Creating Collaborative Communities

The conference will feature top leaders, practitioners and scholars from around the world who focus on strength-based approaches for change and development. With a focus on lifting up best practices and stories of success from around the globe, this event promises to be the premier learning and collaborative opportunity for today’s leaders, managers, and development professionals in government, non-government, and business and change agents at ever level of society.

“We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing and sustaining human system change, and the future of organization development belongs to methods that affirm, compel and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.”

David Cooperrider, Professor, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

In addition to the in-person conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, an Online Conference will also encircle the globe with hundreds of individuals participating virtually.

The Online Conference will be supported through iCohere which provides an easy to use online environment where participants can collaborate, learn and co-create together. The Online Conference will offer both real-time and on-demand sessions and activities connecting participants logged in from around the globe with the events and dialogue unfolding in Nepal.

What Works!

What Works! is designed to shine a spotlight on strengths-based approaches to preschool teacher–driven change in early childhood learning environments.

Co-sponsored by a wide range of agencies and organizations dedicated to the education and welfare of California's youngest children, this online conference is underwritten in part by a grant from the Packard Foundation to the Institute for Teaching and in part by additional funding from the California Teachers Association.
What Works! Conference Overview 

Objectives:

• To highlight sustainable operations taking place across the country
• To give participants the tools and information to institute sustainable operation practices in their work and community
• To explore cutting-edge science and ideas in sustainable practices
• To model green practices with the use of new technologies

iCohere teamed with the Dairy Council of America to launch the virtual piece of the Healthy Kids Healthy Schools Initiative. This Appreciative Inquiry conference blended a face-to-face event in Houston with virtual participants around the country.

Live streaming video, interactive collaboration sessions and online facilitation expanded the scope of the event and made it available to a much wider audience. After the conference was completed, the site was transformed into a virtual space to collaborate on projects that came out of the event.

A virtual conference on the Web for audiologists and speech-language pathologists.

This year's distinguished international faculty: Velvet Buehler, Nancy Cambron, Patricia Chute, Kate Gfeller, René Gifford, Michelle Hughes, Ruth Litovsky, Mary Ellen Nevins, John Niparko, Amy McConkey Robbins, Anu Sharma, Jeffrey L. Simmons, and Linda Spencer.

iCohere Inc., headquartered in Walnut Creek CA, announced the successful conclusion of the Global Summit on Social Responsibility, an event co-created by iCohere and ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership.

Connecting fifteen US locations, five international locations, and hundreds of virtual participants with approximately 400 participants at Washington DC's Gaylord National Hotel, the Global Summit on Social Responsibility ushered in a new era of global online multi-day conferencing by leveraging the power of ideas from around the world to create innovative responses and solutions to many of the world's most pressing needs. Through iCohere's pioneering technology, all participants played an active role on every level of the Summit. read more

Association Trends Article: How to Host a Virtual Conference

Cities and towns throughout the United States are aging rapidly, with the senior population due to double in the next 25 years; yet, most communities are ill-prepared. Creating Aging-Friendly Communities, a unique online community focuses on proven strategies for helping communities respond effectively to the aging of their populations.

Creating Aging-Friendly Communities is hosted by: UC Berkeley's Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services and Community Strengths with support and consultation from iCohere, Inc.

Speakers include:

• UC Berkeley Press Release — February 12, 2008
• San Francisco Chronicle Press Release — February 21, 2008
• National League of Cities Weekly Article: Cities Work to Create Aging-Friendly Communities

2nd Phonak Virtual Audiology Conference
May 19 through May 21, 2008 The 2nd Virtual Audiology Conference offered 40 iLearn sessions in five languages in just three days. For five weeks after the real-time conference, the conference site was still available for those wishing to download the presentations in PDF format or to view the recordings of the live and prerecorded presentations. For all the English-language sessions, Phonak provided quizzes that allowed participants to retrieve Credit Points in most Audiology associations of America, Australia, Canada, England and New Zealand.

PSP-One Online Social Marketing Conference
March 10-17, 2008 The conference, Social Marketing for Health in the Developing World: What Have We Accomplished and What does the Future Hold?, attracted over 900 registrants from more than 60 countries representing social marketing organizations, non-governmental organizations, donor agencies, private foundations, academic institutions, and the commercial health sector.

Participants actively navigated the various conference sections, listened to presentations, downloaded resources, and shared expertise, opinions, and thoughts about promising new social marketing directions. The most frequently visited areas were the three panel discussions with approximately 3,000 views. Several participants also initiated their own discussion topics, drawing nearly 1,000 visits to the discussion room.

1st Virtual FM Conference
January 30 and February 6, 2008ACCESS 2 (Achieving Clear Communication Employing Sound Solutions) — Topics covered FM technology and applications of FM systems.

Global Innovation Exchange 2007
November 7 - 9, 2007 Global Innovation Exchange 2007 online event produced by InnovationPoint and iCohere focused on sharing and diffusing innovation insights, strategies and next practices from around the world.

Character Education Online Conference
March 8 through October 31, 2006iCohere sponsored Character Education: In a World of Budget Cuts and Standardized Testing, a virtual learning community and conference designed to provide participants with a comprehensive introduction to the Character Education movement.

Communities of Practice 2005
September 27 and 28, 2005Second annual Communities of Practice online conference exploring the practices of Learning Networks.

Collaborative Learning 2005
June 21 and 22, 2005 Third annual Collaborative Learning online conference exploring the effective and emergent practices in eLearning.

Virtual Teams & Collaboration 2005
March 29 - 31, 2005 This global online conference focused on best practices for virtual teams and collaboration.