:Title:    Collaboration Cafe - how easy can we make it for youth demands' of worldwide changes
:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:48:41 PDT
:Modified: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:35:25 PDT
:URL:      http://www.ned.com/group/networkweavers/news/6/

aftre the colaboration cafe tv show on bronx cable tv we were asked to put up a weblog that any colaboratin city could cut and paste theior own concerns searches from - so we've made a start at http://collaborationcafe.blogspot.com

updates: Sarkozy demands Paris leading business school http://www.hec.fr/hec/eng/news/news-detail.php?cle=74916&num=1213 give students a choice of how to unlearn MBA .. survey debriefs on which other worldwide business schools are participating will appear here http://www.smbaworld.com/id42.html

-surveys of how to collaborate round this in other cities follow here http://www.ned.com/group/networkweavers/news/6/10/



2 rather extraordinary things happened while in London week of sept 11:
we got a message that Yunus might want us to search London for the 1000 most collaborative and urgent world changers our http://peoplepower.jp nets can muster 

whilst hosting a cafe in the Quakers House I was reminded by a participant what happened in 1931 when 1000 networkers met Gandhi
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Footnote collaboration cafe process:

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 So we started coining <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Bcollaboration+%2Bknowledge+%2Bcity&btnG=Google+Search">collaboration knowledge cities</a> as places where people knowledge matters most, and <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%2Bcollaboration+%2Bcafe&btnG=Search">collaboration cafes</a> as events that networkers connect across cities. 

I have now hosted 50+ of these cafes  http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page4.html mainly out of London. This year we are offering a fall festival of cafes on 3 consecutive days but we are also wanting to share what we openly learn with hosts/hubs in other cities if we can find any.    

Typically a cafe:
-takes one hour; is free but if we get full the most contextually passionate are served
-in ideal form we spot someone famous is about to visit a city and we send out an invitation : we can't pay you but if you will meet 10 of us for a coffe we'll sarch all our networks for 10 people who most
actively want to be your disciples

In effect collaboration cafes reduce 3-days Harrison Owen "open spaces" to one hour by making the invitation and search process as focused as we possibly can. 

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**Comments**

:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:23:02 PDT
:Modified: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:28:03 PDT

superscaling yunus cafe 

11.00 am wednesday sept 12 at the nightingale cafe balham tube (3 minutes along the road )

Flow 1
Mostofa Zaman - you tell us for a few minutes any conclusions of the research that you did in Dhaka on yunus supporters forums http://muhammadyunus.org/content/view/59/89/lang,en/ this summer; I will bring copies of the questionnaire you sent out across all our collaboration networks

Flow 2
Leading business journalist alan mitchell will briefly discuss why the games rules of transparency auditing and sustainability investment mapping show that yunus is one of the most sustainable and value multiplying service franchises the world of 2007-2012 can connect to; we will explain how 24 years of tracking coordinated by the UK's senior economist connects with this http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/

(we will note the mathematical conflicts with superscaling the pure microcredit franchise http://www.ned.com/group/econo-politics/news/8/0/ , and ask whether similar hi-trust problems will apply to any social entrepreneur's interlocal replication)

we will then invite people to ask questions; and we will aim to work out who wants to help or stay in other ways connected with yunus forum London, or what ideas londoners have for collaborating with this;  

overall
... what are the main ways yunus asks citizens -and londoners in particular -  to help him network now ; any other special interfaces like Yunus' UK trained pop stars ... how to weave what we learn openly to any other city who may wish to collaborate with the same urgency of focus 

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:Author:   Steve Habib Rose
:Date:     Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:50:55 PDT

I was involved at one point with a similar initiative, which has since become Conversation Cafes.  See http://www.conversationcafe.org/  I believe I am still one of the moderators of a public discussion list for Conversation Cafes, and would be happy to post an announcement/invitation to that list.  Please send it to me in plain text to habib - at - connectexpress.com

I'd also like to encourage you to become a part of Conversation Week 2008, from March 24-30.  You can find out more at the Conversation Cafes website listed above.

You may also want to become a part of the Conversation Collaborative -- see http://www.conversationcafe.org/explore_coll.html

in community (and conversation),

Habib

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:Author:   Julie Caldwell
:Date:     Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:50:57 PDT

This is an idea that would be fabulous for `network weavers`_. 

What would you suggest as next steps?

.. _`network weavers`: http://www.networkweavers.net 

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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:14:19 PDT

In a way I need people to ask questions as to any how's that are not obvious - we can share what we have learnt as well as discussions agendas that seem to lead torevolutions, though what flows in one city and what in another is something we'd love to learn from too

Cafes seem to range from very small and deep meets where someone comes out with an idea and is releived even to find 2 other people passionately believe in it too, 

to

the original idea track world's most trusted people's diaries ahead of time and when you find they are visiting your city make them a networking offer

BREAKING news: it seems that Yunus has upped the ante on Londoners- he will give us 2 hours if we can get 1000 people same place same time same collaboration flows as his- we are just checking that we did understand the invitation, and whether it applies to any city he is passing through 

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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:45:33 PDT
:Modified: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:46:44 PDT

Back in 1931 the Quakers networked weaved 1000 people round Gandhi so well that people he became connected through life included:
Maria Montessori - she visited India and planted what became the best examples of her peer to peer schooling

Albert Einstein - who refereed the value of Gandhi's leadership as the most sustainable he had ever seen. Soon my grandad whose job as head Raj judge in Mumbai had been to imprison Gandhi saw the light and... ended up writing up te legalese for India's Independence.


How can we in London (or any city) play the best games of network snap when Yunus visits us? What's blocking http://peoplepower.jp today? Can we revisit every global market sector and check which are sustaining human futures? 
For example, what good are global pharma corps if they dont want to invent vacinations that replace costly treatments they are selling? 

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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:48:08 PDT

I was asked elsewhere to give details on collaboration cafe as a faciliation tool - this answer may be of some value as it blends more understanding on where te tool came from and where londoners 1000 most colaborative networkers wish to go to

technique collaboration cafe:

collaboration cafe started with the view that 3-day open space is sandwiched by invitation before the space and what actions network after the space (facebook group on open space http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2336949583

the question : if citizens only have 90 minutes and space for a 10 person cafe- can anything world changing be done?

we decided perhaps it could if we essentially focused on invitation and post space action

specifically what if a group of citizens -such as members of http://www.simpol.org on whose management board I served for 2 years - around a city shared their votes on number 1 trusted people in change world - who, what context, and searched when any of these number 1's was visiting the city ahead of time; and made the cheeky offer to this world#1 host - we cant offer you speaker fees but we can search all our networks and find you the 10 people who most want to action your work

so because the invitation has been geared to a world change person, the group is there to Q&A how to practice or network weave with that world changer and the post space opportunities to change the world flow truly

londoners have now done about 50 collaboration cafes
http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page4.html
http://www.ned.com/group/networkweavers/news/6/
we were surprised a fortnight ago by a bonus meta-collaboration cafe offer; with enough people sharing lists of world's most trusted people and why, we were asked could we help map who the 1000 most collaborative people around London are -ie people ready to team up for urgent system transformations if Muhhamad Yunus has time to give such 1000 people two hours of meeting time

quite how we live up to that my friend/facilitator sofia bustamante is spending night and day working on http://grameen.tv 

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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:19:56 PDT
:Modified: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:20:36 PDT

Collaboration Cafe is being transferred next week to broadway (well actually washington square but what's a few neigbourhood among friends); know anyine in New York who's passionate about any of tehse cafe subjects, please invite the - the more cause passion the better

Date Thursday October 11
11.15 Photosynthesis Cafe (question expert: rick nelson)

12.30 Malaria and community transparency for grassroots health Cafe (question expert: peter burgess)

1.45 Yunus WorldCitizen Challenge Cafe: will your city be first to interact 1000 people meta-collaboration Yunus Forum (question connector:  chris macrae)
 
venue Olive Cafe
location: 117 McDougal Street which is close to West 3rd Street just South of Washington Park. 
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More details- 11.15 is a replay of a cafe in London's festival last month. Rick's photosynthesis architecture and agriculture inventions open up a world of clean energy and clean food abundance.  But they conflict with most existing channels and professional interests. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CToYjQFRxXE we believe he's a classic test case of an open source entrepreneurial revolutionary that citizens could network sustainability around - but will we? Rick aims to respond to Taddy Blecher’s request at CIDA Free University (S. Africa) to open source practical peer to peer curricula for sustainability entrepreneurs and wishes to show that photosynthesis architecture around a slum like Kibera would be a 10 times better carbon reinsurance fund than plant a tree. 
 
12.30 Peter Burgess is a Brit whose retirement projects in New York include end malaria and other transparency networks. After a lifetime spent working in many African countries - sometimes with business and genocide going on side by side - Peter, a chartered accountant, can answer questions on what aspects of empowerment in grassroots communities, global aid seldom reaches. His community intelligence webs: http://immconsortium.org  http://tr-ac-net.org 
 
1.45 Londoners have been posed a big question by Muhammad Yunus. Can we survey all our change networks for the 1000 people who would most want to be invited for 2 hours to discuss everyone’s collaboration projects including the social enterprise stock market that http://peoplepower.jp could help emerge. This builds on a London cafe which Mostofa Zaman presented after interning with Yunus in Dhaka this summer on: how can Yunus citizen forums empower maximum change. Yunus has selected the Forum value : "impossible becomes possible if right action, right time, right place, right people". Chris co-authored 1984 netfuture book with his dad, future history leaders editor at The Economist. Death of Distance challenges net generation include mapping 30000 replicable social projects by 2010 http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html


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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:33:04 PST
:Modified: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:35:04 PST

New York's winter festival of collaboration cafe is being organised by fellow nedster Peter Burgess for 23 january - after the cafes we expect to swarm to the NYU Barnes and Noble where Muhammad Yunus will be greeting new yorkers with his new book; creating a owrld without poverty - socila business, te future of capitalism
http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=9781586484934&view=tour

http://storelocator.barnesandnoble.com/authors.do;jsessionid=AB9755D310B5D1C34E0C7769443FDE83

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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:58:43 PST

location nightingale cafe: 193 Balham High Road, Balham London, SW12 9BE ( 3 minutes from balham tube)
 
let's take a future history check:
 
1 Future Capitalism: Yunus 2007
 
2 Future Capitalism : dad in Bangladesh \9world war 2) 1943 at The Economist 1984
 
3 Future Capitalism - founder of The Economist 1843
 
Principles stated in 1984 : 
 
X) globalisation is the biggest system change ever to hit one generation of humanity 1984-2024. If we compound win-win-win global it will be greatest progress for all of humanity starting with the poorest; if we compound lose-lose-lose global , it will end human sustainability. (System changes have had this impact on countless civilisations before but this time we are all interconnected)
 
2007 Read social abcd extract of yunus on how to debate whether you are doing stuff systemised by lose-lose-lose global or win-win-win global http://www.valuetrue.com/home/gallery.cfm
 
Y) Human sustainability will be lost if we only systemise global-down. We need to integrate Entrepreneurial Revolution's 3 forces- the other 2 being community-up sustainability and boundary zero-risks (eg Larry Brilliant systemise no plagues; or alfonso lingis systemise no wars between cultures)
 
2007 Read extract of yunus on half-developed capitalism and how social actions are a way any 3 people can sustain community goals; and social businesses can integrate the 3-in-one.
 
yunus 2007 Our job as citizens -which Yunus Forums invite you to celebrate humanity through -  is to collaborate around every community-up or zero-risk boundary method- as well as microcredit a recent favourite of Yunus is Bottom of Pyramid eye care hospital and Free University of Blecher. If we truly connect all community-up and side to side projects we will turn capitalism round from exponentially destructing human sustainability
 
We are not likely to see another nobel economist with the upward momentum of Yunus make this collaboration city invitation in time to save sustainability

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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:04:14 PDT
:Modified: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:04:34 PDT

last night a collaboration tavern of 20 people in new york including various bankers discussed some of yunus' latest happenings

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/516350-grameen-banks-muhammed-yunus-first-nobel-laureate-to-address-an-islamic-finance-forum?ln=en
Bahrain this week: Yunus is headlining the IIFF, which runs in Dubai from April 13-17, and is being held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai.In his first address, Yunus said the consequences of the turmoil in credit markets represented an opportunity for the global finance sector to consider its current rules and regulation."It is a good time to reflect on what a bank is and does," said Yunus, speaking to a packed-audience of delegates in Dubai.
"If I were to ask for a billion dollars for a good global cause, there would be a lot of uproar - but a trillion dollars down the drain, everyone off still playing golf, and not a word spoken."

co-staging keynotes with veolia's water billionnaire next week http://watermeetsmoney.com/

two weeks ago his lunch with President Sarkozy, that leed to the instriuction that france's leading busienss school offers an smba course next fall 

I am glad to report that it was agreed that colaboration tavern will become a monthly fixture in new york

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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Fri, 23 May 2008 15:53:07 PDT
:Modified: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:56:04 PDT

I was talking with someone near the top of one of the most interesting management schools in the USA if not the world and he said you mean you think Dr Yunus would like me to ask if we could help him with content on how to change what MBAs are taught

 

to which I say : yes I mean that

 

to which he says: if you think that's what he wants we can definitely try to help him

 

--so I guess I had better continue ringing round heads of business schools asking if they have any plans to collaborate with France's SMBA lead:

http://www.hec.fr/hec/eng/news/news-detail.php?cle=74916&num=1213

 

on to stuff which in one sense is more at ground level, but perhaps even more fun to do if you feel so- I have been trying to work on http://collaborationcafe.blogspot.com with the 2 principles:

-a different collaboration theme, which one or more of you have kindly talked about collaborationng on, in each historic month (ie forget the dates and lets use the rest of the free web that a blog structure offers)

-if a city or indeed a subgroup likes some of te themes but not others they can always take the code and start a paralel blog 

 

it needs more work, co-editing, both ooncollaboration topics I havent digested yet and to make it clearer what next steps are on stuff itemised but anyhow here's the menu for starters

 

http://collaborationcafe.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html

dec 2007- can youth poverty be ended in usa and indeed will it be a deciding election agenda - I have borrowed from Darryl's energy on this: I have to say that I dont quite believe Darryl's web will work as is, though with some tweaks it could certainly do something, and of course I'd be most happy to be wrong; if I understand his logic he both wants to transfer current charity giving in usa - if 15% of all charity went to youth in poverty that would fix basic needs if I hear him right as well as expand charity giving. I feel the privacy photos dont really work and that it will be neccessary to partner some of the established childrens charities. But i certainly think the web is an extraordinary demonstrtaion of the issue of being a click away from ending youth poverty, a talking point many action groups could get fired up by- and I congratulate Darryl on getting a 30 minute slot with bronx tv to elaborate on this

 

http://collaborationcafe.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html

nov 07 Africa Transparency Resources- Spencer is volunteering to be inbox for nominations of who cares locally about African countries among your peers. Collab cafe started in NY with the African transparency and end malaria and community impact analysis work of Peter (and Spencer) so I look forward to this section brewing with any flows we can bring. Over in London diaspora networks we have a lot of deep and hopefully synergetic work coordinated by Lesley.

