Dgroups webinar – Developing and supporting your Dgroup
After the first Dgroups Communities webinar held last month, this week we organized the second event in this series of three online webinars. The theme for this session was how to develop and support an online community. Facilitated by Lucie Lamoureux (KM4D Associates) the session was designed around three presentation blocks of about 12 minutes, …
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Dgroups webinar – Learning the ins and outs of the Dgroups platform
Creating a new online community can be done with just a few clicks of the mouse. But bringing a new community to life and getting its members engaged is a complete different story, and it requires care, skills and time. ECDPM and Dgroups are partnering to pilot a series of three free webinars to learn …
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Dgroups Activities Report 2014
With six new partners joining in 2014, the Dgroups Partnership counts now 22 member organizations and it is stronger at the end of 2014 than at the beginning of the year. The recently published Activities Report 2014 highlights the work areas around which the Dgroups Board focused its operation in 2014, and the results achieved. …
UNCDF, Access Agriculture join Dgroups
After the 3 organizations that joined earlier in 2014, the year 2014 closes with another good news for Dgroups. Two new organizations have just formalized their membership and have joined the Dgroups Foundation. The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s 48 least developed countries. Specifically: UNCDF provides seed capital – …
Report Dgroups Annual Partners Meeting 2014
The Dgroups Partners Annual Meeting, held online on 3 December 2014, was organized to present members the activities undertaken by the Dgroups Foundation during this year and to discuss and identify priorities for 2015 with the larger Dgroups membership. In total, 12 participants representing 9 Dgroups partners joined the virtual meeting. The agenda of the …
New Dgroups introduction presentation available for download and use
Although most of the participants in the 2014 Dgroups Annual Partners Meeting were familiar with Dgroups, this short presentation by Sarah Cummings was a useful reminder of what Dgroups is and what it stands for: [slideshare id=42334155&doc=anintroductiontodgroups-141203222828-conversion-gate01] This presentation is available in a longer version as part of the material recently developed to support Dgroups …
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Dgroups leaflet in French, Spanish and Portuguese
We are delighted to announce the availability of our new introductory leaflet in 4 languages here: English [download pdf] French [download pdf Spanish [download pdf] Portuguese [download pdf] Please feel free to download and distribute these leaflets to your networks and contacts, and to print them out for distribution at meetings and conferences. The Dgroups Partnership is …
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Testimonials: What would have happened without Dgroups?
Dgroups is home of many groups and communities and several development practitioners have successfully used the Dgroups platform to support and enable their work. With this blog – a re-post from Sarah Cummings’ original piece – we are starting to collect testimonials of how Dgroups has helped users in their work. At the moment, there …
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Three new organizations join Dgroups
We’re delighted to announce that over the past weeks three new organizations have joined the Dgroups partnership: the Tropical Health & Education Trust (THET), The Broker Online and Enda Energie. Based in London, THET is a specialist global health organisation working for over 20 years to educates, train and supports health workers through partnerships. This principle is central to …
Top Dgroups functionality requests and recent platform enhancement
Since several months now, we have revised our approach for functionality improvement. The new approach decentralises all identification and discussion of functionality improvements to the [redesign] Dgroups, which is open for anyone to join. Currently, the group counts 34 active and engaged members, including Damir Simunic for WA-Research, representatives of the Dgroups Board, Dgroup admins …
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