[DDN] update: volunteer managers & Hurricane Katrina

[J Cravens]

The resource for managers of volunteers involved in Hurricane 
Katrina-related efforts is ever-growing at www.volunteertoday.com, 
and even FEMA has now been in contact with the organizers to find an 
experienced volunteer manager ready for immediate placement in one 
site -- and this request was filled immediately, thanks to the 
organizers' database which they are calling "Manager of Volunteers 
Respite Corps," a list of such volunteer managers, with the 
experience and resources needed for immediate placement.


For any managers of volunteers who are involved in Hurricane Katrina 
efforts and are overwhelmed, needing assistance from other volunteer 
managers, or needing replacements for such managers running on empty, 
please visit www.volunteertoday.com and contact the site manager -- 
they can help take care of your needs immediately. Please forward 
this email to anyone who might need experienced volunteer managers 
(this includes people with experience in tech-related initiatives -- 
and if you have such specialized experience and can help, visit the 
site as well and contact the organizers).


This database of resources for volunteer managers in 
disaster-relief-recovery efforts is an entirely volunteer effort, 
with contributions by volunteer managers all over the USA and Canada. 
It's being managed by Nancy MacDuff.



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Jayne Cravens
Bonn, Germany

Services for Mission-Based Orgs
www.coyotecommunications.com

Open University Development Studies
www.coyotecommunications.com/development

Contact me
www.coyotecommunications.com/contact.html
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RE: [DDN] Virtual conferences

[John Hibbs]

I'm exceptionally proud that our teeny, weeny non-profit has held 
eight Global Learn Day events, one each year since 1996. GLD, a non 
stop 24 hour event, opens in the South Pacific and "travels" west to 
Hawaii, "the long way around". We make "stops" in eight major regions 
where we feature outstanding people doing highly innovative work, 
mostly in distance education, but also in health training, 
e-democracy and social justice. We use everything but two tin cans 
tied to a string, including community radio, one of the most ignored 
elements in the communication network, and one of the most important. 
(We also use ham radio to bring in voices from Antarctica and other 
truly remote areas.)


But, this year, we will NOT hold Global Learn Day...(taking a year 
off is good for the soul).


HOWEVER, we are watching -- and will participate -- with Webheads, 
the most innovative, far reaching, truly global "enterprise" in the 
whole of the English language training world. They are doing a much, 
much, much better job organizing for their (global) event than we 
ever did for Global Learn Day, so we are learning a LOT.


I encourage subscribers here to plan on attending this exceptional 
conference. No, belay, that...I believe many DDN subscribers might 
wish to submit proposals, particularly about how to improve virtual 
conferences and increase impact. The Webheads conference is not just 
about verbs and pronouns; in fact what it is really about, I say, is 
connecting those doing innovative work of a kind likely to make for a 
safer, saner planet.


HERE IS WHERE YOU SHOULD LOOK

WiAOC 2005: Webheads in Action Online Convergence
 Bridges across Cyberspace

Friday and Saturday, November 18 - 19, 2005
and Convergence rap-up Sunday November 20

tiny url




John Hibbs
http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs

At 11:00 AM -0400 9/18/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

John, I hear you and agree with you.  Visit
http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com to see
how my small, understaffed non profit is trying to connect the face to face
tutor/mentor conference
we hold in Chicago each November and May with others via a variety of
econference concepts. 
We've held 3 econferences since May 2004.


Dan Bassill
Tutor/Mentor Connection
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com



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[DDN] Podcasting from the Scottish Learning Festival

[Andy Carvin]

Hi everyone,

Right now I'm at the Scottish Learning Festival, sitting with a group of 
several thousand Scottish educators in the plenary room awaiting a speech by 
Mark Prensky. I've just posted several podcasts to my blog, including a 
presentation about media literacy by Robin Blake of OFCOM, the UK telecom 
regulatory authority. There's also a podcast and powerpoint of my presentation 
last hour, about the history of online communities and the growth of 
participatory online media. And no trip to Scotland would be complete without a 
brief podcast of a girls' chorus singing in Gaelic.

You can find it all here: http://www.andycarvin.com

RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/carvin

I hope to post a podcast of Mark Prensky's keynote as well. Stay tuned. -andy

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http://www.digitaldivide.net
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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