What goes where on ned.com

(I've just sent the following message to Life in Africa's Ugandan community members who are also members at ned. Posting it here for reference.)

Dear LiA (Uganda) members -

Over the past few months as we've been redefining Life in Africa structures AND moving away from Onet AND resettling into a new online home here at ned, our online communications have been a bit disorganized. It's time to get organized!

In answer to some of your recent questions about what to post where, I'm proposing the following new protocol for all of us to follow:

1. There is now a new group called Life in Africa - Global. This group is for keeping each other and our global supporters updated about what's happening at Life in Africa on the ground.

All LiA members in Uganda are invited to contribute; program managers and reporters will have specific instructions on posting to specific threads once they are appointed. Loans editing, program planning discussions and progress reports will take place in this group. As in the past, there will be an operations thread for communication between Gulu and Kireka that you should all put on your watchlist.

• join the Life in Africa global group at the following link: http://www.ned.com/group/lia-glo bal/
• click below to put the operations communication thread on your watchlist (and make a small post to tell us how you are while you are there!): http://www.ned.com/group/lia-glo bal/news/6/watch

2. The Life in Africa USA group is for discussing our online and US-based marketing, distribution and fundraising strategies, including the Life in Africa Ambassadors and School Fundraising programs. We'll also use this group to explore how we should use some of the new websites out there that can be useful in the Life in Africa context.

All of you are welcome to join and participate in this group to learn about and contribute to Life in Africa's global marketing strategies. New program ideas and requests for what you may need in addition to Life in Africa's programs, however, should NOT be posted in that group any longer.

• go here to join the Life in Africa-USA group http://www.ned.com/group/lia-usa /

3. The NedUganda group is like your veranda. Here you may post anything related to Uganda, including new project ideas (esp group projects) that come from any Ugandan members of ned.com.

If you post an idea that gets support from within the nedUganda group, there may also be opportunities (through ned) to raise funds for implementing that idea in Uganda. The specific procedures for qualifying to raise funds are yet to be established. Your views on that subject are required at the discussion link below.

Please note that Life in Africa USA and/or Life in Africa Uganda may play a future role in disbursing and monitoring funds on the ned community's behalf, but will not play a leading role in raising the funds for or implementing new project ideas that you propose in the NedUganda group. You will all really need to work as a team on nurturing your relationships with folks in the ned community, in order for the community financing aspect to take off and gain momentum.

• go here to join the nedUganda group: http://www.ned.com/group/nedugan da/
• Go here to discuss what the procedures for ned community funding should be: http://www.ned.com/group/nedugan da/news/11/

I hope this helps all of you in sorting out what should go where in your mind. Please also don't forget to give points to discussions that you would like others to participate in. The more points a discussion has, the more likely others are likely to see it!

My best to you all -

C