Global ALIA--Tech and Social Media Ideas

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Permalink Reply by Michael Chender on July 10, 2009 at 3:40pm

Following were the ideas generated at our conversation in Halifax.

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Start with serving alumni and then decide how to go further. Enable specific learning, global conversation, and local community engagement and decision-making.

Specific proposed initiatives:

Connecting alumni
Create a searchable directory (for skills and experience) of colleagues in ALIA network. This will allow for expert peer coaching opportunities, with part/all payment in ALIA $. Also create space for people to post writings, research papers, and other useful resources

On-line learning
Webinars can allow people to go at their own pace, and can also offer blended learning with live and recorded components. We can also look into how to engage the body more in this approach.

Ongoing conversations
There were many ideas on how to approach this. We could start with short recorded talks/provocations, following the T.E.D. model, with supported discussion afterwards. We could do a “New ideas” series. We could design questions for network of simultaneous worldwide community conversations, and also develop the questions by geography, interest, age, and skills/contribution. We could support interested alumni to seed and host questions in their communities

Marketplace/shop
How do we make this self-sustaining?

Other Ideas
To enhance the web site to better explain the program, and to develop You Tube videos about ALIA.

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Permalink Reply by William Drescher on July 10, 2009 at 9:15pm

As an I.T. person who's involved in web development I find the idea of a marketplace highly exciting as well as the idea of various economical and business models. I think that one of the most powerful tools of this age is the ability to bring large groups of people together. People are power and there have been many different economic models emerging and traditional models which are expanding. I think that a marketplace with a small tax levied toward future enrollment at ALIA programs would be a powerful incentive to be a regular participant in the ALIA project. User profiles where you could see a progress bar would be fun to see as well. Maybe even a field where the programs that you can currently afford enrollment in (or half of enrollment) would appear.

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Permalink Reply by Damien F Brennan on July 21, 2009 at 6:42am

Michael,
Many thanks for catching all of this. Linda and I returned safely to Brisbane one week ago and the pace of work since then has been challenging, to say the least. I am chairing a big event day on the 30th July with 3000 school students in the morning and 3000 adults in the evening for the 150 years celebrations of our Archdiocese and there are many loose ends to tie up currently. We had a further lovely week in Nova Scotia following ALiA and wandered some of the Cabot Trail in mist and fog and it was most beautiful. The remainder of our time in Montreal, the old city of Quebec and the Niagara Falls/Niagara on the Lake area was equally superb - enough of this!
I think you have captured well the group discussion. I would add only one point in relation to any online learning (or webinars and group activities) in relation to need to take note of various regional time-zones depending upon the spread of continents from where participants might choose to engage in such activities. For example the Aussie/New Zealand ALiA group looks like starting to be active with a proposed gathering by some in early December in Melbourne and in New Zealand early next year, both many thousands of kms apart.
I do re-iterate the suggestion made in the final gatherings about an annual membership or alumni fee that does enable particpants to engage in activities. I did pick up that this concept might appear to some as an exclusive notion and perhaps counter to the inclusive spirit of Shambala. I guess that needs to be weighed against establishing further financial guarantees.
Kind regards and many thanks for the opportunity to participate in such a wonderful learning experience. Damien

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Permalink Reply by Michael Chender on July 21, 2009 at 7:15pm

Damien,

Good to hear from you, and that you had a good trip. Your suggestions gratefully accepted.

Best regards,

Michael

Damien F Brennan said:

Michael,
Many thanks for catching all of this. Linda and I returned safely to Brisbane one week ago and the pace of work since then has been challenging, to say the least. I am chairing a big event day on the 30th July with 3000 school students in the morning and 3000 adults in the evening for the 150 years celebrations of our Archdiocese and there are many loose ends to tie up currently. We had a further lovely week in Nova Scotia following ALiA and wandered some of the Cabot Trail in mist and fog and it was most beautiful. The remainder of our time in Montreal, the old city of Quebec and the Niagara Falls/Niagara on the Lake area was equally superb - enough of this!
I think you have captured well the group discussion. I would add only one point in relation to any online learning (or webinars and group activities) in relation to need to take note of various regional time-zones depending upon the spread of continents from where participants might choose to engage in such activities. For example the Aussie/New Zealand ALiA group looks like starting to be active with a proposed gathering by some in early December in Melbourne and in New Zealand early next year, both many thousands of kms apart.
I do re-iterate the suggestion made in the final gatherings about an annual membership or alumni fee that does enable particpants to engage in activities. I did pick up that this concept might appear to some as an exclusive notion and perhaps counter to the inclusive spirit of Shambala. I guess that needs to be weighed against establishing further financial guarantees.
Kind regards and many thanks for the opportunity to participate in such a wonderful learning experience. Damien

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