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Dadamac Definitions

Submitted by Pamela on 20 September 2014 - 8:08am
Dadamac definitions are going to help me solve a problem with words. The problem Words are "slippery" things - hard to get a firm hold on for any length of time. They have different meanings in different contexts. Some have regional variations - check out the Cornish use of the words "maid" and "lover". Meanings change over time - what about "gay", "cool" and "wicked"? By writing a dadamac definition I'm giving myself permission to make a word mean what I say it means (while recognising that other people may have other ideas). I'm not alone here Lewis Carroll's Humpty...

Dadamac Connect Update "2014-09-17"

Submitted by Pamela on 17 September 2014 - 8:42pm
Dadamac Connect believes in doing things in the public domain as much as possible. So here goes with my personal "Connections" update - in no particular order. It will be what comes to mind first (knowing that some good stuff will get left out and that I don't have time to put in live links). #dadamac Nikki and I are working on making our ideas about Dadamac Connect become real. See our tweets #dadamac for odds and ends of progress - not just for Dadamac Connect but for Dadamac Foundation (which I connect with on a deep level - it's...

Kabissa-Dadamac Collaboration

Submitted by Pamela on 15 September 2014 - 4:45pm
Kabissa and Dadamac are exploring areas of overlap and how we might collaborate in 2015. First connections with Kabissa Way back in about 2002, when I was trying to find my way on how best to continue the work of the late Peter Adetunji Oyawale , Tobias Eigen (founder of Kabissa) provided support. Kabissa enabled me to publish a newsletter telling the unfolding story of Oke-Ogun Community Development Agenda 2000 Plus (OOCD 2000+) and the Information Centre at Ago-Are . I felt we'd been given the Kabissa "seal of approval" and I was greatly encouraged. Learning support online I remember...

Dadamac Connect - first announcement

Submitted by Pamela on 25 August 2014 - 4:03pm
This first announcement about Dadamac Connect is aimed at people who are already in contact with Nikki Fishman and/or me (Pamela McLean) in some way. Others are welcome to read this of course, but it will make more sense to people who know us. A new enterprise Nikki and I are setting up a new enterprise called Dadamac Connect. As individuals, inside and outside of Dadamac, we have a track record of "connecting the dots" in various ways. For years, in a comparatively informal way, we've been: Bringing together new combinations of ideas, individuals and organisations. Introducing people and helping...

Organisational issues of 21st-century systems and #RSA

Submitted by Pamela on 11 August 2014 - 7:35pm
This was first published (August 27, 2010) as an open letter on posterous. I'm reposting a (slighly shortened) version here as posterous no longer exists and I need to refer to it. Hi Kellie. (snip) A year or two back, I was involved in a workshop relevant to your interest in 21st century organisations. It was organised by a group connected to the RSA, and the day involved exploring issues related to the formal, long-established, RSA and a complementary informal network. It was definitely not a typical talking shop. I think it would have appealed to you. We were divided...

In appreciation of "The Evolution of Trust"

Submitted by Pamela on 10 August 2014 - 10:06pm
"The Evolution of Trust" by David Brooks is a helpful and clear explanation of how things are changing regarding trust. He writes I’m one of those people who thought Airbnb would never work. I thought people would never rent out space in their homes to near strangers. But I was clearly wrong. Eleven million travelers have stayed in Airbnb destinations, according to data shared by the company. (snip). And Airbnb is only a piece of the peer-to-peer economy. People are renting out their cars to people they don’t know, dropping off their pets with people they don’t know, renting power...

Open letter to Matthew Partovi #ResponsiveOrg

Submitted by Pamela on 9 July 2014 - 9:24pm
The Responsive Organization is a movement of people who want to help their organizations become more responsive to a world that is very different to that of the Industrial Age. Together, we can support and influence each other to make this change happen faster. Hi Matthew As you know I appreciated attending the #ResponsiveOrg - London unconference (and I appreciated your encouragement to attend in the first place because I don't belong in a 'normal organisation' so I wasn't confident that I should be there). This post is rather long for an email (or even for a blog) so I've...

After AD3 with AFFORD

Submitted by Pamela on 8 July 2014 - 8:24pm
I was at AFFORD's Annual event AD3 (Africa Diaspora and Development Day) which took the theme "Africa's Population Growth and Youth Unemployment" (AFFORD is the African Foundation for Development). During a conversation afterwards I was asked for more information about Dadamac and our related interests, which I share below: Dadamac connects people to each other and helps them to communicate and collaborate. It started with some friendships. Thanks to the Internet it's possible for friendships, and practical collaborations, to be sustained at a distance. Dadamac emerged through a combination of UK-Africa connections - personal connections and Internet-enabled ones. My personal...

Examples of online collaboration for Dave Pollard

Submitted by Pamela on 6 July 2014 - 10:11pm
On the Deep Time Walk we learned some impressive lessons about fungi and co-operative relationships going on under the ground. Fellow "Deep Time Walker" Dave Pollard tells me we were learning about mycorrhizae and mycelia. (More about the Deep Time Walk in Returning from Schumacher College and Dark Mountain) Online collaborative experiences As part of our ongoing email conversation Dave has asked me to write up one or two of my best online collaborative experiences. It's hard to choose because all of my involvement with people and projects in Africa has had a strong online element. How else could I...

Dave Pollard - Through the Dark Mountain: A Harvest of Myths

Submitted by Pamela on 3 July 2014 - 1:51pm
Dave Pollard, like me, was at Dark Mountain last week. He's written about it - Through the Dark Mountain: A Harvest of Myths": I spent last week at a Dark Mountain retreat at Schumacher College in Dartington just outside Totnes, UK..... (we) explored our shared worldview of the coming collapse of civilization, the myths of our culture and the possibility of creating new stories that might be of better service to us in the challenging decades ahead..... A myth is a story that many people believe to be true. It may or may not be true. The danger with myths...

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