Project management consulting and training for social change organisations.
I registered for the 2004 Web of Change conference today — a four day retreat at the Hollyhock learning centre on Cortes Island in B.C. (September 16th to the 20th). The theme this year is "Connecting Networks and Movements" — our focus will be to explore the impact technology has had/can have on social movement networks (where the health of the networks is a determining factor in the vitality and power of the movement itself — see this paper for more).
I also had lunch with Mark Surman of the Commons Group and Phillip Smith of Community Bandwidth today, two people involved in coordinating WoC, and I may get the chance to lead a WoC workshop on the need for "lightweight" project management frameworks/methodologies for use on progressive sector/social movement network projects (and if I do, I'll post my workshop materials here).
Are conventional project management tools and techniques too "heavyweight" to be useful to social movement networks, and if so, a) how so, and b) how should the projects these networks undertake be managed instead?
Posted by Rob at 02:36 PMWell, I for one look forward to hearing your report back on what sounds like a fabulous conference...
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Any notes from your presentation to share?
Posted by: Sarah at September 22, 2004 07:16 PMHi, Sarah!
It *was* a fabulous conference — very well coordinated :)
In terms of notes from the lightweight project management workshop, the plan at this point is to set up a wiki the group can use to continue our discussion/collaboration remotely (I'm hoping Sunir can help with the set up). Once it's up and ready to go, I'll post my initial thoughts, let you and the rest of the conference participants know and we can get started/resume.
Posted by: Rob at September 23, 2004 09:14 AM
