Caring for this Online Community

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Comment by Jerry LaChapelle on January 18, 2012 at 9:13am

Being new to The World Cafe I'm not very familiar with hosting or suggested procedures.  I am curious about something however; has anyone ever tried using www.meetup.com to setup a cafe meeting in your local area?  I could see an up and down side to this.  Thanks!

Comment by Amy Lenzo on September 10, 2010 at 9:35am

Welcome to the "caring for this online community" group, Utis!
I'd love to hear more about you and what interests brought you to this group...

Comment by Amy Lenzo on July 10, 2010 at 2:28pm

Thanks Christopher!

Comment by Christopher Smerald on July 5, 2010 at 1:17am

Amy,
I came across TWC while exploring ideas towards facilitating world self governance, initially as a toolkit item, but more so now as space to explore ideas, learn form others’ visions and experience, and hopefully help TWC community achieve its own ends. I am still learning what goals TWC has set for itself so some of the following may be off plan for TWC, but possibly of interest. As a medium I am particularly interested in
1. the making of TWC tools and skills accessible to an as broad and non elite group as possible,
2. exploring how the World Café process might
- be supplemented by deeper thinking components or
- made accessible in a less technology intensive format for areas of the world where bandwidth is more precious (intuitively I think deeper thinking and less technology may have some synergies)
3. The harvesting, concentrating and sharing knowledge gained from collective dialog. (N.B. Amy, here is a link to the Olivier Zara collaborative intelligence article I mentioned: http://www.axiopole.com/pdf/Managing_collective_intelligence.pdf -much is of interest in the paper, but skimming pages 28 to 42 and reading chapter 5 will give a good overview}. I know some of your members are more fully engaged with this topic and can give more insight.
4. Exploring the building of modern communities that do not spontaneously dissolve but thrive and provide real benefit.
5. Skills sharing/lending towards others' ideas/aims.

Comment by Amy Lenzo on June 23, 2010 at 5:33pm

Hi all,

We've been kind of quiet here for a while... perhaps it's time to jump in and test the waters a little bit about what people would feel energized by in relation to supporting this online community...

Benjamin has brought great heart and creativity to the community ... and we need all of us contributing our ideas and our actions to keep that cycle going.

One such possibility for energizing the World Cafe community is the series of monthly Community Cafes we've launched in collaboration with the Monthly Inquiry Circle. This combination was designed to explore what topics are really meaningful for people here and then host a World Cafe to delve deeply into that topic.

It's a way to get to know each other and cross-pollinate ideas, and it offers people who are new to the World Cafe a way to experience it for themselves.

We started the Community Cafe last month, and it was brilliant. People from all across this international community picked up their phones (or used their SkypeOut accounts) to connect with each other.

The 2nd Community World Cafe is scheduled for this Sunday. Adriano Pianesi will be our host and the topic of our conversation is Immigration. How do you feel about it? How have you or your family been effected by it?

I really want to invite people from this group to show up for these Community Cafes and participate in the monthly Inquiry group. Perhaps there are subjects you'd like to explore, and you may even want to host one of the Community Cafes yourself.

We all joined this group because we are interested in caring for this community, right? Well, participating in a Community Cafe is one great way we can do that.

It would be good to hear from others here... how would you like to care for this community? What does that mean to you? Why did you join this group?

Comment by Amy Lenzo on May 9, 2010 at 8:09am

Welcome, Christopher! Thanks for joining us here...

Most of the energy for this group was generated leading up to and during our initial launch, but the ongoing care of our community (or any community like this) is still an active thread, and one of my primary interests.

I spend a lot of time thinking about this, and wonder what others are noticing - what drew you to this group? What would you like to learn? What wisdom can you share?

For me, I would begin by saying how helpful it is to have the World Cafe principles to draw on in creating the conditions for meaningful dialogue and real connection. Have you experienced any of them at work here?

Warmly,

Amy

Comment by Benjamin Aaron Degenhart on March 7, 2010 at 6:06am

yes, thank you Amy, grateful to have the possibility to grow into this role! beautiful to see current and future friends in this group :) feel superready to dive in here with passion and care... will take a while for me to fully understanding the structure, the hot threads, the gatekeepers and so on... great challenge that is :)

Comment by Amy Lenzo on March 6, 2010 at 12:35pm

Welcome, Kazuaki! It's good to see you here.

And while I'm in the welcoming mood, I want to take a moment to express my delight that Benjamin Degenhart has joined us as an active steward of this online community site (and as a member of this group). Welcome, Benjamin!

Comment by Amy Lenzo on December 17, 2009 at 11:59am

Just checking in to wish everyone a happy holiday season ...

I've seen some of your responses to the short "Community Inquiry" survey in the latest issue of TableTalk, about how to make the World Cafe communications as useful and valuable as they can be ... thank you to everyone who's contributed so far!

Anyone else who wants to make their thoughts known is very welcome to do so - click here to participate.

There is a section in the Inquiry dedicated to the World Cafe online community space, but the survey itself is very short so the part for the online community is only 2 questions (what do you find most helpful, and what would make it work even better). I wonder what we'd want to ask (or answer) if we were focusing specifically on this space...

Comment by Amy Lenzo on September 14, 2009 at 2:22pm

Hi David! Welcome to this group of people who want to help care for the well-being of this online community. (I laugh because of course you were always part of this group in spirit! :-)

The search for specific people or their coordinates like location, or interests, etc. is called "Advanced Search" and it's at the top of the page in the "People" tab. Be in touch personally if you can't find it or see how to work with it.

Hugs,

Amy

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