 

youth actions

http://collaborationcafe.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html

here I am hoping that marriah will add in suggestions from his recent mail that sounded briilliant; I am not quite sure which of the focal points he identified are happy to be named in a blog so I havent transferred his post directly but I feel there is a huge momentum around social actions coming from:

*what marriah has suggested

*the dialogues between eg yunus and youth particularly on chapter 11 of his book

*the // social action uni of Bill Clinton - whilst I take quite a lot of the wickets of BC as way above my league, it did seem that a major thrust of his 500 student conference at new orleans was to tell them its ok to ask university staff for help in developing community building outreach

 

http://collaborationcafe.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html

postcards from Dhaka

we have 4 people on this circulation list visiting Dhaka in the next 8 weeks doing work (Rachel already there and alexis from new york and mostofa and mark from london) at either ASA or Grameen and also in touch with BRAC university; we look forward to a few postcards from this most practical and heroic place on ending poverty, building community banks , and as Intel announced earlier this week laboratory for what the www can do in connecting the 3 billion people which the first 20 years of the www has given almost no interactive inclusion to http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&um=1&tab=wn&q=%2Byunus+OR+grameen+OR+BRAC+OR++chowdhury+%2Btelecentre+OR+solutions+OR+telecenter+%2Bgates+OR+intel+OR+cisco++OR+schmidt+OR+google&btnG=Search+News

 

april

vote for a dvd of the 100 most socially actionable youtube videos on the planet

http://collaborationcafe.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html

within reason I am happy to open sponsor the cutting of such a compendium if we can vote in the content

 

anyhow these are how a sample of ideas are shaping up -and I know its just a first stab to see if a step forward or back - 

if your biggest collaboration invitation isnt covered either ask to become an editor of the blog or tell one of the editors what it is

 

cheers

 

chris macrae dc tel 301 881 1655


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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:38:41 PDT
:Modified: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:46:22 PDT

news from the latest dhaka collaboration cafe just intl reporter mostfa zaman, serial interner at Grameen

 Grand Prince Hotel.
 The meeting was for 2.35 Minutes long.
 The peoples:
 1. Rachel. ASA womens worldwide truth branding of microbanking
 2. Chris S, ASA Intern; comparing entrepreneurial anatomies of village by vilage - what service franchises do you find in ever bangladeshi villages and how is peer to peer learning swapped across villages
 3. Clayton L, Grameen Intern
 4. Kojiro, Grameen Intern
 5. Richemount, Grameen Intern
 6. Benoit, Project Grameen- Veolia Water Company
 7.and myself

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 topics included - why do virtual communities -especially american hosted ones - so often hate to share diaries of open source projects however well they are accelerating; what more does Dr Yunus need to add to the debate of let's unite around <a href="http://wholeplanet.tv">wholeplanet</a> experiments <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/juraASgeg8I&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/juraASgeg8I&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> how do we bridge our 2000 people knowledge updating network events <a href="http://microcredit.tv">http://microcredit.tv</a> and those of others trying to save humanity before sustainability's deadlines crash




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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:33:11 PDT

New collaboration cafe website, and first news of DVD10000

http://www.collaborationcafe.net/ would enjoy feedback
 

recent social action learnings:

 
after 5 of us spending this week in Dhaka the plans of Muhammad Yunus and Bill Clinton to engage youth during the year 2008/2009 seem to be getting exponentially bigger and more collaborative; coincidentally they also seem to match a big obama speech earler this week on the american priority to get back to loving job creation of a humanly productive kind -what industries like banking and professions like economics once used to truly focus on before globalisation took a wrong turn http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html

 

flows around 4 cities that I love seem to have extraordinary opportunities to help youth connect this wave together worldwide:

 

new york (To List)

london & Dhaka (CC List)

Paris - the western city that has so far done most to advance the collaboration dynamics of future capitalism

 

we have permission from Dr Yunus to pilot DVD10000 - which 25 video stories of youtuble length could be collected on one dvd and circulated to 10000 youth so as to maximise year long social action debates and share good news of community building and sustainability revolutions that the mass media so seldom covers? http://futuresunited.com 

 

thanks, chris macrae us tel 301 881 1655


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:Author:   Linda Nowakowski
:Date:     Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:19:07 PDT

chris macrae said:

     ...

     The meeting was for 2.35 Minutes long.

     The peoples:
     1. Rachel. ASA womens worldwide truth branding of microbanking

     2. Chris S, ASA Intern; comparing entrepreneurial anatomies of village by vilage - what service franchises do you find in ever bangladeshi villages and how is peer to peer learning swapped across villages

     3. Clayton L, Grameen Intern

     4. Kojiro, Grameen Intern

     5. Richemount, Grameen Intern

     6. Benoit, Project Grameen- Veolia Water Company

     7.and myself
    

    
     topics included - 

      why do virtual communities -especially american hosted ones - so often hate to share diaries of open source projects however well they are accelerating; 

      what more does Dr Yunus need to add to the debate of let's unite around 

Was the format speed meeting?



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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:35:19 PDT

must have been a tupo from dhaka- I assumed it was 2.35 hours long- not even brillant bangladeshi's are that fast at knowledge collaboration

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:Author:   Liam Cullen
:Date:     Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:54:30 PDT

Dr Yunus, Dr Yunus.... tell us Dr Yunus...

reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons... where they have the Dr. from the planet of the apes.... you know Chris.. the more you pour this stuff down people's throats... the more bitter it gets... 



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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:42:21 PDT
:Modified: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:47:58 PDT

so liam you make supreme cort judgements for the whole of ned- gee may your gods smile on you

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:Author:   Liam Cullen
:Date:     Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:47:07 PDT

Hey Chris,

That's unfair!!! You posted the same response in two different threads...and you misspelt the word court twice!!!

OK... now when you go to the corner and spank your own bottom... make sure you do it soundly and then write the lines,

"I will not appear in court, but u should"

Say 10 hail Dr Yunus's and light a candle for world peace.

regards,

Liam.

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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:32:42 PDT

you know at the end of every day the proof is in the action not in the ned-liam-chat or your wickedly humorous fantasies

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:Author:   Liam Cullen
:Date:     Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:39:05 PDT

Well said Chris!!! 
I am sure you are a person of genuine belief in your cause and your hero..... I just think you plug and plug with so much incomprehensible word jargon stuff and try so hard to talk above everyone else in a manner that puts people off and refuse to respond directly to simple messages... did I mention poor punctuation??  anyway I am sure you are of good intent but if you were able to concentrate your communciations and recognize the difference between a dumpmaster approach and taking the time yourself to pick out the key aspects of what you believe.... mate you would kick goals... just stop trying to shove 1 tonne of Yunnus information through the letterbox everytime you post.

peace and power

Liam

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:Author:   chris macrae
:Date:     Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:11:41 PDT

I thought might as well transfer some old collaboration records before they disappear

