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| "I was surprised at how much enthusiasm
was generated by the participants in this on-line format, and impressed at both
the tools and techniques used to bring us into a community quickly and easily." |
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Barbara Densmore,
President, Working Smarter SP Ltd. |
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| "The iCohere Collaborative Learning conference
changed the way I think about conferences. It was easy, engaging and best of all,
collaborative!" |
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Greg Davis,
Director, eEngagement
American Express |
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Daniel F. Bassill, President, Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor
Connection
Daniel Bassill has spent nearly 30 years, mostly as a volunteer, reaching out
to children and youth living in Chicago¹s Cabrini-Green neighborhood, leading
an after school tutor/mentor program where adult volunteers could serve as a bridge
from poverty to careers for these children. More than 3,500 volunteers and 3,300
children have participated in programs he has led, some volunteers for more than
10 consecutive years and some students from first grade through high school. With
six other volunteers, Mr. Bassill formed a non-profit in 1992 to share what he
had learned, and what others have learned, to help hundreds of other groups throughout
Chicago connect with kids in other neighborhoods. That organization is Cabrini
Connections.
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Jayne Cravens, Online Volunteering Specialist,
United Nations Volunteers program
Jayne Cravens is the Online Volunteering Specialist at the United Nations Volunteers
program [www.unvolunteers.org] in Bonn, Germany. UNV manages the NetAid
Online Volunteering service [www.netaid.org/ov], which allows individuals
to volunteer online to support organizations working in and for developing countries.
She also manages the online volunteering components of the United
Nations Information Technology Service [www.unites.org], an initiative
to promote and support volunteerism to help bridge the Digital Divide in developing
countries.
From 1996 through 2000, Jayne directed the Virtual Volunteering
Project [www.serviceleader.org/vv], which helped pioneer the concept of
involving volunteers via the Internet, as well as documenting online mentoring
program resources and suggested practices. Her own internationally-recognized
web site, Coyote Communications [www.coyotecommunications.com]
provides information on how mission-based organizations can benefit from computer
and Internet technology.
She is an advisory board member to the Knowbility.org and its Accessibility Internet
Rallies (AIR), which raise awareness about accessibility issues and the value
of mission-based organizations to communities. Recently, she taught a component
of the Volunteer Program Planning and Evaluation
online course for the University of North Texas. She is the author of published
papers on how organizations can involve and support volunteers using Instant Messaging,
how volunteers in the field can use PDAs to support their work, and why volunteers
are essential to Information Communications Technology For Development (ICT4D)
efforts.
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Christopher B. Johnson, Director
Network Finances and Administration
Chris started with CLEARCorps as the Program Director for the CLEARCorps/Portland
program in 1997 and moved to the national office in April of 1999. He telecommutes
to his Baltimore job from his home in Portland Oregon and has done so since joining
the CLEARCorps/USA staff. Prior to joining CLEARCorps/USA, he worked for the Multnomah
County (Oregon) Health Department for 11 years first as a health educator, then
as director of Oregon’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, and
finally as the manager of the County’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention
programs. Earlier experiences included five years as an associate pastor or a
church and two and a half years as the Director of Campus Ministry at the University
of Portland.
Chris has a BA in Secondary Education from Purdue University, a Master of Theology
degree from the University of Notre Dame, and a Master of Arts degree in counseling
from the University of Portland. Thanks to his experience as a telecommuter, he
has a keen interest in the role that computer technology plays working in and
managing a multi-site organization. |
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Soren Kaplan, Co-Founder, iCohere
Soren Kaplan is a co-founder of iCohere, a software and consulting organization
focused on building collaborative online communities for distributed teams, groups
and organizations. Along with the former Dean at John F. Kennedy University, Soren
started iCohere to enable people to engage together, online, in more human and
purposeful ways. Soren conceived of and produced the Wired.Org
conference series as a way to demonstrate, by example, the theory and practice
of building online learning communities.
Prior to co-founding iCohere, Soren held numerous positions at Hewlett-Packard
Company where he led an internal consulting group that assisted groups across
the company with strategic planning and organizational development. Before joining
HP, Soren was a consultant with Cambridge, MA based IdeaScope Associates where
he helped cross-functional teams collaborate to achieve new product and service
innovations. Soren holds Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Organizational Behavior
and has presented at institutions and universities, including the Creative Education
Foundation and the Harvard Business School, and has published a number of articles.
