plan 2016
With two new partners joining during the year, at the end of 2105 the Dgroups Partnership counts 24 member organizations and it is stronger at the end of 2015 than at the beginning of the year. The recently published Activities Report 2015 and Plan 2016 highlights the work areas around which the Dgroups Board focused its …
Dgroups webinar – Maintaining and troubleshooting your online community
The third and final Dgroups Communities Webinar took place on 15 June 2015 and focused on how to maintain and troubleshoot your online community. Facilitated by Lucie Lamoureux (KM4D Associates) the webinar was designed mostly as a peer-assist session. Two participants presented two case studies, illustrating the challenges they face in maintaining their communities of …
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Dgroups webinar – Developing and supporting your Dgroup
After the first Dgroups Communities webinar held last month, this week we organized the second event in this series of three online webinars. The theme for this session was how to develop and support an online community. Facilitated by Lucie Lamoureux (KM4D Associates) the session was designed around three presentation blocks of about 12 minutes, …
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Dgroups Activities Report 2014
With six new partners joining in 2014, the Dgroups Partnership counts now 22 member organizations and it is stronger at the end of 2014 than at the beginning of the year. The recently published Activities Report 2014 highlights the work areas around which the Dgroups Board focused its operation in 2014, and the results achieved. …
Three new organizations join Dgroups
We’re delighted to announce that over the past weeks three new organizations have joined the Dgroups partnership: the Tropical Health & Education Trust (THET), The Broker Online and Enda Energie. Based in London, THET is a specialist global health organisation working for over 20 years to educates, train and supports health workers through partnerships. This principle is central to …
Top Dgroups functionality requests and recent platform enhancement
Since several months now, we have revised our approach for functionality improvement. The new approach decentralises all identification and discussion of functionality improvements to the [redesign] Dgroups, which is open for anyone to join. Currently, the group counts 34 active and engaged members, including Damir Simunic for WA-Research, representatives of the Dgroups Board, Dgroup admins …
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Dgroups Activities Report 2013
In August 2013, Dgroups counts 2.297 communities, with around 167.691 registered users. It delivers around 400.000 email messages each day. The Dgroups Foundation is committed to make Dgroups accessible and affordable to all development organisations. To fulfill its responsibilities, the Board of the Dgroups Foundation prioritized seven work areas in 2013: Platform improvement Service reliability Users’ support for optimum use …
Dgroups.org is restored to normal service
The Dgroups.org website was down over the weekend, apparently due to a temporary technical problem with the Internet Service Provider, which is now fixed. Thanks to the prompt intervention of WA-Research over the weekend, we are now back online. All messages sent during the down-time should be queued normally, so no specific actions are required …
Dgroups Board approves new membership structure
At the Dgroups Annual Partners meeting earlier this year, Dgroups members discussed how to increase the annual income of the Foundation and how to encourage small organisations (less than 1 million Euros annual turnover) to join. A new membership and financial contribution structure was proposed. This was then explored further, adapted and ratified at the subsequent …
Dgroups review, priorities and action plan 2014
For many organizations, Dgroups remains an essential tool, both for internal communications as well as for information and knowledge sharing with and amongst partners. For example, for FARA Dgroups has been a key instrument to connect users working on agriculture and rural development in Africa. Likewise for CTA Dgroups provides a unique solution to the …