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 <div>.<p><span class="title"><a href="../group/genxleaders/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">(US) GenX Leaders and Leadership Style</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 20</span><br /><span class="subtitle">**GIVEN the negative bias exhibited against the generation commonly referred to as GenX, how do we make that group more visible?** Another article in a prominent publication http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/the_leadership_deficit/ bemoaned, in p...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/patch/" title="Last updated: 25 weeks ago">* * PATCH (Personal Action To CHange) * *</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 94</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Practical things that any ordinary person, **including you**, can do to bring about change. Many, indeed nearly all the things here are FREE to do, all they cost is time. This group is for everyone regardless of financial standing. We have power to cha...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/bwi/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">* Better World Island *</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 86</span><br /><span class="subtitle">I invite you to join me in exploring the ways that we might put the Better World Island project in Second Life to work as a shared space where we can meet, explore and collaborate on projects. `Click here to find out what we&#39;re currently exploring`_ an...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/tincup/" title="Last updated: 26 weeks ago">1 Tin Cup</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 45</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Got a buck or two to spare? Here&#39;s a place to learn more about some of this week&#39;s new campaigns, and the people and goals behind various community tin cups. .. sidebar:: **ABOUT 1 TIN CUP** **Where are the Tip Jars?** `This Week&#39;s Campaigns`_ ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/tenpercentclub/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">10% Club</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 16</span><br /><span class="subtitle">------ **The aim of this group is to discuss and develop ways of propogating a 10% pledge meme throughout the masses.** .. attention :: ``:)`` Joining this group does *NOT* require you to donate 10% of your income! Just share any/all of your questions...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/2people/" title="Last updated: last year">2People</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">2People aims to be a catalyst for the global sustainability movement. We are building tools for online community that are integrated with strategies for real world engagement. Our guiding motivation is that we&#39;re running out of time to make the transiti...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/abcde/" title="Last updated: 48 weeks ago">A Business Concept Development Enterprise</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 20</span><br /><span class="subtitle">ABCDE has been an idea of mine for some years now and I believe that O.net is a perfect environment in which to test its potential. Business concept ideas fall into the vast ocean that exists between a momentary thought and the actual businessization o...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/action/" title="Last updated: 25 weeks ago">Action Center</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 111</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Share the vision, ideas, and actions you or your organization are up to and allow the wealth of resources on the network take you to the next level!</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/actnow/" title="Last updated: last year">ACTION INFO</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 61</span><br /><span class="subtitle">We noticed there are many calls to action in various other discussions and threads on this network. We foresee that the number of projects would grow exponentially as more and more people discover the network. We hope to make this place a quick one-stop...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/activestories/" title="Last updated: 40 weeks ago">Active Stories: Role Models and Mentors</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 72</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Role models, Mentors and Natural Allies -- who changed YOUR life? :: &quot;The world is made up of stories, not atoms.&quot; *-- Muriel Rukeyser.* In exploring the rich garden of ideas and resources that continue to grow within our community, it often occurs...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/activist-tech/" title="Last updated: 29 weeks ago">Activist Techology</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 158</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A loose coalition of technologists and political thinkers have been discussing activist technology and political uses of social software in conversations that began during the Howard Dean campaign, and have been carried forward over several platforms. T...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/eldercare/" title="Last updated: last year">Adult children of Aging Parents---Caregiving</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 9</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Many of us have parents who are growing older and need some help with daily activities. This can range from simply needing an errand run once a week to needing constant attention and care. How do we, as adult children, perhaps with growing, demanding c...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/estrogenarmy/" title="Last updated: 28 weeks ago">Adventures With the Estrogen Army!</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 38</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. &quot;If I was going to fight affluence -- flesh and words and schedules and sorrows -- I would have to cultivate an underground railroad of allies to show me the way out. I gathered them up, these women, these sage and wisened conscripts, and went to war...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/relationships/" title="Last updated: 36 weeks ago">Advocating Close Personal Relationships</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 28</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Close personal relationships affect our happiness more than anything else--more than health, wealth, pleasure, or power. Despite the impact of these relationships in our lives, we often leave them to chance instead of increasing our ability to connect e...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/africaaid/" title="Last updated: 27 weeks ago">Africa Aid</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 8</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Africa Aid provides the foundation for innovative partnerships and intimate community-based relationships between developing African communities and their more established American counterparts. To create a sustainable and mutually beneficial community ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/radio-africa/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Africa Community Radio Concept</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 23</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Discussion of issues and ideas associated with creating a public/independent/community radio station or radio network.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/afrevo/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">African Voices</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 0</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/agridev/" title="Last updated: 27 weeks ago">Agriculture &amp; Rural Development</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 13</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The purpose of this group is to help people in the agricultural development community connect and exchange ideas relating to all forms of agriculture (livestock, aquaculture, horticulture, etc) food security, and agribusiness in developing economies.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/oac/" title="Last updated: 30 weeks ago">AMD Open Architecture Challenge</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is to help promote, support and add your 2 cents on the AMD Open Architecture Challenge, an initiative to develop appropriate and sustainable technology centers that will help a broad cross-section of the surrounding population realize greate...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/americandreaminc/" title="Last updated: last year">American Dream Inc.</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 42</span><br /><span class="subtitle">American Dream Inc. is the name of my project that has the goal to create a new visa for non-millionaires foreign entrepreneurs that desire to create their business here in US under a special tutoring program.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/amo/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Amoration</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 36</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Our mission is to create a culture of conscious compassion. * We use every tool at our disposal to facilitate positive change. * We dynamically seek to integrate the best pieces of ourselves and our society. * Awareness and practiced discernment in...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/africa/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">An Uplift Pavilion for Africa - Kijiweni</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 108</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. This Pavilion serves as a connecting point for folks coming together around Uplift in Africa. We invite you to share it as a place to innovate, celebrate and discover natural allies. Please add your name to our list of Friends &amp; Allies. ===========...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/animalaid/" title="Last updated: 32 weeks ago">Animal Aid</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 21</span><br /><span class="subtitle">&acirc;&euro;&oelig;The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.&acirc;&euro; Gandhi. It bothers me that I cannot find an Issue listing that covers what to me is a very basic issue. I hope to discuss the ethical treatment of all the other inhabitants o...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/api-admin/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">API Admin</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 7</span><br /><span class="subtitle">For internal use only.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/worldconnectory/" title="Last updated: 18 weeks ago">Apportionment and the Worldwide Connectory</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 64</span><br /><span class="subtitle">**THIS GROUP HAS BEEN RELOCATED TO NED.COM UNDER THE TITLE &quot;THE WORLD CONNECTORY PROJECT&quot;** it can be found here_: http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/about .. _here: http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/about -------------- All aspects of the World Connectory P...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/aofa/" title="Last updated: 33 weeks ago">Archive of Action</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 18</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group will showcase and archive the &quot;good things&quot; that have happened here as the result of o.net members collaborating and inspiring each other to action. May it serve to inspire even more good things.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/peacetiles/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Art + Technology + Participation in Development</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 109</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is about alot of things. Mostly its how the arts can be used as a vehicle to promote social inclusion, education, creativity, skills-building and entrepreneurism. One such project here is `Peace Tiles`_, a fun and &quot;as challenging as you want ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/artheals/" title="Last updated: last year">Art Heals</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 19</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Art Heals develops animated web sites for chronically ill children, provides murals for children in crisis, and much more. The purpose of this group is to serve as the home for the development of this &quot;company&quot; and to serve as host for related discussi...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/artfuture/" title="Last updated: 32 weeks ago">artFUTURE</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 35</span><br /><span class="subtitle">What is the positive impact on society as the arts merge with technology and science?</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/artisans/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Artisan Collaboration &amp; Cooperatives</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 21</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A place for artisans to exchange ideas about their work and to facilitate collaboration and/or cooperative development.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/artsfest/" title="Last updated: last year">ArtSFest</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Collaborative space for ArtSFest planning - join us in cultivating the next generation of arts in the San Francisco Bay Area! Read more about ArtSFest at http://www.artsfestsf.org, or join us here to help in planning our annual festival and year-round p...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/atlascorps/" title="Last updated: 27 weeks ago">Atlas Service Corps</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 29</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Atlas Service Corps is a new international citizen sector organization that identifies rising citizen sector leaders from the developing world to volunteer for one year in the United States. In this year long Fellowship, these Fellows will learn best p...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/basics/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">Basics and More for Non-Profits</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 109</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The goal for this group is to create a place for those already in the non-profit world, and those who hope to join it, to share ideas and basic information about what it takes to start and keep your business going. I am inspired to make this group hap...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/buddies_socialjustice/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Better World Buddies - Social Justice</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 20</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group to look at ways of introducing folks to each other as &quot;Better World Buddies&quot; who are connected by an interest in a &quot;social justice&quot; issue. (This might include things like poverty, child abuse, discrimination, and so on). It&#39;s part of t...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/buddies_tech/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Better World Buddies - Technology</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 28</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group to look at ways of introducing folks to each other as &quot;Better World Buddies&quot; who are connected by an interest in a &quot;technology&quot; issue. It&#39;s part of the general &quot;Buddies&quot; group. This group could serve as the meeting point to connect wit...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/buddies_youth/" title="Last updated: last year">Better World Buddies - Youth</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 24</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group to look at ways of introducing folks to each other as &quot;Better World Buddies&quot; who are connected by an interest in a &quot;youth&quot; issue. It&#39;s part of the general &quot;Buddies&quot; group. This group could serve as the meeting point to connect with eac...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/media/" title="Last updated: 20 weeks ago">Better World Media</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 216</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group to investigate ways of balancing the media to include positive discourse - to bring more attention to what is working, and how to do more of it.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/scouts/" title="Last updated: last year">Better World Scouts</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 17</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group which which supports folks who wish to scout out news and service opportunities for a better world.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/theater/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Better World TV</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 14</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Welcome to an omidyar.net theater. Ever watched a &quot;better world building&quot; movie? Hosted a viewing party? Thought a multimedia appetizer might be just the thing to get you started when you want to dig a little deeper into an issue? C&#39;mon in and share...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/bios/" title="Last updated: last year">Biological Innovation for Open Society</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 57</span><br /><span class="subtitle">BIOS is an evolving international initiative focused on systemic change in innovation systems to democratize problem solving. BIOS recognizes that creativity in biological innovation underpins all aspects of human health and environmental sustainabil...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/bizplanbuzz/" title="Last updated: 42 weeks ago">Biz Plan Buzz Group</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 297</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Join here if you have a social venture or philanthropic project you want to brainstorm with others, with an eye to creating a business model and business plan. Start your own &quot;discussion&quot; page within this group for your project. Read and comment on the ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/blacklists/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Blacklists: Just say &quot;No!&quot; to</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 13</span><br /><span class="subtitle">I would like to have a group where we can publicly declare things we **disapprove** of -- a kind of &quot;just say no to ABC&quot; area. ==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Bl...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/myvoicematters/" title="Last updated: last year">blank</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 0</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/bookclub/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Book Club</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 87</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group for folks to form an online book club. Each book can have its own discussion, or organize as it makes most sense to you. Participate in as many (or as few) as you like.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/survivorssupport/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Brain Injury SurvivorsSupport</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A source for ideas/information/inspiration/feedback/support for survivors of brain injury and those who support them (families/friends/volunteers/health care professionals/administrators). Fluid.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/3-day/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Breast Cancer 3-day</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Dear Friends, The weekend of October 21st, 2005 I&#39;ll be participating in a very special and powerful event in the fight against breast cancer. It&#39;s called the Breast Cancer 3-Day. This will be my third walk. My first two were in New York in 1999 and 20...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/braingym/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Bridges and Brain Gyms</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 15</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Lost in the local lingo and want to find better ways to connect? C&#39;mon in and explore some of the ideas and terminology people are using to describe better world building activities, and share a few of your own. Exploring featured words and phrases wi...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/deathpenalty/" title="Last updated: 42 weeks ago">Broadening the death penalty dialogue</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 42</span><br /><span class="subtitle">How can we use the Internet to broaden -- and deepen -- the dialogue around the death penalty? What tools are at our disposal? How do we engage those who favor the death penalty in a safe, constructive discussion? Who should we reach out to?</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/buddies/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Buddies</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 22</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group for discovering and connecting Better World Buddies, to connect people from arbitrary geographical, cultural, age, socio-economic, and personal categories from around the world. It is particularly focused on connecting people who are Fa...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/bbsg/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Building Better Students Group &gt;&gt; BBSG</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 28</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This launch of the Building Better Students Group is being seeded by some of the Chief State School Officers selection of &quot;teachers of the year&quot; from over the past 52 years. We&#39;re simply inviting some of the best and brightest teachers in the United St...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/issues-business/" title="Last updated: 30 weeks ago">Business</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 334</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Every sector has reasons to look at business issues that impact both organizations&#39; and people&#39;s success.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/campfire/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Camp Fire</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 20</span><br /><span class="subtitle">*I think of this place as an extension of the &quot;Do Something Moments&quot; discussion sparked by Tom Munnecke. This is a spot to park your hat, slide onto a log and loosen the shoelaces. To gather &#39;round with your cup of coffee or &#39;smores. A crackling place t...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/candidates2008/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Candidates 2008 Election Campaigns / Campaigning</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 28</span><br /><span class="subtitle">We want to exchange ideas and engage in projects towards making good things happen in 2008! .. contents:: Goals Analyze Value Systems ==== Very fundamental: knowing what we care about. Inform Voters ==== Connect Communities of Interest ==== Enumer...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/issues-cyf/" title="Last updated: 19 weeks ago">Children - Youth - Families</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 259</span><br /><span class="subtitle">What&#39;s important in developing all kinds of families and in working with young people.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/clash_of_faiths/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Clash of Civilizations - Cultivating Tolerance and Understanding of Different Faiths</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 22</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The foundation for much of the current and historic frustration in the world is the belief that one&#39;s faith and precepts are superior to all others and, in some cases, one&#39;s faith justifies hate and violence. Every major faith has its examples of faith...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/h2o/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Clean Drinking Water</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 33</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The CleanDrinkingWater_ group is about working together to bring clean drinking water to those who have never had this basic necessity. .. _CleanDrinkingWater: /group/h2o/CleanDrinkingWater</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/cwc/" title="Last updated: last year">Clothes With Conscience</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">ClothesWithConscience will facilitate the building of relationships and ethical exchange of value between wealthy 1st world customer&#39;s and 2/3rd world female entreprenuers who own their own custom &quot;art&quot; clothing businesses.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/cm_testing/" title="Last updated: last year">CM_System_Testing</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 1</span><br /><span class="subtitle">We created this group to help us test various features of Omidyar.net</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/coffee/" title="Last updated: 17 weeks ago">Coffee Klatsch</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 12</span><br /><span class="subtitle">* Just finished a book and you know it&#39;s significant but you just haven&#39;t put the pieces together to figure out how? * Had an idea and you are sure it&#39;s the key....but you&#39;re not sure where the lock is? * Just need someone to work through ideas with?...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/children/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Collaborative Children&#39;s Project Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 31</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group was born of a desire to showcase and collaborate between grassroots projects working with children all over the world.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/cfp/" title="Last updated: 20 weeks ago">Collaborative Funding Project</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 58</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Omidyar Network hosted a $50,000 team-based collaborative funding project with the omidyar.net community June 1 - 30, 2006. .. sidebar :: VOTING IS OVER Members can now review the results by clicking the polls_ tab. In this funding project: - The...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/collaborative/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Collaborative Project Designs - Designing Collaborative Software / Projects</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 40</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== Collaborations.US_ - About.Collaborations.US_ - Collaboration.Collaborations.US_ .. _Collaborations.US : http://collaborations.us .. _About.Co...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/commens/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Commens Commons</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A group devoted to Semeiotic, C.S. Peirce et cetera. Commens is a mutual mind ... necessary for communication. Semeiotic is the Doctrine of Signs, called for by John Locke, etc. C.S. Peirce is the father of Pragmat(ic)ism and leading figure of Semiot...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/community/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Community</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 4</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Contains groups that are focused or based on omidyar.net.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/community-general/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Community - General</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 19363</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Everyone on omidyar.net is a member of this group -- feel free to talk about anything you feel other members might be interested in. Get to know each other, share tips and techniques, have fun!</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/workspot/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Community Centers &amp; workspot</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 29</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Many people around the world use computers without owning them. They work at a friend&#39;s house, an institution or an Internet cafe. They share resources, but very little helps them to consolidate their identity and maintain continuity. Community center...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/cd/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Community Decisions</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 18</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Community Decisions Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, links &amp; c...