Comments on: How online communities can make the net work for the VCS http://www.ncvo-networks.org.uk/blogs/ictforesight/2007/03/06/how-online-communities-can-make-the-net-work-for-the-vcs/ Exploring how new technologies are changing voluntary action Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:52:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on How online communities can make the net work for the VCS by: Social Networks squeeze NGOs? at Front Porch http://www.ncvo-networks.org.uk/blogs/ictforesight/2007/03/06/how-online-communities-can-make-the-net-work-for-the-vcs/#comment-7378 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:32:46 +0000 http://www.ncvo-networks.org.uk/blogs/ictforesight/2007/03/06/how-online-communities-can-make-the-net-work-for-the-vcs/#comment-7378 [...] Further, he cites a forthcoming report from the NCVO ICT Foresight team: The connections that ICT facilitates suggest that some organisations may increasingly be bypassed and that power may shift away from top-down hierarchical organisations and towards more fluid and participative networks where there is less need for a centralised ‘bricks and mortar’ coordinating organisation. [...] […] Further, he cites a forthcoming report from the NCVO ICT Foresight team: The connections that ICT facilitates suggest that some organisations may increasingly be bypassed and that power may shift away from top-down hierarchical organisations and towards more fluid and participative networks where there is less need for a centralised ‘bricks and mortar’ coordinating organisation. […]

]]> Comment on How online communities can make the net work for the VCS by: David Wilcox http://www.ncvo-networks.org.uk/blogs/ictforesight/2007/03/06/how-online-communities-can-make-the-net-work-for-the-vcs/#comment-7363 Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:01:02 +0000 http://www.ncvo-networks.org.uk/blogs/ictforesight/2007/03/06/how-online-communities-can-make-the-net-work-for-the-vcs/#comment-7363 Thanks for the mention, Megan. I think you are spot on. I've pulled some more strands together on about nonprofits, the web, uncollaboration, social networking, and open source politics at <a href="http://www.designingforcivilsociety.org/2007/03/nonprofit_leade.html" rel="nofollow"> Nonprofit leadership means networking, socially and openly</a> Thanks for the mention, Megan. I think you are spot on. I’ve pulled some more strands together on about nonprofits, the web, uncollaboration, social networking, and open source politics at Nonprofit leadership means networking, socially and openly

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