NCN Group Newsletter
Bob Ewing <cclash@web.net> has offered to continue the NCN group newsletter
that Trudy Schuett started last year.
The idea is to take a close look at what some of you are doing in terms of
group collaboration of any kind, to report on your plans, your successes,
your learnings, etc. We're focusing on group work because it is one of the
essential pieces of NCN to work out how groups can work well together. So,
a group would be defined as two or more people who are pursuing some kind
of project together.
What you do together as a group might be a humanitarian project, a company,
a community, a dialogue meeting, a party, a ceremony, or whatever you
happen to be doing. It doesn't have to be something "serious". However, of
course, for NCN purposes we're probably most interested in anything that
contributes to making the world a better place, anything that improves the
quality of life somehow, or that at least aims to do so.
Send reports of your group activities to Bob at cclash@web.net, or at least
let him know that you are interested in participating and he might
interview you or elicit further information in some other fashion. The
results will be sent out to NCN in a regular, hopefully monthly, newsletter.
Your group activity might involve NCN members, or it might be something you
do with other good people, it doesn't really matter. The idea is to explore
how group collaborations develop, to learn from each other, and to become
aware of what other projects are out there that we might possibly support
or emulate.
- Flemming
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InterMix Discussion Group System
Roger Eaton <rogereaton@earthlink.net> of Collective Communication has for
the past year been working with another programmer on creating an
innovative new way of interacting with each other on-line. The system is
called InterMix and the idea is that it will be available shortly as
shareware. You can post messages on different threads as in a bulletin
board. What is new is that you can rate messages as to how interesting they
are to you and how much you approve of them. You and others can set up
filters for what kind of messages you want to see, based on ratings or
based on a number of other criteria. The software is still in testing, but
give it a spin:
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Robert Theobald
A number of you know Robert Theobald or are familiar with his work. Robert
is the founder of Action Linkage, Quality of Life Network, Transformational
Learning Communities, author of a number of books, and a long term champion
for social change, community and group collaboration. See
http://www.transform.org/transform/tlc/rtpage.html
We were to have had a meeting here in L.A. in November, initiating various
community activism collaborations. However, Robert now has potentially
terminal esophageal cancer and has had to cancel his travel schedule.
Several of you have asked me to mention that Robert is in need of support,
financial, moral, medical, etc. Specifically Barry Savage
<BarryS3664@aol.com> has volunteered his services, both for research into
cancer treatment, and to act as a "historian" of Robert's transform
projects. Please write Barry if you feel you have something to offer, and
he will coordinate it.
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