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/community_stories/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">Community Stories</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 17</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group hopes to share the stories of good things happening in the world because of connections and activities made through online community and networks. * Stories can revolve around individuals. What has happened that you know of because of an ind...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/compumentor/" title="Last updated: 24 weeks ago">CompuMentor/TechSoup Project Development</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 78</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is an experiment in opening up Compumentor&#39;s project development process in a very action-oriented way. We will soon--within the next two weeks--be opening several discussions to start the process. Each discussion will concern a specific pro...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/conference/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Conferences</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 136</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is for planning, documenting and sustaining o/net Conferences. Oak Park (Chicago) hosted events in July 2005 and 2006. Other events are planned for Blaine, Washington and Kampala, Uganda! Please join us for `ONgoing gatherings`_! Also, fe...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/hearts/" title="Last updated: 38 weeks ago">Connecting Hearts</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 99</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A space to talk about and ultimately develop whatever it takes to make &quot;it&quot; happen with local communities of youth, adults, and families. .. image:: http://www.whirlingrainbow.com/images/heartbeat.gif For a list of Connecting Heart Initatives see our ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/connectors/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Connectors and the Tipping Point</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 159</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is inspired by Malcolm Gladwell&#39;s book, &quot;The Tipping Point.&quot; &quot;tipping point&quot; n. In epidemiology, the concept that small changes will have little or no effect on a system until a critical mass is reached. Then a further small change &quot;tips&quot; ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/consensusengine/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Consensus Engine Planning Zone</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 16</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group&#39;s purpose is to store and manage discussions reguarding the design and implementation of the Consensus Engine tool. I&#39;ll update this description as more details develop. The proposal for this project was discussed on the `Consensus Engine t...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/food/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">Cooking &amp; Restaurants</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 67</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Please tell us your secrets in the kitchen. Share recipes and discoveries. Wine and Beer is included. Tell us about new and old places you Love to eat. How does food extend a culture. How do changes in cooking feed more people. Of interest also wou...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/corporatesocialresponsibility/" title="Last updated: 33 weeks ago">Corporate Social Responsibility</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 150</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Corporate Social Responsibility &gt;&gt; ideas for making businesses better The idea here is fairly straightforward. A thread is started for a particular company, service or product. Contribute to the thread in such a way that we are offering specific ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/sudancrisis/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Crisis in Sudan Group</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 166</span><br /><span class="subtitle">REMINDER!! this discussion will be archived, effective **September 7, 2007** ------------------------------ To continue the discussion on Sudan, go to &lt;Ned&gt;: http://www.ned.com/group/community-general/news/2/ ================== How it all Started ====...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/communications/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">CRM :: Communications, Reports &amp; Messages</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 4</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: CRM : Communications + Reports + Messages Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/culture/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Culture and Community</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 96</span><br /><span class="subtitle">An area to discuss how many diverse cultures share the common bond of community and the need to work together to thrive.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/appreciation/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">DAILY APRECIATIONS project</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 36</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The main goal of this DAILY APPRECIATIONS project has been to increase our awareness of whom and what we appreciate. We would like to thank you all for contributing more than 2608 appreciations on more than 105 pages as of Sept. 6, 2007! Research ha...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/dancelabs/" title="Last updated: 22 weeks ago">Dance Labs</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 17</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. IMAGE:: http://www.dancelabs.com/img/DanceLabs+header_name.gif .. RAW :: HTML &lt;a title=&quot;Anyone can be a leader (&agrave;&sup1;&fnof;&agrave;&cedil;&bdquo;&agrave;&cedil;&pound;&agrave;&sup1;&dagger;&agrave;&cedil;&agrave;&sup1;&Dagger;&agrave;&sup1;&euro;&agrave;&cedil;&rsaquo;&agrave;&sup1;&Dagger;&agrave;&cedil;&trade;&agrave;&cedil;&oelig;&agrave;&cedil;&sup1;&agrave;&sup1;&permil;&agrave;&cedil;&trade;&agrave;&cedil;&sup3;&agrave;&sup1;&bdquo;&agrave;&cedil;&rdquo;&agrave;&sup1;&permil;)&quot; href=&quot;http://flickr.com/photos/98973695@N00/227113680&quot; &gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.flickr.com/73/227113680_b1b4fcd80...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/december1st/" title="Last updated: 45 weeks ago">December 1st</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 37</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Supporting December 1st World AIDS Day, with resources, group ideas, aggregating friends of groups, etc. </span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/progressive_values/" title="Last updated: last year">Defining Progressive Values</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 35</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Media survey group interested in capturing and defining the values with which we wish in develop in our children, thus in our society.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/srm/" title="Last updated: last year">DEFUNCT-SRM</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Was a public group, but not really needed any more.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/democracy/" title="Last updated: 28 weeks ago">Democracy &acirc;&euro;&ldquo; General</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 34</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group will look at trends in democracy, including its spread and decline in nations. Topics of relevance are many, including the impact of technology on democracy (or e-democracy), citizen participation (i.e. issues of institutional design), delib...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/deutsch/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Deutsch</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Deutsch Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, links &amp; content will ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/diabetes/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Diabetes: Support Groups + Information by/for Patients</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Diabetes Mellitus Information Homepage ==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/institutionalization/" title="Last updated: 17 weeks ago">Dialogue and Deliberation, Institutionalization, and Radical Change</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 44</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is for practitioners and researchers in the fields of dialogue and deliberation. Our discussion will focus on the forms of individual and cultural change that are preconditions for and/or products of dialogue and deliberation -- and on how t...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/dad/" title="Last updated: 39 weeks ago">Digital Activists for Democracy</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 9</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The internet is an interconnected realm where freedom of speech reigns and &quot;intellectual property rights&quot; are quickly being replaced by &quot;open sourcing.&quot; The tools of international communication and access to a world of ideas and resources are available...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/dlas/" title="Last updated: 42 weeks ago">Digital Lifestyle Aggregation</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 29</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The time has come for integrated, agrgeagted and highly customizable environments be created to help end-user &quot;hub&quot; their on-line lives together. Digital Lifestyle Aggregators (DLAs) are how to do that. Based upon open standards and open source, this ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/din/" title="Last updated: 19 weeks ago">Direct Intervention Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A group intended to stimulate ideas for direct intervention in terms of donated items which could be made available to an individual American living in poverty. Our &quot;Jane Doe&quot; being represented by a single mother on welfare benefit or in low paid emplo...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/sciforgood/" title="Last updated: 27 weeks ago">Doctors and Scientists for Good</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 20</span><br /><span class="subtitle">M&Atilde;&copy;decins Sans Fronti&Atilde;&uml;res, Engineers without Borders, the recent data collection efforts by computer scientists to locate missing persons with Hurricaine Katerina, ways to fight malaria, virtual reality technology to enable the disabled, alternative sour...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/drugs/" title="Last updated: last year">Drugs</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 24</span><br /><span class="subtitle">All about drug use, abuse, addiction, recovery and rehabilitation. When does use become abuse. Is nicotine more addictive than heroin? Is the CIA really supplying crack cocaine? What have been the effects of reclassfying Cannabis as a Class C drug i...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/economics/" title="Last updated: 24 weeks ago">Economics</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 98</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A place to discuss a broad assortment of topics dealing with economics; Currencies, World Economies, Stock Exchanges, Economic Policymakers, Micro/Macro Economics, etc.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/education/" title="Last updated: 51 weeks ago">Education</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 124</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This community focuses on ways of improving our educational process, values, shared connections between classrooms, and extending the Omidyar Network Spirit to helping our children.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/issues-education/" title="Last updated: 25 weeks ago">Education</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 215</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Covering the education spectrum, from early childhood to post-secondary to adult learning.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/eae/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Effective Alumni Engagement</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 8</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A place for learning about effectively engaging alumni.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/effectiveonet/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">EffectiveONet</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 67</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. sidebar:: What&#39;s Hot ProcessIntegration_: Looking past the $25k, Coming together to build an integrated grant-making and proposal support process!! TutorialTourOfWiki_: A quick introductory survey of the topic of Wiki_. TabbedBrowse...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/election/" title="Last updated: 46 weeks ago">Elections and Democracy</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 116</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group, which initially focused just on the &quot;2004 US Election,&quot; explores the broader issue of elections and democracy, including areas such as how to increase voter turnout, promote democracy, and guarantee safe and fair elections (primarily but not...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/efn/" title="Last updated: 17 weeks ago">Emerging Futures Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 85</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Emerging Futures Network ---- http://www.emergingfutures.net members_ `Subscribe to our e-list`_ Visit the `Emerging Futures Network wiki`_ .. _`Subscribe to our e-list`: http://www.emergingfutures.net/email-lists/ .. _`Emerging Futures Network wik...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/empower/" title="Last updated: 48 weeks ago">Empowering Individuals in Community</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 26</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A place to foster and encourage each other&#39;s growth and empowerment, in hopes of furthering the ideal of building empowered communities of contributing individuals.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/energy/" title="Last updated: 36 weeks ago">Energy, Sustainable</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 35</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Making a worldwide transition from fossil fuels to sustainable, non-polluting sources is probably the biggest &quot;good thing&quot; I can think of to help make happen. * It would solve global warming * It would take away a major incentive for global WARRING too...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/ent/" title="Last updated: last year">entrepreneurship education using internet technology</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 61</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Supporting (future) entrepreneurs through education is a popular instrument to increase the level of entrepreneurship and indirectly contribute to a sustainable alleviation of poverty. But there is an opportunity to enhance the value of this instrumen...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/enumino/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">eNumino &amp; aNomino</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The fight against spam, spoofing and &quot;phishing&quot; is a combination of legislation (national &amp; international), technology and user involvement (education and action). Everybody forgets that an e-mail is a postcard not even dropped in a postbox... Few know...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/issues-env/" title="Last updated: 20 weeks ago">Environment - Conservation</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 235</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Preservation and enhancement of the world&#39;s natural resources and ecosystem is the topic.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/epihealth/" title="Last updated: 40 weeks ago">Epidemic of Health</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 41</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group which focuses on ways of implementing the vision of Jonas Salk to create an epidemic of health. &quot;Only a few are needed to visualize and to initiate a process that would become self-organizing, self-propelling, and self-propagating, as i...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/equiforum/" title="Last updated: last year">Equiforum, Inc.</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 2</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Equiforum is a non-profit with a mission &quot;to improve the scientific basis for resolving conflict peacefully&quot;. The first project is to bring to maturity a data standard. CRML (Conflict Resolution Modeling Language) is based on RDF/OWL of the Semantic Web...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/makeover/" title="Last updated: 40 weeks ago">Extreme Makeovers for Better World Scouts</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">*Instead of rules, why not examples?* This space is an invitation to help celebrate two things: 1) people who have discovered within themselves the power to make good things happen, and are looking for ways to cultivate the &quot;better world scout&quot; withi...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/farming/" title="Last updated: 34 weeks ago">Farming</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 25</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A group for members wanting to discuss farming techniques and projects in general or in specific geographical locations.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/federation/" title="Last updated: last year">Federation of Communities</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 43</span><br /><span class="subtitle">How can we, or should we, attract new and existing communities into Omidyar.net? What features would best support such groups? Could or should Omidyar.net evolve into a federation of communities, a community of communities? (C.f, State, Federal, and Loc...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/wellness/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Feeling Well</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Feeling Well : Incetives / Programs to Personal / Group / Corporate Well-Being / Happiness Online Help / Support Groups Network =...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/food-on-foot/" title="Last updated: last year">FOF</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 4</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/future/" title="Last updated: last year">Foresight Development</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 8</span><br /><span class="subtitle">As the rate of technological change continues to accelerate, it is more important then ever that we have a broader perspective on what the future holds. This is a group to discuss how to develop foresight in order to navigate towards a better future. ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/political_moderation/" title="Last updated: 44 weeks ago">Fostering a moderate discourse and leadership</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 30</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Studies have found that most Americans, whether Democrat, Republican or Independent, have what would be considered moderate convictions - typically some combination of differing degrees of liberal and conservative beliefs. And yet, our political discou...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/francophonie/" title="Last updated: 27 weeks ago">Fran&Atilde;&sect;ais et Francophonie / French speaking</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 41</span><br /><span class="subtitle">**Dans ce groupe on parle le fran&Atilde;&sect;ais** - *Il y aussi des discussions dans les deux langues, et chaque* &#39;workspace&#39; *contient un r&Atilde;&copy;sum&Atilde;&copy; en anglais* **In this group we speak French** - *There are also some bilingual discussions, and an English speaking ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/freehugs/" title="Last updated: 17 weeks ago">Free Hugs Around the World</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 8</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Join us in offering free hugs to all throughout the world and celebrate with us how beautifully this movement is growing.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/freehouses/" title="Last updated: last year">freehousesproject</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 7</span><br /><span class="subtitle">FREE HOUSES is the name of a new television series I would like you folks to help me create. This is to put all of the words and intent on this site into a very real concrete highly visable representative action of what like minded people can ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/french_tags/" title="Last updated: last year">French Tags</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 9</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is dedicated to: - Propose French tags with oninclude directive - Test a *parallel/complementary* tagging system with the `del.icio.us toolbar`_ - A test of collective mapping with `IHMC CmapTools`_ - Other tests anybody want to try wit...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/magnets/" title="Last updated: 26 weeks ago">Fridge Magnets</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 33</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Found something innovative that you&#39;d like to draw people&#39;s attention to? It might be a project or idea being cultivated here within omidyar.net, or something you&#39;ve found elsewhere that you want to let people know you&#39;re getting behind. Use this &quot;dig...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/foatl/" title="Last updated: 17 weeks ago">Friends of Heroes - Putting a Face on Childhood Cancer</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 7</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Visit us on Razoo at http://beta.razoo.com/groups/friendsofheroes Friends of Heroes, formerly Friends of Allie is the largest national Friends and Family Light The Night team in The Leukemia &amp; Lymphoma Society&#39;s history. The team was originally created...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/fun5-project/" title="Last updated: last year">Fun 5 - A physical activity &amp; nutrition program</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Fun 5 Project (www.hmsa.com/community/programs/fun5/) During the past twenty years, the percentage of young people who are overweight has almost doubled. This is despite the numerous known benefits of regular physical activity during childhood which in...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/funstuff/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Fun Stuff</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 132</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Fun Stuff Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, links &amp; content wil...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/games/" title="Last updated: 25 weeks ago">Games for Social Good</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 90</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group will discuss gaming technology as it relates to improving human behavior.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/gardclub/" title="Last updated: last year">Garden Club</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 14</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Garden types. Gardening tips. Favorite flowering plants. Different soils. What works in different climates. Using native plants. Hopefully some virtual tours.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/geekrev/" title="Last updated: 18 weeks ago">Geek Revolution</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 16</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Documentation to develop an international online project to establish a collaboratively maintained, democratically run network infrastructure for educational purposes and to promote geek activism. Please take a look at the Workspace for more informatio...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/genealogy/" title="Last updated: last year">Genealogy &amp; Family Stories</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A discussion group to talk about where we come from, family legends, mysterious ancestors, immigration histories and the colorful stories passed down from one generation to another.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/general/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">General</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 12</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Contains groups that don&#39;t belong in other categories.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/gi-net/" title="Last updated: last year">Genocide Intervention Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net) envisions a world in which the international community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. **Our mission is to empower individuals and communities with the tools to p...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/preventgenocide/" title="Last updated: 17 weeks ago">Genocide Prevention</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 56</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group will focus on long-term strategies for prevention of mass atrocities and genocide. The discussion will look beyond the immediate aspects of halting a particular genocide, such as in Darfur, to ways of stopping genocide before it begins or i...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/getlocal/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">GET Local</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">GET stands for Global Energy Transition, which I founded in 2001 after writing an open letter to George W. Bush. http://www.go2zero.com/adechert/solarletter.html Art Goodtimes suggested that the letter might carry more weight if, besides all the end...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/oxfam/" title="Last updated: last year">Give it to someone who can do more good with it (Oxfam)</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 24</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Give the money to Oxfam and get a real return. .. image:: http://omidyar.makingithappen.co.uk/oxfam.gif This group was formed to put forward the suggestion that perhaps rather than risking money on the wild and wacky, we should put the money somewhere...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/givingcommons/" title="Last updated: last year">Giving Commons - for Giving Tools, Builders and Stewards</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 32</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is dedicated to exploring The Gift and the erotic life of property. Lewis Hyde&#39;s book_ can be the jumping off point for imaginative explorations, and will form the background for practical design and implementation initiatives that are the fo...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/givingspace/" title="Last updated: last year">GivingSpace</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 59</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group to continue the work of GivingSpace http://www.givingspace.org. Archives of the discussion list are at http://collab.givingspace.org/forums/community/ </span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/global_corruption/" title="Last updated: 40 weeks ago">Global Corruption Group</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 18</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This Group is to discuss issues and possible solutions to the problem of corruption in the world. According to a 1997 World Bank report, corruption is an abuse of public power for private gains. http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/Prin...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/globallives/" title="Last updated: 20 weeks ago">Global Lives Project</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 12</span><br /><span class="subtitle">An online video encyclopedia of human life experiences. A unique video installation that can be set up by anyone anywhere on the planet. A collaboration of filmmakers, architects, photographers, artists, programmers and designers from around the world.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/solutionsecology/" title="Last updated: last year">Global Solutions Ecology</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 30</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group will examine systems that promote the human capacity for solving problems, reveal the dynamics and resources essential for arriving at solutions, encourage cross-fertilization to adopt and adapt successes, and nurture a global environment tha...