Save the date! Dgroups Partners Meeting 2016

We’re pleased to announce that the 2016 Dgroups Partners Meeting will take place on 14th September, 2016, and it will be hosted and co-organized with IDS in the context of the Eldis 20th Anniversary Workshop. The Eldis 20th Anniversary Workshop aims “to bring together knowledge brokers and communications professionals to share learning on the current “state-of-the-art” in digital knowledge sharing …

Dgroups welcomes three new partner organizations

Between end 2015 and beginning 2016, three new organizations have joined the Dgroups Foundation: IDS and UNISDR as Full Dgroups Partners; Savana Signature as Associate Partner. The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is a well established actor in the development sector, being a “leading global institution for development research, teaching and learning, and impact and communications.” Based at the …

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 …

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, …

Testimonials: What would have happened without Dgroups?

Dgroups is home of many groups and communities and several development practitioners have successfully used the Dgroups platform to support and enable their work. With this blog – a re-post from Sarah Cummings’ original piece – we are starting to collect testimonials of how Dgroups has helped users in their work. At the moment, there …

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 …

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 …