The Lausanne Global Conversation is on the World Wide Open Network
Autor: Dave Hackett
Fecha: 14.04.2010
Category: Asociación
Almost a year ago, a Dutch blogger (Joitske Hulsebosch) used a phrase in his blog that has stuck with me, and has proved to be quite useful. He wrote that the bigger challenge in a network or partnership is always to create a "culture of exchange" (See the blog at http://snipr.com/i2ziq)
His example was that some groups’ efforts to collaborate get hung up on selecting the right tool to use for their online interaction, as if that makes all the difference.
During a teleconference he suddenly became very "struck by the complete unimportance of selecting the right tool for online interaction. What’s really important is creating a culture of exchange."
In practice, some groups choose lousy, not-quite-right tools -- but that work for them anyway, because they are so intent on collaborating and exchanging ideas. The eagerness to collaborate triumphs over the poor environment.
Other groups use the best and fanciest of tools, but because they haven’t gotten to a place where they want to make "exchange" a regular occurrence in the network or partnership, they fail.
Hulsebosch’s conclusion: When the culture of working together online is very strong, the tool doesn’t really matter.
What has been your experience where a "culture of exchange" has been successfully nurtured? What made the difference? (And don’t say it’s because of the tool!)
Palabras clave: Culture of Exchange, partnership, networking, partnership development, network challenges, Hackett, Dave Hackett, visionSynergy
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Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
My experience is that the tool has very little to do with success. Communication and "exchange" is such a challenge that it takes partners with an intense desire to connect for the exchange to be significant.
Partnership key to intentional ministry but so often it is not seen as important to the daily function of our organizations so we do not invest the serious communication time to make it work.
20.04.2010
Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
That’s a really useful phrase-- thanks for highlighting that for us. In my experience, the ’culture of exchange’ happens more within working groups and more tightly focused teams-- whet her they are inter-agency teams or not. A network can sometimes be too nebulous in its focus. One place I’ve seen it work on a network level is in non-monetary resource facilitation-- everyone is encouraged to bring their resources (generally literature and books, training materials, etc) to the table so that people know what is available and can use it in their own spheres. What have you seen, and how have you seen it nurtured?
15.04.2010
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