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/globalvoices/" title="Last updated: last year">Global Voices</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 38</span><br /><span class="subtitle">We believe in free speech: in protecting the right to speak -- and the right to listen. We believe in universal access to the tools of speech. To that end, we want to enable everyone who wants to speak to have the means to speak -- and everyone who wan...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/goodapples/" title="Last updated: last year">Good Apple News Service</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 24</span><br /><span class="subtitle">THis is a community to discuss the Good Apples News Service which emerged from the Positive Media discussion group.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/goodquestion/" title="Last updated: 41 weeks ago">Good Question!</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 26</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Consider this little Brain Gym a firestarter for hungry neurons. Ever come across a really good question? One that makes you think about something in a new way, or perhaps something you hadn&#39;t really thought about at all? Add it to the deck. Random ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/grampol/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Grammar Police</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 21</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Pedantic and playful discussions of word usage, grammar, and slang. Word play. Puns. Dialects. All things pertaining to written and spoken language.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/grassroots/" title="Last updated: last year">Grassroots Tech Co. -- Vision &amp; Advice for YackPack</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 14</span><br /><span class="subtitle">YackPack, the company I started over two years ago, is finally out of stealth mode (whew! -- stealth is no fun). We&#39;ve received angel funding, and we&#39;re growing as effectively as we can. I&#39;m now seeking help and advice . . . My dream is to make YackP...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/greatnews/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Great News</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The media is often so full of discouraging news. This is where we can make some difference. Heard of any Good work from our government individuals, Agencies or citizens? Post your links, stories or comments here.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/happiness/" title="Last updated: 50 weeks ago">Gross National Happiness</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 22</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Gross National Product is a very poor indicator of a society&#39;s &quot;health&quot;. Gross National Happiness, on the other hand, is an appealing alternative. It takes into account the spiritual and general well-being of the population. Let&#39;s talk about the possibi...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/peace_/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Guns - The freedom to kill people and be killed</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 0</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The right to bear arms, is touted as the architypal freedom of the American citizen, yet guns are used to kill more people in America than anywhere else in the world. Is this really a freedom, or are people being suckered by the government. 1/ It is a...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/haiti/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">Haiti Help</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 8</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Discussions about relief and economic development projects in Haiti. Haiti is the poorest country in this hemisphere.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/happeneering/" title="Last updated: 26 weeks ago">HAPPENEERING - Helping people to discover the greatest difference they can make, and helping them to make it happen in the greatest way it can.</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 25</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The Omidyar Network exists to enable more and more people discover their own power to make good things happen. Some people might need some help toward both discovering this power; some might need help toward applying this power toward making good thing...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/on-ixb/" title="Last updated: last year">Hawaii Sustainability</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">ON internal group at the present time</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/healheroesworld/" title="Last updated: 26 weeks ago">Heal the Heroes, Heal the World</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Exploring ways we can help one another heal, and, in turn, how we can practice tikkun olam and thereby heal the world.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/issues-health/" title="Last updated: 25 weeks ago">Health Care</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 171</span><br /><span class="subtitle">From theory to policy to practice, all aspects of medicine and health can find a home here.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/help/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Help</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 7</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Contains site help and other official documentation. - Please post only questions about how to use the site. - For other posts - please check out `the Community General group`_. - For helpful information, select the &quot;workspace&quot; tab above. .. _`...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/helping/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Helping</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 26</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== Primary Location: http://Helping.Be ==== Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, lin...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/highheartherd/" title="Last updated: last year">High Heart Herd</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 8</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A group interested in living in High Heart and using Transformational Processes in conjunction with our Equine cofacilitators to accomplish our personal soul missions as we nudge the world into becoming a better place. To join you should have a clear s...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/homowo/" title="Last updated: 24 weeks ago">Homowo African Arts &amp; Cultures</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Homowo African Arts &amp; Cultures began as a dream... Can we build an organization here in the United States to spread the rich cultural traditions of Ghana, West Africa? So many of `Obo Addy&acirc;&euro;&trade;s`_ memories of his childhood and youth are entwined with the ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/microformats/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">How microformats can improve &quot;Better World projects&quot;</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: The Use of Microformats for a Better World Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should b...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/safety/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">http://www.omidyar.net/group/safety</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 3</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Safety is a place to share information on safety that you feel will benefit others. For example, I have an article to post that was written by the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of The American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world&#39;s most expe...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/humantrafficking/" title="Last updated: 22 weeks ago">Human Trafficking</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 82</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A space to strategize, share information and networks, and to build the global movement against human trafficking!</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/hm/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">Humanist Movement - moving to AboutUs.org</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 0</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is moving to http://AboutUs.org/HumanistMovement</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/hu-internal/" title="Last updated: last week">Humanity United - Internal</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 20</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This Group has been established for Humanity United Staff&#39;s use only.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/huadvisory/" title="Last updated: 43 weeks ago">Humanity United Advisory Board</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/iact-darfur/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">i-ACT Darfur</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 18</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a place to discuss and decide on strategies and execution methods for realizing the full potential of i-ACT Darfur: to be one of the most inclusive and powerful civilian responses to genocide ever. http://stopgenocidenow.org/iact</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/icosystem/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Icosystem - Internal</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Private discussion space for CFM and Icosystem.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/idaho/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Idaho Development</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 4</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a collaboration on a new community that has a wi-fi cloud of connectivity and a 100% source of renewable energy in a very pristine Idaho mountain valley.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/image_of_america/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Image of America</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 19</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The American Dream of &quot;Freedom &amp; Democracy for all&quot; is fragile, There are people in this Nation who feel that select groups have more say than the whole. Democracy is founded on &quot;We the People&quot; (All the People). As long as America is perceived as &quot;not ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/humansourcecode/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">Improving the Source Code of Humanity</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 34</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This Group exists to focus on Changing the Critical Lines of Humanity&acirc;&euro;&trade;s Source Code that are most likely to bring about the most positive societal impact. This will involve two steps: 1. Identifying the line or lines of Humanity&#39;s Source Code that cont...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/salcar/" title="Last updated: last year">Increase Healthcare Access</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Approximately 166 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean are partially or totally excluded from access to health goods and services. A solution to this problem can be found. The purpose of this project is to better understand the current bar...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/india/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">India</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 14</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== Primary Location: http://ind.ind.in ==== We are interested in organizing information that has to do with or is about India, Indian people, etc. ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/vistaindia/" title="Last updated: last year">India Rollout of the VistA Healthcare System</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 15</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A group with a focus on catalyzing healthcare delivery in India using the world class VistA software system. A national rollout is a major project that requires a wide range of skills and expertise. The technical component is one of the minor ones and ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/goodfactory/" title="Last updated: last year">Infectious Good Factory</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 28</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Want to help create a product that triggers a cascade of infectious good? No experience? No worries. Applying for this job has one criteria: heart. In response to Tom Munnecke&#39;s exploration of &quot;infectious good&quot;, and heralded by a question he shar...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/innocentcry/" title="Last updated: 47 weeks ago">Innocent Cry - Children of Armed Conflict</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 47</span><br /><span class="subtitle">All over the world, innocent children are spending their lives languishing in IDP and refugee camps, sold into slavery, kidnapped and turned into unwilling soldiers, and worse. When children are raised with no hope, what kind of adults will they grow...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/inspirational_photos/" title="Last updated: last year">Inspirational Photos</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 12</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group will hopefully remain as a place where we can either post inspirational photos or at least links to inspirational photos. It would also be great if the person posting the photo could also provide a high quality version of the photo for those ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/intelifaqs/" title="Last updated: 27 weeks ago">InteliFaqs</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 26</span><br /><span class="subtitle">InteliFaqs&#39; is using technology, software, the &#39;Arts&#39; and &#39;Inspiration&#39; to create, invent and deliver &#39;new&#39; jobs, business and manufacturing systems, in the prospect of eradicating poverty, joblessness and homelessness in industrialized nations. http:/...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/intellectual-contributions/" title="Last updated: 17 weeks ago">Intellectual Contributions</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 38</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. admonition:: Intellectual Contributions - A discussion of Copyright and related rights in a digital information world. *&quot;If we as a society want to facilitate the development of artistic culture, copyright doctrine should recognize rights of access...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/intelligent_design/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Intelligent Design</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 29</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Our group challenges limitations of imagination as we strive to identify and realize plans and programs that offer sustainable development&acirc;&euro;&rdquo;especially for people whose lives are directed by poverty and its limitations. We seek to integrate strategies of...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/interests/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Interests</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 3</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, links &amp; content will be updated in the comin...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/ihcenter/" title="Last updated: last year">International Humanities Center</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">http://www.ihcenter.org The International Humanities Center&#39;s mission is to work with other independent nonprofit organizations and sponsored projects that are devoted to a vision of ecological and humanitarian stewardship that benefits all of creation...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/i4c/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Internet4Change</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 52</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. image:: http://www.internet4change.com/9/3/logos/075x060.gif | **Online Community Learning** | A cross-cultural eXperience from `LifeInAfrica`_ on Onet .. _`LifeInAfrica`: http://lifeinafrica.com --------------- This Onet group is where Life i...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/ic/" title="Last updated: 35 weeks ago">Invisible Children</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 34</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group will facilitate actions on behalf of the goals of the Invisible Children NPO&#39;s work for Ugandan children and families. It will also provide an arena for discussions of IC activities, goals and events in Uganda, the US and elsewhere. These y...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/ireland/" title="Last updated: last year">Ireland</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 9</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Place for all Irish</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/issues/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Issues</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Contains groups focused on particular issues.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/issues-general/" title="Last updated: 32 weeks ago">Issues - General</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 102</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Issues that don&#39;t fit in any of the specific issue groups.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/jag/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Jagran</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 4</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/jean/" title="Last updated: 18 weeks ago">Jean&#39;s thing ~ Nurture</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 28</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Norbert suggested I create a group to work on my project--that maybe a project would be an interesting use of group. So this will be a space to develop what I have thus called NurturingU or MetaService. It is about me, in some ways, since it is my visio...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/jobs/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Job Listings &amp; Job Seekers</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 138</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Job Listings (Help Wanted) &amp; Job Seekers (Jobs Needed) If you know of an opening that fits with the Omidyar.net values, post it h...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/justdemocracy/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Just Democracy</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 1</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Just Democracy is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization, founded and led by law students. Across the nation, JD&#39;s chapters will staff high risk polling places on Election Day with law student volunteers to help voters exercise their righ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/jac/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Justice Action Center, New York Law School</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 3</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The Justice Action Center brings together New York Law School faculty and students in an ongoing critical evaluation of public interest lawyering. Through scholarship and fieldwork, the Center seeks to evaluate the efficacy of law as an agent of change ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/juvenilementalhealthcourtproject/" title="Last updated: last year">Juvenile Mental Health Court Project</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 15</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The Juvenile Mental Health Court Project of the Child &amp; Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (http://www.bpkids.org) fosters the creation of diversionary court programs (juvenile mental health courts) for youth with serious neurobiological disorders (bipolar, ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/katrinarefugee/" title="Last updated: 50 weeks ago">Katrina refugee data entry project</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 22</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Group to organize volunteer data entry of refugee information from across the web.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/kenya/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Kenyan Online Development Association (KODA) Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Kenya : Kenyan Online Development Association (KODA) Network Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.n...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/keywords/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Keyword Search DINO :: Direct Navigation Engine Optimization</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 14</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The focus of this group is **management**: We seek to enable precise meanings of words and/or keywords. We wish to *enlist* **subject specialists** who understand: 1. language and/or jargon 2. culture and/or communication 3. management 4. commerce ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/givingarts/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Kids+Art+Charity = Giving Arts</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 14</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is a place to share ideas and support tangible projects and partnerships that bring together these three things: - PURPOSE: Teaching giving/philanthropy/empathy - VEHICLE: Creative, visual arts programs, workshops and projects - VEN...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/knowslavery/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">kNOw Slavery to NO Slavery</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 32</span><br /><span class="subtitle">kNOw Slavery to End Slavery! Did you know that there are 246 million children slaving across the world? Millions are trapped in bondage, prostitution, trafficking, and other illicit activities. NO country, NO region, NOT a single place on this earth is...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/topicmaps/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Knowledge Organization</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 49</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A place to continue sharing ideas, resources and inspiration around Jack Park&#39;s invitation to explore Topic Maps. </span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/lap/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">LAP</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 4</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Explore LAP -- a local access protocol -- with Max Gail. A Journey through Community, LAP is a BIG little word within which lies some keys for the in-formation transformation patterned after natural systems. Transformation cannot be extracted like a co...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/udaleaders/" title="Last updated: last year">Leadership Team for Universal Digital Access</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is for discussions for team members of `Learning by Doing Technology Labs`_ for several projects. Although this group is invitation, membership is open to anyone interested in helping acheive the goals described for the Leadership Team for U...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/lec/" title="Last updated: last year">Leisure, Entertainment &amp; Creativity</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 40</span><br /><span class="subtitle">is related to Sports, Movies, TV, Music and Hobbies. Group is general by design. Please join us here and appreciate experience that makes us each unique and the same. A bit of what you do when not in front of a computer. Film making, Photography, and...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/lia/" title="Last updated: 17 weeks ago">Life in Africa</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 140</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Who was here? ----------- In 2005, Ashoka Fellow Christina Jordan joined Omidyar.net in the search for a comfortable place to bring Life in Africa community members in Uganda actively online in a global space that would welcome, nurture, and support t...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/listening/" title="Last updated: last year">Listening</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 14</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is about collaboratively learning how to listen effectively.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/localglobal/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Local Global</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 44</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Local Global... how to do local stuff on a global scale. At the O-Net conference in Chicago, we started talking about the importance of making effective local action -- where the most effective action usually takes place -- ripple across the globe. Th...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/where/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Local Search</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 4</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Where (Local Search) Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, links &amp; ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/logolink/" title="Last updated: last year">LogoLink: Local Government Learning Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 7</span><br /><span class="subtitle">LogoLink is a global network of practitioners from civil society organisations, research institutions and governments working to deepen democracy through greater citizen participation in local governance. LogoLink encourages learning from field-based in...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/foodchain/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">lost in the FOOD CHAIN moved to Ned.com</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 247</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. sidebar:: NED to Ned.com **After 9/7/07** Ongoing &lt;Ned&gt; &amp; most FOOD CHAIN discussions and members have moved to http://www.ned.com, if what you read here intrigues and excites you, please come join us. Exploring, analyzing, chatting about `(and so...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/homesezown/" title="Last updated: last year">low income housing</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 7</span><br /><span class="subtitle">To strive to achieve funding to take the action of developing low value housing from the 15,000,000 empty houses in the USA as EZOWN HOMES for the 30,000,000+ low income folks in the USA. The houses are sitting empty and useless while billions of dolla...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/luni/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Lunatics Unlimited</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 9</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group I have set up for those of us who don&#39;t fit in to the normal stuff and for those who live their lives on the outside and on the edge, we plan to create off the wall fundraising ideas that would make a difference and would be off the rada...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/macho/" title="Last updated: 44 weeks ago">Macho Youth Leadership Development Foundation</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">We exist because of the need to mentor youth through developing and facilitating the development of potentials, visibilities and capacities of the youth. Through supporting youth&#39;s education and information technology skills development, a well informed...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/mf/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Malaysia Forum</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/alternative_spaces/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Marginalized_Voices_in_Democratic_Deliberation</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Alternative Spaces: Including Marginalized Voices in Democratic Deliberation is a group of researchers and practitioners who are investigating how voices of marginalized and excluded groups can be included in spaces for democratic deliberation. Case r...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/allmath/" title="Last updated: last year">Mathematics for everything and more</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 61</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Mainly around three components: * mathematics has been a central part of human experience and growth from the very beginning. It is certainly not an occidental thing and it should not be a monopoly of specific groups or professions. * We have accumula...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/success/" title="Last updated: last year">Measuring Success</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 34</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Success A destination or a journey? Measuring Success as a newcomer. My view may differ from many. Success is a progressive realization of a goal that has been properly forecasted and implements measurement stages that are realistic. Rewards and oppo...