Practical steps for engaging communities of practice
There are numerous resources and guidance available online on Community of Practice (CoP) engagement planning. For instance, the World Bank’s Community of Practice Toolkit offers practical tools for designing, developing, and managing impactful CoPs. This resource includes articles, worksheets, templates, and other materials to support community leaders. Similarly, USAID’s Guide on Supporting Communities of Practice …
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Brief summarises lessons for more effective online collaboration, dialogue, and interaction in international development
Last year, as the entire development community moved online, the Dgroups Foundation teamed up with partners to take stock of good practices in facilitating and sustaining online and virtual communities and interactions. This included a knowledge café in May that identified four critical success factors for online collaboration, a KM4Dev@20 workshop in July, an e-conference …
Learning from our peers – Email and online forums for health and development professionals
The third Dgroups Online Peer Exchange session took place on Monday 15 July 2013. With a thematic focus on email and online forums for health and development professionals, the session was organised together with the Knowledge Gateway, which is running on the same technology that powers Dgroups and that is developed and supported by WA Research. In this …
Slides from the Dgroups Peer Exchange – 15 July 2013
The third Dgroups Online Peer Exchange session took place last Monday 15 July 2013. For this session, we had the pleasure to have as speaker Angela Nash-Mercado from Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programme and K4Health, who presented the Knowledge Gateway. This platform is running on the same technology that powers Dgroups and that …
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Dgroups Online Peer Exchange – 15 July 2013
The Dgroups Online Peer Exchange session continue with the third event in this series planned for 15 July 2013, from 1600 to 1730 CEST. This session will look at “Email forums for health and development professionals.” Two presenters will share their experiences: Angela Nash Mercado will present how the Knowledge Gateway (which uses the same underlying software as …
Learning from our peers – How FAO and SDC use Dgroups
The second Dgroups Online Peer Exchange took place on 16 April 2013. As in the previous session, two Dgroups partner organizations presented their experience in using Dgroups for online networking, knowledge exchange and communication to support their work. Some 30 people participated in the session, with an interesting debate following the presentation by Kristin Kolshus and …
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Slides from the Dgroups Peer Exchange – 16 April 2013
After the one held last November, on 16 April 2013 the Dgroups Foundation hosted a second Online Peer Exchange. Two Dgroups Partners, the FAO and the Swiss Development cooperation, presented their experience in using Dgroups effectively to support communications, knowledge sharing and learning in their work. The slides are available online at Slideshare and below here. …
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Learning from our peers – How RWSN and FARA use Dgroups
The Dgroups Foundation hosted our first Online Peer Exchange session on 15 November 2012, in order to strengthen peer-to-peer learning among Dgroups Partners, moderators, and users, earlier. The meeting, organized in the context of the 2012 Dgroups Annual Meeting, brought together some twenty people to learn from two organizations how they have put Dgroups to …
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Slides from the Dgroups 2012 Online Peer Exchange
On 15 November 2012, the Dgroups Foundation hosted an online peer exchange session. The event was organized in the context of the 2012 Dgroups Annual Meeting. During the peer exchange, two Dgroups partners organizations shared their experiences in working with Dgroups and making the most of it to support daily business practices. The slides are …
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