Phil, Thanks for taking the lead on this. I'd like to encourage you to go a step further, or encourage a few others on this list to offer their help.
At the following link is a circle that divides into issue areas important to Boston. http://www.tbf.org/indicatorsproject/hubofinnovation/innovation.asp If you click any slice of the pie, you go to information related to that slice. If such a navigation tool were available for the Digital Divide Profiles, we could each know who was already working in the same area, or geography as we are, and who is working in different areas. This would make it much easier to network with others than scrolling through a long list of profiles to find someone who might become a valuable partner in work any of us are doing. If such a navigation tool could be created in open space, then we might each learn to add it to our own web sites, to create a navigation among the members who visit a single site, and to link visitors from one site to hundreds of other networks. Thus, when someone sends out a message, or invitation to an event, it could travel through hundreds of networks to thousands of people who might be interested in that message. Maybe this already exists. If so, the challenge is to make it available at low/no cost to the thousands of people who might want to use it. This is a form of network analysis. If any of you are doing work in this area and need an organization to apply your theory and software to, I'd be happy to work with you. I've more than 15,000 people in my network and feel these tools would be extremely valuable to our work. Thus if you're looking for ways to demonstrate network analysis concepts in a practical, on-going application, we might be great partners. I posted a version of invitation in a blog message I wrote earlier this week. Dan Bassill Tutor/Mentor Connection http://tutormentor.blogspot.com on 8/26/05 4:39 AM, Claude Almansi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Phil > > Thank you for the precious advice, Phil, and thank you for having helped > me rewrite my profile. > > a further tip re, if I may: > Phil Shapiro wrote: > (...) >> as a volunteer project, i recently collected as many of these >> profiles as i could find. you can view these at >> http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/ddnprofiles.html > > When you browse these collected profiles, you can then use the "Add as a > friend" link at the top of the page, which adds a link to that profile > under "Friends" in the right-hand column of your profile (you'll have > to log in for that). > > You can choose to make this list of "Friends" public or not by clicking > "Edit" next to your name in your profile, then on the "About me" tab, > then scrolling down to "Public Friends?" > > Phil's list of friends, for instance, is public - and impressive ;-) See > <http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro>. > > cheers > > Claude _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