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/meditation-yoga/" title="Last updated: last year">Meditation and Yoga</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 22</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group explores the benefits and challenges of meditation and yoga practices.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/mentorart/" title="Last updated: last year">MentorArt</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 3</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A team of artists, educators, mentor connectors and digiterati working together on an International Arts Festival and Mentoring portal.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/microus/" title="Last updated: 37 weeks ago">Microfinance</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 269</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a space to discuss and learn more about the past, present, and future of microfinance. It is open to both theory and application, both microcredit and the larger topic of microfinance, and both non-profit and for profit initiatives. We originall...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/microfinance_usa/" title="Last updated: last year">Microfinance experience for USA</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 9</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Microcredit and microfinance; great news about Grameen Bank and Muhammad Yunus. There is Worldwide recognition and millions of winners. There are many other names in USA who provide similar missions to help poor countries, poor nations. There is no othe...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/midwest/" title="Last updated: 25 weeks ago">Midwest US and Nearby Canada</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 30</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Items of specific interest for people in the Midwestern States of the US or the Nearby Provinces of Canada belong in this group. This could include information and planning for regional meetings or work on specific regional issues and opportunities.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/rmballe/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Mile High Business Alliance</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The Mile High Business Alliance is a non-profit membership organization of local Denver Metro businesses and supporters working to transform and model an economy built on sustainable practices. We envision sustainable business practices that lead to a h...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/housing/" title="Last updated: 22 weeks ago">mindwiped</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 0</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/psc/" title="Last updated: 20 weeks ago">mindwiped</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 0</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/mobilize/" title="Last updated: 30 weeks ago">Mobilize</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 17</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group was started by Mobilize.org as a means to continue the discussion and interaction between Mobilizer Teams and affiliates throughout the country. To start, we are hoping the tools of Omidyar.net will help to continue the conversations started...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/architects/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Modern Architect</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Discuss and collaborate on all aspects of Architecture. Modern Architect refers to Today&#39;s Architect, not necessarily the style, although that is also my favorite style so I like the double meaning.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/modo/" title="Last updated: 35 weeks ago">Modo Fac Central</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 12</span><br /><span class="subtitle">To share my ideas and plans for Modo Fac Central which is going to be a second generation social enteprise. Also to find people to give me criticism and feedback so please dive in and let me know what you think.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/musiclandband/" title="Last updated: last year">MUSICLAND BAND</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group will focus on The MusicLand Band and was set up as a requirement for the &quot;fund a proposal tool guidelines.&quot; There will be different pages about different things being done with the MusicLand Band and other ways of influencing children with m...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/native/" title="Last updated: last year">Native Cultures</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 7</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A space for Native interests - policial, social, cultural. For native or indigenous peoples from all over the planet and anyone interested in learning and contributing. Some ideas of what activity in this group could include: * What are the problems ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/natbiznow/" title="Last updated: 45 weeks ago">Natural Business Now</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 31</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Natural Business Now involves sustainovation.org members, the startup social-profit designfluence.org, based in the Silicon Valley, and other interested parties globally. We are interested in companies and individuals who model, act and expand upon the...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/ned/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">Ned moved to Ned.com</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 81</span><br /><span class="subtitle">**&lt;Ned&gt;** a better world experience .. sidebar:: NED to Ned.com **After 9/7/07** Ongoing &lt;Ned&gt; discussions and members have moved to http://www.ned.com, if what you read here intrigues and excites you, please come join us. &lt;Ned&gt; (a philanthropic fr...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/nick/" title="Last updated: 18 weeks ago">Network of Integrated Consumer Knowledge</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 36</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The Network of Integrated Consumer Knowledge is about advancing social causes by giving consumers the information they need to make responsible decisions. As they shop, users will be able to access reviews, ratings, certifications, prices, policies, lin...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/networkcentricadvocacy/" title="Last updated: 18 weeks ago">Network-Centric Advocacy</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 211</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This project is aimed at building a &quot;how-to&quot; guide for understanding the ways that network theory can be applied to building power and capacity in social change contexts. *Objectives:* http://www.omidyar.net/group/networkcentricadvocacy/ws/index/#obj...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/netchange/" title="Last updated: 19 weeks ago">Networked Theory of a Better World</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 217</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group to discuss social transformation and change from the perspective of networks, complexity theory, and adaptive systems. It looks at the role of values, trust, and community, and ways of creating self-organizing, self-propagating virtuous...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/on-ixa/" title="Last updated: last year">Networks</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 13</span><br /><span class="subtitle">ON internal group at the present time</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/neacr/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">New England Chapter of ACR</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 8</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The New England Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution - Board of Directors Collaborative Workspace</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/nmw/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">New Media Works</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 60</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== New Media Works ==== We want to research and develop any/all forms of online media. That&#39;s a pretty broad scope -- please help us by introducing us to what your focusing on right now. Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses wil...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/newsocialenterprises/" title="Last updated: 19 weeks ago">New Social Enterprises</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 291</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A group for those interested in new social enterprises, both for-profit and nonprofit. For social entrepreneurs, funders, and those who like sharing ideas about the social sector. Not for pie-in-the-sky musing, but for discussion of real projects. Co...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/nlp/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">NLP and Language</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 22</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. admonition:: Content under Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 .. image:: http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/us/88x31.png :target: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ I&#39;ve placed all the content I&#39;ve added here on omidyar.net...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/nonam/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Non American</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 27</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Hi Everyone, Welcome on board, I guess when I set this up I was thinking that the main forums are all a bit focused around America some of us are a bit left out by not knowing where Oakland is, or being in a time zone where it is 2am and we are still ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/npblogs/" title="Last updated: last year">Nonprofit Blogs</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 12</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A place to list nonprofit blogs found in the nonprofit blogosphere. This group will help bring together nonprofit blogs found through nptech, net2, nonprofit blog exchange, and other places.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/nu_group/" title="Last updated: 24 weeks ago">NU_Group</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 31</span><br /><span class="subtitle">NUIndex_ .. _NUIndex: http://www.omidyar.net/group/nu_group/ws/nuindex/ This group is about forming new relationships that allow us to create an environment of reeee seaf galdee **REEEE** Relevant, Effective, Efficient, Enjoyable, Elegant ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/nyaisig/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">NY Appreciative Inquiry Special Interest Group</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 4</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The New York Area Appreciative Inquiry Special Interest Group, formed through the Organizational Development Network of Greater New York on December 15, 2004. It is our hope to create a supportive community of practitioners to bring more strength based ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/oclu/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">O.net Civil Liberties Union</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 19</span><br /><span class="subtitle">&lt;FIRST DRAFT&gt; **The OCLU is a non-partisan, watch-dog group that concerns itself with protecting most forms of free speech from the concentrated attacks from select individuals or small groups.** The objective is not to circumvent the o.net point syst...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/townhall/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">O.NET TOWN HALL</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 50</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. sidebar:: O.NET TOWN HALL The date for the next O.NET town meeting is August 6-8, 2006. See: `ONET TOWN HALL`_ Everyone who is a member of omidyar.net is encouraged to participate. Come all ye! .. _`ONET TOWN HALL`: http://www.omidyar.net/...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/bond/" title="Last updated: 35 weeks ago">O/Net Bond: Local, Regional, International</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 55</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group facilitates local, regional and international connections here on O/Net. Workshops and conferences, local meetups, consultant/project board by geography and other user-created tools for coming together. Please tell us about yourself, your a...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/offerads/" title="Last updated: last year">OFFERED ADS - Offers, Networking Contacts or Freebies</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 25</span><br /><span class="subtitle">STATEMENT OF INTENT This is not a discussion group. Treat it as a resource. Treat it as the Offer Ads/Freebies section of o.net. The group is intended to provide a one-stop entry point for anyone looking to offer an introduction, .... or to simply po...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/mini-action/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Omidyar Mini-Action Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 136</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Our community can work together as a group to make projects happen one at a time, with a goal of one a month. It is preferable that they be small projects that don&acirc;&euro;&trade;t require much in the way of cash (the first one up only needs frequent flyer miles). W...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/on/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Omidyar Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 144</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Omidyar Network ---------------- Welcome to the Omidyar Network group on omidyar.net. Omidyar Network is committed to unleashing human potential on a global scale. We invite you to: - See a financial overview of `Omidyar Investments`_ - View a co...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/on-internal/" title="Last updated: last week">Omidyar Network - Internal</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 74</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This Group has been established for Omidyar Network Staff&#39;s use only.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/on-internal2/" title="Last updated: 3 weeks ago">Omidyar Network - Internal 2</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 33</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This Group has been established for Omidyar Network Staff&#39;s use only. .. image:: https://www.omidyar.net/group/on-internal2/file/5.37.11625937375/get/welcome.png :target: https://www.omidyar.net/group/on-internal2/ws/</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/on-archives/" title="Last updated: 28 weeks ago">Omidyar Network Archives</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 12</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Archives group for Omidyar Network</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/enzyme/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Omidyar Network Enzymes</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 3</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Internal group of Omidyar Network.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/commstrat/" title="Last updated: last year">Omidyar Network Exec Team</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 4</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Omidyar Network executive team workspace.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/gallery/" title="Last updated: 37 weeks ago">Omidyar Network Gallery</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 15</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The Omidyar Network Gallery is a showcase of works related to the members and projects of this community. We feature artwork and creative sparks from members, project photos and images, multimedia links and abstract installations. Shows can be as wi...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/on-ix/" title="Last updated: last year">Omidyar Network Information Exchange</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">space for Omidyar Network staff use</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/on-ix2/" title="Last updated: 41 weeks ago">Omidyar Network Information Exchange 2</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 30</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Omidyar Network internal information space</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/on-ix3/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Omidyar Network Information Exchange3</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 2</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Omidyar Network internal information space</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/api/" title="Last updated: 37 weeks ago">omidyar.net API</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 8</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is for users of the omidyar.net API.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/tag/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">omidyar.net Tags</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 28</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This *could* be a central repository for a poor-man&#39;s tagging system.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/on_intelligence_community/" title="Last updated: last year">ON Intelligence Community</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">UNDER CONSTRUCTION, group just started Wednesday, Jan 5, afternoon. But the following is the initial vision. * `Discussion Directory`_: Help build the omidyar.net discussion directory, so that the cool stuff is easy to find! .. _`Discussion Direct...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/microfinance/" title="Last updated: 20 weeks ago">ON Microfinance</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 117</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Microfinance Group ================== In the last year, Omidyar Network has funded a range of microfinance initiatives, partnering with a wide network of people and organizations. Together, we are working toward a collective goal of accelerating the gr...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/onet4africa/" title="Last updated: 34 weeks ago">Onet 4 Africa</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 66</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Onet 4 Africa is a welcoming, action oriented space for finding workable solutions to the range of *practical &amp; logistical challenges* that arise in the course of our African Uplift activities at Onet. Members of this group share lessons learned about ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/onetbloggers/" title="Last updated: 37 weeks ago">ONet Bloggers Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 22</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Members of this group are engaged in using blogs as a form of **Omidyar.net community outreach and engagement** in the **blogosphere** and in the **broader internet community**. By re-publishing our personal ONet posts to our blogs or by otherwise using...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/guideservice/" title="Last updated: last year">Onet Guide Service</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 29</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The Guide Service will provide one-to-one assistance for new members to Omidyar. New members will not need to seek out the service; experienced Guides will reach out directly to the newcomers. A dedicated Guide will help a new member find their feet, le...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/search/" title="Last updated: 38 weeks ago">ONet Members Search Assistance Service</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Some of us believe that we in the West often assume that because some people who are living in developing countries and have access to the internet, it is therefore easy for them to conduct extensive web searches to find out who else there may be who is...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/ontime/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">ONTime</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 15</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. image :: http://www.omidyar.net/group/ontime/file/3.30.11399474303/get/ONTimeWatch2.png :alt: CLICK HERE to see ONTime news. :target: /group/ontime/ws/index/watch `Submit News`_ View `Archive`_ .. _`Archive` : /group/ontime/ws/archive/ Ed...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/opencapital/" title="Last updated: 19 weeks ago">Open Capital</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 22</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Open Capital is the concept of partnership finance through the sharing of risk and reward. Risk is shared through a guarantee society or clearing union, where trade credit between buyers and sellers is subject to a mutual guarantee. Revenues are share...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/odf/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Open Document Format Research &amp; Development</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 4</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Open Document Format Research &amp; Development Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/opened/" title="Last updated: 52 weeks ago">Open Education Initiative</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Everyone should have the same opportunity for a first rate education. By freely providing university courses via the Internet, any person on the web can have the opportunity for self betterment. Let&#39;s get involved to encourage universities to join th...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/open-source/" title="Last updated: 35 weeks ago">Open Source</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 140</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is about Open Source as in open source software, but also open source as a mindset of giving and doing good things first. Many discussions have been started on the topic. Let&#39;s create a group!. Please join us to sponsor it!</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/osi/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Open Source Infrastructure</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 14</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group dedicated to helping to create and promulgate open standards for new kinds of micro-content. The idea is that shared servers filled with media, people, events, reviews, topics - and yes Pierre - Listings - will eventually be real. Ther...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/openspaceresearch/" title="Last updated: 25 weeks ago">Open Space Research</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 33</span><br /><span class="subtitle">For a place to discuss and Research &#39;Open Space&#39; concepts</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/openvoting/" title="Last updated: 47 weeks ago">Open Voting</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 23</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Open Voting was pretty well described in a 1993 paper by the late great Irwin Mann: http://archive.cpsr.net/conferences/cfp93/mann.html Not a lot of people were listening at the time. What we have wound up with is a quirky and corrupt voting system. ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/openonet/" title="Last updated: 45 weeks ago">OpenOnet</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 16</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is for users to work on improving the omidyar.net software openly.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/opokfarms/" title="Last updated: 18 weeks ago">Opok Farms Planning</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 15</span><br /><span class="subtitle">As this project grows there are multiple conversations happening that I&#39;d like to consolidate in a group. Also needing wiki spaces and would not like to clutter up the lia group with it all.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/orgs/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Organizations</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Contains categories of organizations.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/orgs-general/" title="Last updated: 47 weeks ago">Organizations - General</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 96</span><br /><span class="subtitle">For organizations that don&#39;t fit in other categories.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/general-other/" title="Last updated: last year">Other</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 86</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/oursacredcenter/" title="Last updated: 19 weeks ago">Our Sacred Center</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">**Our Sacred Center** **Within Rests the Power of God** It is something that connects us, makes us whole and gives us peace. It is an experience of complete harmony within and outside of ourselves with everyone else who is exactly as we are and we are...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/p2p/" title="Last updated: last year">p2p Foundation</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">P2P Foundation ============== The Foundation for P2P Alternatives aims to foster research on the emergence of P2P forms of human organisation, and to develop a theory of emancipation congruent with our times. URL = http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.p...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/p2paid/" title="Last updated: last year">p2pAid</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Vision ====== Many of us have worked remotely and online in situations of emergency, attempting to contribute where possible with information, knowledge and resources to alleviate extreme human conditions. Information and communication are powerful t...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/pandef/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Pandef</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is an internal group. If you are a member, please proceed to `Home Page`_. .. _`Home Page`: /group/pandef/ws/index</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/parenting/" title="Last updated: 35 weeks ago">Parenting</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 23</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A place to offer stories, insights, to get and give advice and anything else on the subject of parenting. For parents who are trying to raise children in the best way they can, and to learn more about themselves and have fun in the process.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/partygroupies/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Party Groupies</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 7</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a place for FUN!!, we can use this space to link to some of the most obsurb anti-any-party pages on the net.. and if anyone decides that they wish to post similar remarks thruout the Omidyar Network, they just might find thier postings added here.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/pbj/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">PBnJ</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 3</span><br /><span class="subtitle">An experimental connection between a group of five amigos who are working to cultivate specific projects.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/rlopeace/" title="Last updated: 22 weeks ago">Peace Pages.</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 16</span><br /><span class="subtitle">With respect to World Peace and Peace Tiles, WE wanted a set of Peace Pages where all of the energy, great and small, is directed toward various kinds of peace. From the pastoral to the militant, this is the place where individual writing, ideas, effor...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/peacepark/" title="Last updated: 26 weeks ago">Peace Park</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Building a Peace Park in a way to protect and develop community space that encourages instrospection and reflection through nature, beauty, diversity and culture. </span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/peacetrek/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">PeaceTrek</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 12</span><br /><span class="subtitle">THE CONCEPT PeaceTrek is a youth centered program providing a &quot;Trekking&quot; experience that will contribute to cross cultural understanding and peace. The program is an incubator for lifestyle changes that will encourage new, Sustainable Living lifestyle;...