His most recent article, Building Communities – Strategies for Collaborative
Learning, appeared in the American Society of Training and Development’s
online journal, Learning Circuits. |
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Jared Polis, Founder, Jared Polis
Foundation Vice Chair, Colorado State Board of Education
Jared Polis started and provided funding for the Jared Polis Foundation. Jared
Polis 27, graduated from Princeton University in 1996 with a degree in political
science and was elected to the at-large position on the Colorado State Board of
Education in 2000. He feels strongly about the need to improve the quality of
Colorado schools and was instrumental in supporting Colorado's Amendment 23. During
his tenure, Jared has focused on recruiting and retaining quality teachers, improving
technology in education, and working more closely with local school districts.
During Jared's 2000 campaign, he recognized the need to promote technology education
and integration in Colorado schools. To this end, Jared founded the Jared Polis
Foundation to encourage Colorado citizens to become proactive in their educational
and technology communities. He is proud of the success of the three major programs
that the Jared Polis Foundation operates: Technology for
All - Colorado, the Education Station, and the Jared
Polis Education Report.
Jared was been named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2000. He has
founded and run several high-tech start-ups including Bluemountain.com
and Proflowers.com. From 1996 to 1999, he served
as CEO of Bluemountain.com, the most popular electronic greeting card site on
the Internet, and led its business development team until the company sold to
Excite@Home in fall of 1999.
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Joni Podolsky
Joni Podolsky is an author, consultant, project manager, and trainer specializing
in helping nonprofits strategically implement technology, as well as building
community relationships and outreach, especially between the private and public
sectors. Most recently, Joni was the founding program director of Wired
for Good, a program of the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits (CEN) in
San Jose, CA. There, she leveraged the community expertise and resources necessary
to help Silicon Valley nonprofits develop and implement strategic technology plans.
Prior to CEN, Joni was a project director for Smart Valley, Inc., assisting school
districts in the planning for and implementation of technology in the classroom
and district offices. Joni is author of the book Wired
for Good: Strategic Technology Planning for Nonprofits (Jossey-Bass, 2003)
and the Smart Valley guide, District Administrator’s Guide to Planning for
Technology. She speaks on the issues of technology planning for nonprofits at
conferences and workshops nationwide and in various industry and nonprofit publications.
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Dr. James R. Price III, Director, CLEARCorps/USA
Dr. James R. Price received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He held
faculty positions at Georgia State University and The Catholic University of America
before joining The Shriver Center at UMBC in 1994 to pursue his professional interests
in values and social change. In 1995, he helped to develop The CLEARCorps Program,
and has served as its Director ever since.
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Eva Rosenberg, President, TaxAnxiety, Inc.
Affectionately known as TaxMama to her clients and her Internet audience. Our
TaxMama has over 3 decades of tax and business experience, across a surprising
spectrum of industries. Combining formal training at national CPA firms with her
warm, homey style, she does her best to protect her brood from the ravages of
the U.S. Income Tax system. Her office in Southern California works specializes
in small businesses, non-filers trying to get back into the system and Internet-based
businesses across the globe. |
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Janet Salmons, President, Vision2Lead, Inc.
Janet is on the faculty of the Capella University School of Business, where she
develops and teaches courses in E-Business, leadership, management, and topics
such as management of virtual teams, organizations and communities. Janet practices
what she teaches through Vision2Lead, Inc., where her company consults in organizational
and leadership development online and off for nonprofit and private sector organizations.
Janet’s eclectic background includes extensive work with and for nonprofit
organizations. She offered leadership development and management coaching as Director
for Training and Affiliate Services for MAGIC Me, an organization that offered
intergenerational programs for at-risk youth and nursing home-bound elders. During
her tenure, MAGIC Me linked colleges, businesses, schools and senior service agencies
through thirty affiliates nationwide, and was part of the inagural group of national
AmeriCorps programs. Janet also served as Executive Director for an intergenerational
program in Denver, Colorado, called Rainbow Bridge.
Janet founded and directed two programs based at Cornell University: Cornell Theatre
Outreach and the Community Based Arts Program. These programs offered local, regional
and national projects that used drama, storytelling and simulations to address
issues of race, class, gender in the workplace, academic and community settings.
The Xerox Managing Diversity program for senior management, Cornell University
Results-Oriented Supervision series, NYS Child Protective Services Institute as
well as local schools and community centers were a few of the participating organizations.
As a volunteer, Janet organized an interfaith Affordable Housing Campaign in Denver,
Colorado; serves on the editorial board of the Kennedy Center electronic publication
for professional artists with disabilities, Opening Stages; and was a founding
board member for Eye-Level, a Colorado publication on regional visual arts. |
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Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky, Founders
and Research Directors, Sohodojo
Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky are practicing small business futurists and founders
of Sohodojo, a 501(C)(3), independent, applied research and development laboratory
supporting solo and family-based entrepreneurs in rural and distressed urban communities.
Sohodojo serves its constituents through the development of business models and
associated Open Source software technologies consistent with Small is Good organizing
principles. Sohodojo's most elementary constituency is the nanocorp, that is,
the solo entrepreneurial free agent or entrepreneurial "working family."
As JFS Consulting, their Portfolio Life nanocorp, Jim and Timlynn oversee a 'corporate
conglomerate of us' with a diversified portfolio of dynamic projects and dejobbed
small businesses that includes Sohodojo, The Village Chandler Guild (a microenterprise
network of soybean wax candlemakers), 3RBuilders.Net, Squirrelfeeders.com, and
The Pop Culture Store and Virtual Museum. Timlynn and Jim have recently strengthened
Sohodojo's commitment to field research and social action by accepting appointments
as Director and Entrepreneur/Futurist In Residence of the North American Rural
Futures Institute (NARFI) at Montana State University - Northern.
Jim and Timlynn's business/life goal is to envision and develop Small is Good
Business Webs (AKA microenterprise networks) throughout rural and distressed urban
communities interested in unleashing the 'other side of capitalism'. |
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Susan Tenby, Online Community Manager, TechSoup.org
Susan Tenby is the Online Community Manager of TechSoup.org, the technology web
site for nonprofits. A project of CompuMentor (www.compumentor.org),
TechSoup is a comprehensive web based resource covering all aspects of nonprofit
technology and channeling over $50M yearly of technology product philanthropy
into the nonprofit sector.
Susan manages the message boards, also known as the TechSoup
Community. She also edits and contributes to The TechSoup newsletter, TechSoup...By
the Cup. Prior to her current position, Susan provided content development and
Web research for the launch of TechSoup. She brings research experience to CompuMentor
from her background in library work, and writing experience from her graduate
studies in Literary Theory. Susan is an active participant in many virtual communities,
including: Howard Rheingold's Brainstorms , San Francisco Women on the Web, The
Young Nonprofit Network, and the Nonprofit mailing list. She was recently profiled
in the Young Nonprofit Network's online publication, Sounding Board, and consults
and participates in online events and conferences about building and sustaining
Virtual Communities. Susan has lived in San Francisco for thirteen years, practices
Astanga Yoga and occasionally dreams of joining the Cirque du Soleil. |
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Bill Tucker, Chief Knowledge Officer, Isoph
Bill Tucker is Chief Knowledge Officer at Isoph, which provides online education,
training, collaboration, and conference services for organizations such as Planned
Parenthood, the National Wildlife Federation, the Leader to Leader Institute,
and many others. Recognized as one of the leading experts on the use of online
learning in the nonprofit sector, Bill helps clients develop strategies that incorporate
both sound learning design and sustainable business planning. His areas of expertise
include program planning and design, partnership facilitation, marketing and dissemination,
curriculum development, and sustainability planning. A frequent speaker and contributor
to nonprofit publications, Bill is co-author of Making
E-learning Work in the Nonprofit Sector, published by brandon-hall.com.
As Director of Training and Publications at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, Bill
led nonprofit management and technology training programs for over 6,000 staff
annually. Bill served as a VISTA volunteer, director of one of North Carolina's
largest youth service programs, and leader of a national award-winning community
development project featured on the cover of USA Weekend Magazine. He founded
the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network, an Internet-based nonprofit community.
Bill holds a Master's in business from the Stanford Graduate School of Business,
a Master's in education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and a
joint undergraduate degree in public policy studies and political science from
Duke University.
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