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Permalink Reply by Amy Lenzo on September 20, 2010 at 10:36pm

How delightful that you've found your way here to join us, Angel... Welcome welcome welcome!

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Permalink Reply by juanita brown on September 21, 2010 at 5:50am

Hi Angel...
Welcome! It's wonderful to have you with us as part of this community. Please jump into those groups that trigger your interest (see the group page for all of those)....and perhaps you'd want to start a conversation yourself about the uses of World Cafe for building community!
With warmest regards,
Juanita
Co-founder of the World Cafe

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Permalink Reply by Tarit Kumar Datta Gupta on September 24, 2010 at 9:15am

24 September 2010

Hi Juanita and all

This is Tarit Datta Gupta nascent born member of The World Café Community getting myself gradually involved with sharing my ideas with The World Café Community. In fact, very recently I learnt about The World Café Community from my friend Simone Poutnik and with the simple intention of learning from the prominent development practitioners around the globe I requested and I am very much glad to be awarded with the membership from The World Café Community. My friend Benjamin has already extended his helping hand from the very beginning in introducing The World Café Community to me, and introducing me to World Café Community.

About me, from Bangladesh, South Asia and not at all known in my own country I have my first post graduation in Chemistry in 1974 from the University of Dhaka followed by my second post graduation in Development Study in 2007 from North South University. I began my professional career in 1975, continued with different disciplines and it followed like business cycle. At present, I am working as Development Specialist (Independent). My interested areas are: thematic issues, knowledge management, organizational development, governance and policy analysis, political economy and of course others. In my profession I always prefer qualitative analysis instead of completely banking on quantitative analysis; in the former I use mostly observation technique while using Appreciative Inquiry (AI) method through unstructured discussion using open-ended checklists. I believe in innovations, perhaps this is embedded covering the total area in my frame of mind for which I always look beyond what is presently happening. Presently, I am providing voluntary services participating in the online discussion organized by bytesforall readers forum on the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) on different topics related to Digital Bangladesh of the present Bangladesh Government.

However, let me come back to my couple of hours’ experiences with The World Café Community. It is interesting, amazing, and wonderful in very brief I am to say. Meanwhile I have joined seven different groups of The World Café Community. I am also very happy to see Mario Gastaldi and Natalie as my friends. I have already talked about my friend Benjamin who was very much cooperative from the very beginning. Though my friend Simone is yet to be listed in friend list but I also know that she is very busy at this point of time. I have the pleasure that today morning I have entered into conversation with Dr. Miller on Appreciative Inquiry which was useful for me to learn Miller’s perception which is very close to my understanding. Last night I have certain fruitful communications with Ulrich about 2nd European Salon – Dialogue and leadership for a new face of community (I will come to this later). But, why I am telling all these things is that my instinct from last couple of hours’ experiences tells that The World Café Community is a very conducive place for the developmental practitioners who also work as both consumers and suppliers of knowledge to the community. I am eagerly awaiting and would also be eagerly awaiting my direct participation (face to face) in the businesses of The World Café Community.

Now please allow me to let you know that the reasons I have entered into conversation and story telling, well at this moment with a request from Ulrich to talk about ‘Fusion Styles’ in organization development 2nd European Salon – Dialogue and leadership for a new face of community which I would like to discuss in this section tomorrow.

Thanking you all, and with very best of regards

Sincerely and honestly yours

tarit

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Permalink Reply by Meagan Cramer on September 28, 2010 at 9:53am

Hello! Just joined today. I've started reading World Cafe and am very intrigued with the idea. I can see so many applications, and my mind is just churning. I live in Kansas and work for an ag advocacy group. I'm active in my community and am working towards my master's degree in Alternative Dispute Resolution. Looking forward to learning more about the process as I read the book and connect.

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