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/philanthropy/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Philanthropy</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 110</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A place to share the magic and joy in giving service, creating miracles, and contributing love in a combined effort to shape our world.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/massphilanthropy/" title="Last updated: last year">Philanthropy - Massachusetts, USA</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 80</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This Omidyar.Net group is for everyone who is interested in the effectiveness of the philanthropic sector in Massachusetts. The Bay State consistently earns a high rank on the United Way&#39;s &quot;State Of Caring Index,&quot; and very low one on the Catalogue For ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/philanthropytoolmakers/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Philanthropy Tool Makers of Omidyar.net</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 22</span><br /><span class="subtitle">As an extension and expansion of the original OMIDYAR NETWORK request to Omidyar.net community to work out a tool to &quot;find/vet/decide&quot; on philanthropic investments/donations we are starting this group to be the &quot;Philanthropy Tool Makers&quot;. The resulting ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/podcasting/" title="Last updated: last year">Podcasting</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 25</span><br /><span class="subtitle">In case you haven&#39;t heard, Podcasting is the big freight train that&#39;s quickly bearing down on broadcast media. It&#39;s the production of audio content specifically for the purpose of distributing it as MP3&#39;s over the internet. These podcasts are download...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/poetry/" title="Last updated: 18 weeks ago">Poetry</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 30</span><br /><span class="subtitle">For every one to do concise &amp; precise wordings on interesting topics to optimize the fun or wisdom within this great network</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/issues-pol/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Policy - Politics</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 177</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A good place to work with all levels of representative government, including public sector employees and the populations they serve.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/pci-npcc/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Policy Consensus Workgroup</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A space to collaborate on projects with the Policy Consensus Initiative and the National Policy Consensus Center. This is an experiment in using Omidyar.net&#39;s collaborative tools to overcome distance.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/podis/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Positive Discourse</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 52</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group will address the emerging disciplines of understanding systems from the perspective of positive, life-affirming qualities of humanity. This includes Positive Psychology, Appreciative Inquiry, Positive Deviancy, and the general perspective of...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/poverty/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Poverty</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 193</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Dedicated to the proposition that global poverty is a problem we can solve in our lifetime. Convinced that poverty is one of the worst problems facing mankind and the root of many social and environmental pathologies. Interested in causes, effects and...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/poverty_in_america/" title="Last updated: 28 weeks ago">Poverty in America</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 88</span><br /><span class="subtitle">In a nation as resource rich as America, how on earth can there still be people living in poverty here? This Group is setup to index discussion and links that might lead to helping in the elimination of this phenomenon.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/private/" title="Last updated: 28 weeks ago">Private sector</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 91</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Groups operating in the private sector should join this group.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/progressinmexico/" title="Last updated: 37 weeks ago">Progress In Mexico</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Showcase for Economic and Social Development Enterprize Projects in Mexico</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/theproject/" title="Last updated: 39 weeks ago">Project Development</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group for five of us to develop a project.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/property/" title="Last updated: last year">Property Networking Club</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 12</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Property Networking Club aim to put together all experienced and new property investors, this is a place where we can discuss about new ideas, forming business partnership and most important forming lifetime friendships, Property Networking Club aims to...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/public_art/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Public Art</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 8</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is intended as a place to discuss public art. This includes, but is not limited to the following topics: o Social Value and Benefits of Public Art o Existing Works of Public Art o Temporary Installations o Public Art Programs and Funding...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/living_democracy/" title="Last updated: last year">Public participation in environmental decision making</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 15</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group will discuss the theory and practice of public participation in environmental decision making. The insufficiency of public policy in the US and abroad that is designed to ensure a framework for a sustainable society is partially the result o...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/public/" title="Last updated: last year">Public sector</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 53</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Groups operating in the public sector should join this group.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/publish/" title="Last updated: last year">Publishing Our Book</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 3</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A space for developing book and publishing projects associated with `Emerging Futures Network`_. .. _`Emerging Futures Network`: http://www.omidyar.net/group/efn/ws/index/</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/pl/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Punta Laguna</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Biocultural diversity conservation in the Yucatan Peninsula</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/fp06/" title="Last updated: 22 weeks ago">Q4 Funding Project</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 85</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Update: Here&#39;s a link to the list of `organizations eligible for matching funds`_. Omidyar Network launched a new funding project with the omidyar.net community on October 30, 2006. .. _`organizations eligible for matching funds` : /group/fp06/ws/s...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/qmc/" title="Last updated: last year">Quality of Medical Care</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 36</span><br /><span class="subtitle">For the past two years I&#39;ve had a chance to assess the Private medical care &#39;from inside&#39; delivering services to various medical institutions... I would like that the Omidyar network of people contibutes to the issue of improving the quality of medica...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/rok/" title="Last updated: 45 weeks ago">Random acts Of Kindness</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 25</span><br /><span class="subtitle">One of the things I have considered a selfless act is randomly helping others, without notice or even without the beneficiary knowing it was you. This group is for opinion and information on what you think about or maybe what you have done that is cons...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/raredisease/" title="Last updated: 48 weeks ago">Rare and Orphaned Diseases</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 13</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A place for doctors, patients, scientists, families, counselors, philanthropists and advocates who are interested in rare and orphaned diseases to try to network online.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/rebuildnola/" title="Last updated: last year">Rebuilding New Orleans</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 9</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A connecting space, idea exchange and resource center for people working to rebuild post-Katrina New Orleans, and for those who&#39;d like to support these efforts.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/reflections/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Reflections on omidyar.net</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 35</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is intended to take a long term, introspective look at omidyar.net. Is the network growing and evolving according to its initial values? If there are future streses on the network (particularly, rapid growth rate), this community will be a p...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/exhibit/" title="Last updated: 43 weeks ago">Refugee Exhibit</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 4</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a private group to work on creating an exhibit for children about the issues surrounding the world&#39;s 20 million refugees.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/regional/" title="Last updated: 48 weeks ago">Regional</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 46</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Groups focusing on particular regions of the world belong here.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/issues-religion/" title="Last updated: 42 weeks ago">Religion</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 133</span><br /><span class="subtitle">All aspects of spirituality and theology, from religious to secular, can be addressed here.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/biofuels/" title="Last updated: last year">Removed</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 0</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Removed</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/pcmerits/" title="Last updated: last year">Removed</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 0</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Removed.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/rennaissancephiladelphia/" title="Last updated: last year">Rennaissance Philadelphia </a></span><span class="discreet">Members: 4</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The Rennaissance Philadelphia group is an space for nonprofits, social entrepreneurs, corporate representatives, legislators, funders and other individuals to come together to discuss Philadelphia&#39;s social and economic rennaisance. Over the last 10-15 y...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/fuck/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Resolved</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 1</span><br /><span class="subtitle">group disbanded</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/resources/" title="Last updated: 24 weeks ago">Resources for Omidyar.net Purpose</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 28</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group will offer resources (books, journals, articles, experts, conferences, etc.) providing information in support of the mission of the Omidyar Network: &quot;We exist for one single purpose: So that more and more people discover their own power to ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/revisioningjustice/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Revisioning Criminal Justice</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 17</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A place to explore healing, effective, and money saving solutions to the US criminal justice system. Now the leader in the percetage of people it incarcerates, here we will envision other paths and policies the US can take.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/rfp/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">RFP :: Requests For Proposals</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 3</span><br /><span class="subtitle">=================================== RFPS :: Request For Proposal Search =================================== Due to omidyar.net closing down, much of the archived discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will be replicated at several new web sites:...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/rhcf/" title="Last updated: 50 weeks ago">Rural Health Care Foundation</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 17</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. image:: http://static.flickr.com/100/313956851_aa23ef6224_s.jpg This group is for all people need to make the world alittle better place for the Rural Disadvantaged Communities in Africa Rural Health Care Foundation is a Non Profit Organization A...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/sailingclub/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Sailing Club</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 7</span><br /><span class="subtitle">I&#39;ve been meaning to create this group for a long time, but since the `Little Comedian`_ has been out of the water for more than a season, the need was not pressing. .. _`Little Comedian` : /group/conference/news/16/0/ The purpose of this group is for...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/solid/" title="Last updated: 18 weeks ago">SaltSpring Organization for Life Improvement and Development</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 29</span><br /><span class="subtitle">SOLID is a non-profit society dedicated to support and empower HIV-AIDS affected families in sub-Saharan Africa. We aim to provide a model for other communities to join us in the fight against poverty and HIV, resulting in committed global friendships. ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/vets/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Salute to Veterans</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 18</span><br /><span class="subtitle">for everyone and anyone. The primary goal is to encourage and support those helping other or those in need of support. We will send messages of support to people involved with Peacekeeping based on region and effort. It should be channelized in discu...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/savetheinternet/" title="Last updated: 42 weeks ago">save the Internet</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 18</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The future of the Internet is at stake. Network Neutrality is being dismissed. incumbents envision tiered access: can you spell digital divide squared? Coalitions are forming. What can we do? That&#39;s what this group is for: to figure it out and t...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/aids/" title="Last updated: 49 weeks ago">Scaling Up Public Engagement :: Experiments in Participation</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 21</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Join in a set of discussions that revolve around the conditions that enable the HIV/AIDS virus to thrive. Help us identify ways to successfully engage the public in this long-term effort and take personal action to end AIDS in your lifetime.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/scimice/" title="Last updated: last year">Science for Microenterprise</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 15</span><br /><span class="subtitle">SciMice Institute&#39;s o/net home page.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/scifro/" title="Last updated: last year">Science Frontier</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 26</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The Scientific Frontier group has been formed to give a home for the discussion of subjects such as the `Global Consciousness Project`_ which, while being scientific in nature, is definitely on the cutting edge of science. Nanotechnology would fall unde...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/secondlife/" title="Last updated: 26 weeks ago">Second Life</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 107</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A group for all things about the virtual world of `Second Life`_. .. _`Second Life`: http://www.secondlife.com</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/soundshadows/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Seeing Beyond Sight: Photographs by Blind Teenagers</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 35</span><br /><span class="subtitle">---------- JOIN this group (button below) to be in the loop on special off-line SBS events, news, or new stuff on O.net. ---------- This group is for collaboration among O/net members for the *Seeing Beyond Sight* project. The group was created summer...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/seniors/" title="Last updated: 35 weeks ago">Seniors of omidyar.net</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A welcoming space for seniors who are interested in making the world a better place. The purpose of this space is for 1) A place to meet others with similar interests and quality conversation 2) A place to brainstorm solutions that we can find indivi...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/services/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Services &amp; Service Listings</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 7</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Services Available ==== Due to omidyar.net closing down, much of the archived discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will be replicated at several new web sites: ==== Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/servicesinternal/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Services Information - Internal</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 3</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/shambles/" title="Last updated: last year">Shambles</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Shambles is an organization to support the international school communities (teachers, support staff, administrators, students and families) in 17 countries in South East Asia ... although it seems that lots of schools worldwide are now finding Shambles...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/whatworriesyou/" title="Last updated: last year">Shared Worries for a Better World</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 7</span><br /><span class="subtitle">One thing that really hit home with me while living overseas was that the world over, all people have more or less the same worries when it comes to things that they fear most. Enough food for the family, a place to live, those kinds of things. Let&#39;s s...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/sitedev/" title="Last updated: 2 hours ago">Site Development</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 20</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This internal group is for work related to the development of omidyar.net</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/skills/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Skills</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 3</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Skills Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, links &amp; content will b...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/srmint/" title="Last updated: 30 weeks ago">Sky River Management -- Internal</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 42</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Private group for internal Sky River Management discussions.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/slow/" title="Last updated: 34 weeks ago">Slow Conversations</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 15</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group dedicated to exploring ways of supporting high quality conversations by slowing down the pace of conversation to allow more reflective, focused dialog. Inspired by the Slow Food Movement, it seeks to restore the art of conversation to o...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/scnn/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Small Change News Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">In July, 2004 we cooked an idea at the Giving Conference in Chicago, that began as gBay, expanded into Giving Market and has been established in the world as Small Change News Network. It now lives at http://www.smallchangenews.org ...and I&#39;m wanting n...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/small_pond/" title="Last updated: 17 weeks ago">Small Pond Welcoming Space</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 289</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. admonition:: Welcome to the Small Pond Group! This page was created by some o-net users because some of us relative newcomers to o-net felt that o-net was too vast and difficult to navigate in the beginning. It is very easy to get lost in the hard...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/smartwomen/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Smart Women</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 47</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A place for conversation, connection, community, and great new ideas.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/socialenterprises/" title="Last updated: 38 weeks ago">Social Enterprises and Development </a></span><span class="discreet">Members: 7</span><br /><span class="subtitle">I would like to start this group to discuss and examine the role and effectiveness of Social Enterprises as a tool in development particularly community development and gender empowerment in US and developing countries. I would welcome your input and di...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/cso_reporting/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">Social Investment Marketplaces</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 28</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is a learning and sharing space for people driving the creation of social investment marketplaces, to share and learn from common challenges and be inspired by new ideas. This space is supported by Keystone Reporting http://www.keystonerepor...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/issues-soc/" title="Last updated: 18 weeks ago">Social Justice - Human Services</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 264</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The focus is on addressing the different needs of people of limited means or under-represented status.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/socialposters/" title="Last updated: last year">Social Posters. &quot;Your Power To Social Change&quot;.</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Social Posters. &quot;Your Power To Social Change&quot;. Do you want to change something in this society? Do you want to make people aware of the challenges in our society like teenage pregnancy, loss of self esteem due to excessive debt through credit cards et...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/social/" title="Last updated: 48 weeks ago">Social sector</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 131</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Groups operating in the social sector should join this group.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/socialsource/" title="Last updated: last year">Social Source</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Social Source is a model for supporting nonprofits with affordable, accessible and high quality technology. It relies on joining open source software development with an ecosystem of providers to effectively create, deploy and support nonprofit technolo...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/solseed/" title="Last updated: 21 weeks ago">SolSeed</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 33</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. on-include:: /solseed/SolSeed</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/inspire/" title="Last updated: last year">Sources of Inspiration</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 18</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Insights, Inspirations, Information. A place to recharge, cultivate, and inspire! Take a break, relax a bit, and share from the heart what is currently adding meaning to *your* world. Whether it be an insight, experience, story, quote, or information -...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/speakersnetwork/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Speaker / Consultant / Conference Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 14</span><br /><span class="subtitle">For those interested in working to develop a speakers/consultant/conference network that focuses on using strength-based, appreiciative and participatory methods for working with children, youth, families and communities. *The name of this group, our ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/sd/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Spiral Dynamics</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 19</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. on-include:: /sd/SpiralDynamics</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/friendly/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">SPSS :: Sustainable Products &amp; Safe Sustainability</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Sustainable Products &amp; Safe Sustainability Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/peace/" title="Last updated: 38 weeks ago">Stanford Peace Project for Kids</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 37</span><br /><span class="subtitle">We are seeking to bring about global harmony in 30 years by connecting kids around the world. Yes, this is an ambitious project. However, we believe today&#39;s technology opens new doors for global friendship and understanding. We also believe that friends...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/habit/" title="Last updated: 29 weeks ago">Start-up $omething</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 263</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Discuss the range of challenges and potentially help point to other groups and resources. Predominantly, we want to share and learn for the benefit of many. We will try to help evolve your concept, idea or cause, as you take the steps towards your goa...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/state-by-state/" title="Last updated: last year">State by State: ICT policy and practices</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 42</span><br /><span class="subtitle">In the United States, States can (and have) served as policy laboratories and incubators for new initiatives and programs. This is not particular to the Information and Communication (ICT) sector, though ICT offers a means of transforming the business ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/swa/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Student World Assembly</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 2</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group aims to seek out support for a relatively new nonprofit, the Student World Assembly (SWA). The SWA, founded in September 2003, endeavors to create and support a global democracy by connecting college students around the world, and encouragin...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/sudan_files/" title="Last updated: last year">Sudan File Space</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group has been created to accomodate the growing number of files necessary for all of the activities related to Sudan. Please continue to use the `Crisis in Sudan`_ group for your discussions. Thanks! .. _`Crisis in Sudan`: http://www.omidyar....