collaborative innovation networks: Plone help

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My name is Alice-Marie Archer, and I am a working on a collaborative thesis towards a masters in 'Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability' at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. My peers (Rong Fei, Rebecca Petzel), and I are exploring how collaborative innovation networks can contribute to transformational change towards a sustainable society.

This research builds on an initial inquiry undertaken by NESTA (UK), Beyond Zero (UK) and innovation design student Ed Murfitt into the collaborative potential of the web for social innovations. We are working with this group, currently known as the collaboration ninjas, to build a living, on-going web based resource (ad-interim site: http://collaborationninja.wordpress.com/) to provide strategic and practical guidance for people interested in utilizing this potential for environmental and social innovations.

So this is a notification of the collaboration ninja project and a request for assistance in maximising the potential of the resource by making is user friendly and open: (http://collaborationninja.wordpress.com/improve-this-website/).

Please help us to make this a really useful and dynamic resource!
 We are looking for people, to help us overhaul this resource, replacing it with a CMS (Plone or Drupal or something) with a KISS (Keep-it-simple-stupid) user interface supporting a forum, space for people to interact and collaborate on content a bit (we want the whole site to be pretty open and easy to use), and a really easy way for administrators to alter the look and feel of the site.

We also want people to contribute their experiences and insights into e-collaboration, so that we can be better collaborators.

If you would like to be involved please email me: alicemarie.archer@gmail.com
Dean Powers

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Hi,

We've developed a new Zope3 based social collaboration system with  
blogs, forums, audio/video, member profiles and lots of other  
interesting features.

We'd be happy to make it available to you for your project. It would  
be a good fit for NGO's since it is free and open source.

Regards,

Dean

On Mar 2, 2009, at 1:09 PM, petitepeche wrote:

>
>
> My name is Alice-Marie Archer, and I am a working on a collaborative  
> thesis
> towards a masters in 'Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability'  
> at the
> Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. My peers (Rong Fei,  
> Rebecca
> Petzel), and I are exploring how collaborative innovation networks can
> contribute to transformational change towards a sustainable society.
>
> This research builds on an initial inquiry undertaken by NESTA (UK),  
> Beyond
> Zero (UK) and innovation design student Ed Murfitt into the  
> collaborative
> potential of the web for social innovations. We are working with  
> this group,
> currently known as the collaboration ninjas, to build a living, on-
> going web
> based resource (ad-interim site: http://collaborationninja.wordpress.com/)
> to provide strategic and practical guidance for people interested in
> utilizing this potential for environmental and social innovations.
>
> So this is a notification of the collaboration ninja project and a  
> request
> for assistance in maximising the potential of the resource by making  
> is user
> friendly and open:
> (http://collaborationninja.wordpress.com/improve-this-website/).
>
> Please help us to make this a really useful and dynamic resource! We  
> are
> looking for people, to help us overhaul this resource, replacing it  
> with a
> CMS (Plone or Drupal or something) with a KISS (Keep-it-simple-
> stupid) user
> interface supporting a forum, space for people to interact and  
> collaborate
> on content a bit (we want the whole site to be pretty open and easy  
> to use),
> and a really easy way for administrators to alter the look and feel  
> of the
> site.
>
> We also want people to contribute their experiences and insights into
> e-collaboration, so that we can be better collaborators.
>
> If you would like to be involved please email me:
> [hidden email]
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/collaborative-innovation-networks%3A-Plone-help-tp2408606p2408606.html
> Sent from the Non-profits & NGOs mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> NGO mailing list
> [hidden email]
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Nate Aune

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Hi Dean,

I would be interested in hearing more about the Zope3-based social
collaboration system that you have developed. Social networking
functionality is a common request among the NGOs with whom we work. Is
the code available in a public repository somewhere?

Also, are you familiar with the Pinax project, an open source
collection of add-ons for Django for building social networking
sites.
http://www.pinaxproject.com

thanks,
Nate

On Mar 2, 6:15 am, Dean Powers <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We've developed a new Zope3 based social collaboration system with  
> blogs, forums, audio/video, member profiles and lots of other  
> interesting features.
>
> We'd be happy to make it available to you for your project. It would  
> be a good fit for NGO's since it is free and open source.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean
>
> On Mar 2, 2009, at 1:09 PM, petitepeche wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > My name is Alice-Marie Archer, and I am a working on a collaborative  
> > thesis
> > towards a masters in 'Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability'  
> > at the
> > Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. My peers (Rong Fei,  
> > Rebecca
> > Petzel), and I are exploring how collaborative innovation networks can
> > contribute to transformational change towards a sustainable society.
>
> > This research builds on an initial inquiry undertaken by NESTA (UK),  
> > Beyond
> > Zero (UK) and innovation design student Ed Murfitt into the  
> > collaborative
> > potential of the web for social innovations. We are working with  
> > this group,
> > currently known as the collaboration ninjas, to build a living, on-
> > going web
> > based resource (ad-interim site:http://collaborationninja.wordpress.com/)
> > to provide strategic and practical guidance for people interested in
> > utilizing this potential for environmental and social innovations.
>
> > So this is a notification of the collaboration ninja project and a  
> > request
> > for assistance in maximising the potential of the resource by making  
> > is user
> > friendly and open:
> > (http://collaborationninja.wordpress.com/improve-this-website/).
>
> > Please help us to make this a really useful and dynamic resource! We  
> > are
> > looking for people, to help us overhaul this resource, replacing it  
> > with a
> > CMS (Plone or Drupal or something) with a KISS (Keep-it-simple-
> > stupid) user
> > interface supporting a forum, space for people to interact and  
> > collaborate
> > on content a bit (we want the whole site to be pretty open and easy  
> > to use),
> > and a really easy way for administrators to alter the look and feel  
> > of the
> > site.
>
> > We also want people to contribute their experiences and insights into
> > e-collaboration, so that we can be better collaborators.
>
> > If you would like to be involved please email me:
> > [hidden email]
>
> > --
> > View this message in context:http://n2.nabble.com/collaborative-innovation-networks%3A-Plone-help-...
> > Sent from the Non-profits & NGOs mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
> > _______________________________________________
> > NGO mailing list
> > [hidden email]
> >http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo
>
> _______________________________________________
> NGO mailing list
> [hidden email]://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo

_______________________________________________
NGO mailing list
[hidden email]
http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo