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Gather: The Art and Science of Effective Convening
Over the last century, The Rockefeller Foundation has seen the incredible power of convening to create shared dialogue, to debate pathways to impact and to catalyze groundbreaking…
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Designing and Delivering Meaningful Knowledge Management Events
On May 22, 2013 from 12-1 pm EST, the Global Health Knowledge Collaborative held a webinar focused on strategies for planning and coordinating successful KM events. “How to Design…
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Participatory Impact Assessment: A Design Guide
The Feinstein International Center has been developing and adapting participatory approaches to measure the impact of livelihoods based interventions since the early nineties…
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USAID Hosts Its First "Crowdsourcing" Event To Clean, Map, and Share Agency Data
This crowd sourcing effort involved volunteers who virtually collaborated with USAID staff to review Agency data on specific USAID economic growth activities, and help code that…
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Gapminder Website
Gapminder is a data visualization tool for World Bank data. It includes links to various indicator databases maintained by organizations around the world and has links to numerous…
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Outreach Invitation Letter for Online Collaborative Spaces
Once your group is created, a fundamental step in the start-up process is effective outreach. This means reaching out to your core members and seed participants to invite them to…
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Supporting Communities of Practice: A TOPS Quick Guide to Linking Development Practitioners
Communities of practice can take on many different forms. However, they share a common goal: connecting people in a particular craft and/or profession to share experiences and learn…
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Communities of Practice and Networks: Reviewing Two Perspectives on Social Learning
This paper examines two different approaches used to describe and analyse similar phenomena: ‘networks for learning’ and ‘communities of practice’. These approaches are both…
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Designing Participatory Meetings and Brownbags
Visit this resource for ideas on designing meetings and brownbags that are engaging and build inopportunities for participant dialogue.
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Positive Deviance Approach
This website offers information on the positive deviance approach, which is an asset-based, problem-solving, and community-driven approach that enables the community to discover…