</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/suggestions/" title="Last updated: 18 weeks ago">Suggestions for omidyar.net</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 146</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Intro ----- This group is dedicated to capturing member suggestions for how to make omidyar.net better for everyone. While all suggestions are appreciated as input to help us decide, the final decision for what gets implemented and how is made by the ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/susdev/" title="Last updated: last year">Sustainable Development</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 8</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Sustainable Development -concept and practice- are being defined since the last fifteen years for global/international institutions but the local areas are not having enough voice to be represented on how this can really work in small spaces, called com...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/sustainable_living/" title="Last updated: 24 weeks ago">Sustainable_Living</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 140</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Sustainability calls for personal transformation. It is not something that happens to someone else &acirc;&euro;&ldquo; it is something you do yourself. You do it for yourself out of personal conviction. It is about right values, right livelihood and right living (paraphr...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/tagging_sandbox/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Tagging Feedback</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 17</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Welcome to the Tagging Feedback group &acirc;&euro;&ldquo; formerly the &acirc;&euro;&oelig;Tagging Sandbox&acirc;&euro;. Give us your feedback --------- - The current version is a prototype that shows only some of the features that are possible. - Check out this `Tagging Feedback workspace`_ to...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/tnet/" title="Last updated: 2 weeks ago">Talloires Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 13</span><br /><span class="subtitle">===================== The Talloires Network ===================== Promoting the Civic Roles and Social Responsibilities of Higher Education ================ The Talloires Network is a collective of individuals and institutions committed to promoting t...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/currencies/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Targeted Currencies</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 109</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Currencies are the tools for catalyzing currents. Currents/Flows are what makes any living system (like a community, economy, ecosystem or organism) a LIVING sytem. This group is a place to explore transcending scarcity &amp; competition and learning to ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/issues-tech/" title="Last updated: 25 weeks ago">Technology</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 341</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Not just the Web: a place where all kinds of applied scientific and engineering knowledge are valued.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/techsoup_npsl/" title="Last updated: last year">TechSoup Nonprofits in Second Life</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 14</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a workspace for TechSoup - Nonprofits in Second Life. It houses our weekly meeting notes and pointers to resource information related to building a nonprofit community in Second Life.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/teens/" title="Last updated: 39 weeks ago">Teens</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 33</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group explores practices and programs that support teens in finding their own strength and in seeing the potential they have to create more good in the world. </span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/tmn/" title="Last updated: last year">Texas Death Penalty</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 9</span><br /><span class="subtitle">.. sidebar:: **C O N T A C T . I N F O** :Web Page: http://www.texasmoratorium.org :Phone: 512-302-6715 :email: admin@texasmoratorium.org .. line-block:: Texas Moratorium Network 602 West 7th St...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/thaied/" title="Last updated: last year">Thai Educational Reform</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 7</span><br /><span class="subtitle">I have been teaching in the Thai educational system in one form or another for 6 of the last 8 years. Like every other school system in the world, it needs work. Like most other school systems in the world it needs major work that is not easy. Thai tea...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/thaicollab/" title="Last updated: 41 weeks ago">Thailand: Online Collaboration Workshop</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 14</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group will be the umbrella group for a growing number of online collaborations in Thailand. If you represent a group doing online collaborations in Thailand, please feel free to associate with us! Please visit our `Welcome page`_ to see how to ge...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/thankfest/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">ThankFest 2005</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 5</span><br /><span class="subtitle">============== ThankFest 2005 ============== Thursday, September 1st, 2005 ============================= On September 1st, 2004, the question was ... - *Who are you going to thank today?* Today, the question remains the same. It&#39;s got the same power...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/eurodream/" title="Last updated: last year">The &#39;European&#39; Dream</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 17</span><br /><span class="subtitle">There&#39;s been quite alot of writing over the last year about a growing cultural divide in the United States -- and a growing cultural divide across the Atlantic as well. Books like, &quot;Of Paradise and Power&quot;(Robert Kagan; Knodf, 2003), &quot;A Declaration of I...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/blogalization/" title="Last updated: last year">The Blogalization Nation</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 17</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Blogalization / &quot;blO-a&amp;-l&amp;-&#39;zA-sh&amp;n / n.: &quot;to make worldwide in scope or application by means of cross-language blogging or other forms of collaborative communicative process.&quot; Blogalization is an open community of ad hoc communicators who post in one ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/constitution/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">The Constitution of Omidyar Net</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 65</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Using Omidyar.net as a living example of a new community being formed, let us ask what is its Constitution? For proft? Non profit? Ownership? Copyright? Rights and obligations? Public or Private?</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/thecorporation/" title="Last updated: last year">The Corporation and The Rule of Law</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 35</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Many of you have seen (or have read the book) `The Corporation`_. .. _`The Corporation`: http://www.thecorporation.com/ This group would explore coordinated action on some of the issues raised in the film. I&#39;m not stuck on the film... anyone with so...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/ideas/" title="Last updated: 35 weeks ago">The Effective Communication of Important Ideas</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 50</span><br /><span class="subtitle">How can we communicate ideas effectively in order to bring about social change? What fundamental principles and strategies are involved? What examples can we point to and learn from? </span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/ten/" title="Last updated: 25 weeks ago">The Emancipation Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 21</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A place to discuss TEN and for o-netters to get involved in its growth.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/freecycle/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">The Freecycle Network</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 4</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Welcome to The Freecycle Network, or freecycle.org. We are a nonprofit organization empowering individuals to give items to each other in their local communities on a global scale rather than throw these items away (a sort of free ebay or cyber curbside...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/gcc/" title="Last updated: last year">The Global Classroom Connection</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 53</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The Global Classroom Connection was created to establish meaningful and enduring personal connections among young people of vastly different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds in order to lay the groundwork for a generation with a broader and more ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/global_marshall_plan/" title="Last updated: 18 weeks ago">The Global Marshall Plan</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A group intended to promote discussion of Global Marshall Plan concepts and strategies, as advocated by the Global Marshall Plan Initiative at http://www.globalmarshallplan.org/</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/sleep/" title="Last updated: last year">The Joy of Sleep</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 15</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Sleep quality directly affects our mental and physical health. Yet most adults don&#39;t make sleep a priority. Many people live in a state of constant sleep deprivation, which has negative effects on emotions, cognition, social relationships, and abilities...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/indexshowcase/" title="Last updated: 33 weeks ago">The Omidyar Network Index &amp; &#39;R&amp;D&#39; Showcase</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 118</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The Omidyar Network has attracted many very good, worthy and interesting proposals, projects and ideas. This Group is designed to serve as a **&#39;General Index of the Proposals, Business Plans &amp; Projects&#39;** that can be found on the Omidyar Network site. p...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/showcase/" title="Last updated: 17 weeks ago">The Omidyar Network Proposal Showcase</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 458</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Omidyar Network Proposal Showcase is a place to submit proposals and get feedback on those proposals from anyone on omidyar.net. There will soon be a new group that will serve as an index for proposals on the network and it will be linked here when it i...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/thoughts/" title="Last updated: last year">Thoughts for the day</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Did some simple word just struck a chord in you? Did a small action of a child remind you of something more? Did a thought just cross your mind to deliver an answer to a long buried question? Did you just understand something in a more profound way? I c...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/tbfa/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">To Be for All</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">If you would like to announce something, write about something, do something or whatever -- then you can do so here. MG started this with a different focus -- I figure it may as well be put to some use. This group follows the `Stop&amp;Go`_ rules (being d...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/tcs/" title="Last updated: last year">Toasters, Cats, and Snowflakes</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 15</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group to collect activities relating to a book that Tom Munnecke is writing called Toasters, Cats, and Snowflakes. This book will contain essays on topics relating to complexity theory, chaos theory, adaptive systems, positive psychology, lin...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/top/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Top</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group contains the top-level groups.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/transition/" title="Last updated: 13 weeks ago">Transition</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 581</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Remaining transition schedule: ---------------- :Sep 7: All content on the omidyar.net platform was frozen as it exists. Only the &quot;About Me&quot; section of one&#39;s own profile is editable. :Sep 7 - Dec 31, 2007: Existing omidyar.net members can si...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/travel/" title="Last updated: 40 weeks ago">Travel &amp; Wanderlust</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 85</span><br /><span class="subtitle">|Omidyar Earth| Tell us your travel adventures, plans and expectations. Share experiences and how the culture exposure has helped you understand the world. Help can remove some barriers for others in transiting Global borders. Did you meet locals ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/trikone/" title="Last updated: 3 years ago">Trikone</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 3</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Trikone is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people of South Asian descent. Founded in 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Trikone is the oldest group of its kind in the world. South Asians affi...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/tsunami/" title="Last updated: last year">Tsunami, Aid &amp; Reconstruction</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 43</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The reasons for dedicating a new group to the issues arising from the Asian Tsunami disaster are quite simple. First, to provide a single gateway to new and existing discussions on the Tsunami disaster. This will require the support of the omidyar.net ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/twwwt/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">TWWW Thailand</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group will focus on events and programs that will facilitate making **The World We Want** in Thailand.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/cal/" title="Last updated: last year">UC Berkeley</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 20</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group seeks to increase UC Berkeley&#39;s participation in the Omidyar Network, and to support high-impact, student-led projects, with initial funding from the Omidyar Network Enzyme initiative, the Center for Information Technology Research in the Int...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/cmps80j/" title="Last updated: 20 weeks ago">UCSC&#39;s CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social Issues</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 101</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is a part of UC Santa Cruz&#39;s Computer Science 80J course entitled &quot;Technology Targeted at Social Issues.&quot; The main focus of this course is to give students the opportunity to explore how technology can be used to change the world. Students ar...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/uk/" title="Last updated: 17 weeks ago">UK Social Enterprise</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">There is much innovation within the UK social enterprise movement, which includes the development of the community interest company and incorporation into government policy and yet more ideas such as Open Capital asset based finance and the Limited Liab...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/upw/" title="Last updated: last year">United People of the World</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 21</span><br /><span class="subtitle">We want to bring to gether people who share a few fundamental ideological beliefs. **All members can edit this group** **Goals:** 1. Create a SOP (Statement of Principals) that we all share. 2. Support activities that are in line with our SOP. **Re...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/uplift/" title="Last updated: 23 weeks ago">Uplift Academy</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 91</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The uplift academy is an organization designed to discover and replicate patterns of uplift in a highly scaleable manner.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/expeditions/" title="Last updated: 24 weeks ago">Uplift Expeditions</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 25</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Purpose: To learn about the ways that time-limited &quot;expeditions&quot; might be used to quickly gather natural allies and resources together to produce a knowledge product about a specific uplift opportunity. To share these knowledge products with both the o...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/up/" title="Last updated: last year">Urban Prosperity Initiative</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 26</span><br /><span class="subtitle">The Urban Prosperity Initiative advocates the development and implementation of actionable business models that serve and empower individuals who are currently at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Please see http://www.omidyar.net/group/up/ws/Projects...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/countvotes/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">US Count Votes</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 11</span><br /><span class="subtitle">US Count Votes was created to develop a national precinct-level election-results database, a crucial foundation for scientific analysis of the accuracy of vote counting that is currently missing in the United States. A comprehensive database of elect...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/valuebond/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">Using http://www.ValueBond.co.uk to give something back to society</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 2</span><br /><span class="subtitle">http://www.ValueBond.co.uk is a charitable online shopping channel which allows consumers to give to charity without costing them a penny every time they shop.The objective of this group is to foster support for this project globally as it is currently ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/utility/" title="Last updated: last year">Utility Software - Open Source</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 33</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is the place where you can suggest new open source utility software. Even your own tips, tricks, suggestions and experience</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/vase/" title="Last updated: last year">VASE - Vancouver Aboriginal Social Enterprise</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">VASE is a community driven initiative to promote early childhood development within the urban aboriginal community. The business plan is to build a social enterprise based on the creation of a line of Aboriginal centric ECD products. The goal is to turn...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/veggieexperiences/" title="Last updated: last year">Vegetarian &amp; Flexarian Experiences</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 14</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group is for: 1) Vegetarians or flexarians (frequent vegetarians) to exchange vegetarian experiences and tips in living the vegetarian ways. In other words, how is being vegetarian impacting your life? 2) For non-vegetarians interested in taking up...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/venphil/" title="Last updated: 39 weeks ago">Venture Philanthropy</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 79</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A discussion of the issues and challenges faced by the venture philanthropy community. Questions to be considered: 1) What philanthropic models work best?; 2) How do you measure social results?; 3) In its short life, is VP making a difference -- what ar...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/village/" title="Last updated: last year">VillageTheGame</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">About: Village (www.villagethegame.com - HQ out of Stanford, CA) is an educational multiplayer online real-time strategy game for the PC that immerses the player into the role of an [social] entrepreneur building companies to bring prosperity to the v...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/violations/" title="Last updated: 34 weeks ago">Violations of the Self (mind/body/spirit/etc)</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">What is rape? Can a woman rape another woman? What is the difference between sexual harrassment and hitting on someone? Does someone have to be purposeful in his/her actions in order to be abusive? Hopefully, we can discuss these questions and other...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/vip-psychotherapy/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">VIP-Psychotherapy</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Volunteers In Psychotherapy (VIP) aims to correct problems managed care and cutbacks at public clinics have brought to psychotherapy. VIP provides truly private therapy in exchange for substantial volunteer work our clients provide independently and pr...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/visions4africa/" title="Last updated: 29 weeks ago">Visions4Africa</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 27</span><br /><span class="subtitle">**21 June 2001** - Spring changes into summer In this space, I am coming out of the closet, so to speak, with some of the stranger part of me. Taking a deep breath as I begin to type... During the week **before** the World Trade Tower attacks on 11 ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/wam_atl/" title="Last updated: 39 weeks ago">WAM_Women Advancing Microfinance - Atlanta</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">WAM-Atlanta is a member of `WAM-International`_, Women Advancing Microfinance. This group will be used as a place for members of the Atlanta group to communicate and to work on projects together. From the WAM-Int&#39;l website: The mission of Women Adva...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/wantedads/" title="Last updated: 25 weeks ago">WANTED ADS - Help, Advice or Networking Contacts</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 152</span><br /><span class="subtitle">STATEMENT OF INTENT This is not a discussion group. Treat it as a resource. Treat it as the *Want Ads* section of o.net. The group is intended to provide a one-stop entry point for anyone looking to build networks of contacts, solicit an introduction...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/wdi/" title="Last updated: 25 weeks ago">WDI: Simple Solutions to Waterborne Diarrheal Illnesses</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 28</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This group arose out of the Q4 2006 Omidyar funding proposal. The intent of this group is to work towards elimination and treatment of waterborne diarrheal illnesses. We see this happening in lifting awareness, focusing on solutions to the problems and...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/we/" title="Last updated: 2 years ago">We Are Americans</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 19</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a group set up by `Barbara Spalding`_ to discuss the role and status of immigrants in America, and how we can improve their status and our appreciation for what immigrants have done for America. .. _`Barbara Spalding` : http://omidyar.net/user/...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/bastardsofthebeat/" title="Last updated: 48 weeks ago">We Got The Beat</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 20</span><br /><span class="subtitle">We Got The Beat &gt;&gt; damn good music talk If music is your sickness; this is your disease baby. Rarely does an hour go by there&#39;s not some music playing at the office or in the house. Good music does good things for the soul and spirit. :: ...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/design/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Web Design :: Designing Websites That Work</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Web Design :: Designing Websites That Work ==== Due to omidyar.net closing down, much of the archived discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will be replicated at several new web sites: ==== Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see ht...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/empowerment/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Web Empowerment :: Tools &amp; Techniques</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 6</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Empowerment : Empower Your Life Online! Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be l...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/web/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Web Wonks</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 136</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Lets discuss usability, interface and Design-Development. Multimedia, Gaming, Tools and System software, Open Source, Commercial content management and syndication. Sites you like and dislike. Announce your site or Beta. Site marketing, promotion and...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/welcome/" title="Last updated: 32 weeks ago">Welcome Wagon</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 173</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A Newcomer&#39;s FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)? Greeters? Tour guides? A Front Porch? Buddies? Connecting &quot;Connectors&quot;? Other such tools? This group is to work on anything to make it easier for new people to become acclimated to this network so t...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/liveonwhat/" title="Last updated: 24 weeks ago">What Constitutes a Living Wage?</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 14</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A subject of much interest to me as of late. Having completed Peace Corps service during which I made $600 US a month and taking a job at a great non-profit upon return, at which I made $270 US per month after paying for health care, I am curious to se...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/windmills/" title="Last updated: last year">Windmill Tilting Society</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 46</span><br /><span class="subtitle">This is a community of those who wish to discover and tilt windmills; to find opportunities for making the world a better place which may at first seem silly or insignificant, but in fact are core of the creative discovery process. It will provide compa...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/wishcraft/" title="Last updated: 33 weeks ago">Wishcraft</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 10</span><br /><span class="subtitle">A place to connect, share, and learn how to dream big again. The main idea behind Wishcraft? -- *tell someone!* Tell them what your best version of the future looks like, then let the six degrees of separation go to work. Whether you&#39;re looking to chas...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/workshops/" title="Last updated: 16 weeks ago">Workshops</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 28</span><br /><span class="subtitle">==== Much of the discussions, wiki and group contact addresses will continue at several new web sites: ==== .. contents:: Workshops Online Help / Support Groups Network ==== see http://help-support.net/ (site should be live today, links &amp; content wil...</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/worldheritage/" title="Last updated: last year">World Heritage Conservation</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 26</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Professionals and organizations involved in world heritage conservation.</span><br /></p><p><span class="title"><a href="../group/worldpeace/" title="Last updated: 41 weeks ago">World Peace</a></span> <span class="discreet">Members: 68</span><br /><span class="subtitle">Ideas for achieving world peace go here. -------- Just a bit on how this started. 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:Author:   Linda Nowakowski
:Date:     Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:35:56 PDT

Chris, you didn't transfer any collaboration records.  All you did was transfer group names of defunct groups - some of them defunct long before Omidyar ended. What's more, you copied them and lost all of the original links so you link to nothing.

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