Re: [DDN] in search of volunteer moderators (was The future of DDN)

2009-01-13 Thread Cindy Lemcke-Hoong
Why not just have ddn activities in multiple places? There's no reason why this has to be an either-or discussion. In an ideal world, DDN would be via email, on Moodle, have a wiki, be on Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, YouTube, etc...In an ideal world, there would be money available to hire a full

Re: [DDN] why not googlegroups - Re: The future of DDN

2009-01-13 Thread Don Cameron
Claude Almansi wrote: Yes, the e-mail list is stifled. But isn't it because people hesitate to post to it because they don't know when the post will get through? Yes - and another silent witness here :-) I tend not to contribute to DDN for the above reason, however still follow discussions

Re: [DDN] in search of volunteer moderators (was The future of DDN)

2009-01-13 Thread Fouad Bajwa
Hi, I have been moderating lists at various policy community and development forums. I would like to volunteer. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Andy Carvin andycar...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Tom, The problem is that there isn't an official moderator at the moment. Technically I'm not supposed

Re: [DDN] in search of volunteer moderators (was The future of DDN)

2009-01-13 Thread Andy Swarbrick
As an owner-mod of around 30 groups on Yahoo and Google Groups I would be happy to reapply that experience to support DDN, if that is at all helpful. One question seems to be what platform one might use for DDN. Before you get to that one must ask, what is wrong (and right) with the existing

Re: [DDN] in search of volunteer moderators (was The future of DDN)

2009-01-13 Thread Molly E. Uzoh
Hi Andy, Happy New Year! I'm volunteering to be one of the moderators. Thanks for all your sustained effort all these years. Mary (Molly) Uzoh, CEO Learning Right Technologies, LLC P. O. Box 51616 San Jose, CA 95151 Phone: 408-649-5872, Cell: 408-826-2167 http://www.learningright.com

[DDN] Global Health and Innovation Summit - Conference Registration

2009-01-13 Thread Jennifer Staple
Register Online Today. Registration rate increases monthly. Please forward widely. Global Health and Innovation Summit A Conference Presented Annually by Unite For Sight http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference Saturday, April 18 - Sunday, April 19, 2009 Yale University, New Haven,

[DDN] January 26 Workshop at the University of Chicago: Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement

2009-01-13 Thread Alice Furumoto-Dawson
Announcement (esp. for members in the Chicago metro area) - provocative presentation at workshop session related to the Digital Divide and education: At the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, Workshop/Working Group on

[DDN] January 18th Deadline for Citizen Media Outreach Grants

2009-01-13 Thread Janet Feldman
http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/12/23/rising-voices-seeks-micro-grant-proposals-for-citizen-media-outreach Application Deadline: January 18, 2009 Rising Voices (http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org), the outreach arm of Global Voices (http://globalvoicesonline.org), is now

[DDN] Fwd: CALL FOR PAPERS: IDIA2009 Development Informatics Conference 28-30 October 2009 Kruger National Park, South Africa

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Plantinga
CALL FOR PAPERS IDIA2009 Conference 28-30 October 2009 Digitally Empowering Communities: Learning from Development Informatics Practice www.developmentinformatics.org/conferences/2009/3rd.html Call for papers The 3rd International