Be my shadow at Dadamac - and be pro-active too. May 18, 2012
Join me
I would love some help. I need someone to join me sometimes in Dadamac - http://www.dadamac.net/home as my (pro-active) shadow. Times would flexible, arranged to suit us both. It needn't be too onerous. I could have one person who helped me often, or the shadowing role could be shared between severel people. This team of shadows (only one with me at a time) would spend time with me, so they'd learn what Dadamac does, help me with stuff when they could, create their own niche roles within Dadamac, and take photos, tweet, write blogs and so on when interesting things did happen.
Mutually beneficial
It seems to me that my shadows and I could have a mutually value-adding arrangement. My shadows would learn about the things I know about, get to meet people in my network, demonstrate existing skills and very possibly develop some new ones. Shadowing me could be a useful addition to their CVs - and could be arranged to fit around other commitments (studying, part-time work, family commitments etc). As for me, I'd get some stuff done, and recorded, that otherwise wouldn't get done.
Location and skills
Ideal shadows will be in easy distance of SE London zone 4. They will have various skills and interests relevant to Dadamac's work (the projects that our collaborators do, and the inter-personal and digital technology skills of various kinds that we need to support and extend our collaborations). I'd try to pay reasonable travel expenses etc but I couldn't pay any money as yet for work done.
Yesterday would have been a good day for a shadow - some days by contrast are just me "on my own" at my laptop .
Collage team meeting
We started off with a Collage team meeting (weekly, on skpe, typed only). Collage is a Dadamac spin off - a social business. We're a fairly new team so.. hmm.. I guess a "trusted shadow" (known to everyone) would have been included in the meeting, but a "newby shadow" (a stranger to the team) would have upset the dynamics. I guess a "newby shadow" would have been told it was happening but left to get on with his/her own stuff while it was in progress, and given an appropriate quick update afterwards to write up as a blog (as Nikki does for Dadamac's UK-Nigeria meetings) or to post to facebook.
- Nikki's blog http://www.dadamac.net/blog/nikki
Andy and the websites
Andy Broomfield usually comes round for a few hours on Thursday to guide and develop our web-presence. In addition to "the usual stuff" (which is an interesting ongoing saga in its own right) he taught us about the EU Cookie law which becomes law in this country on 26 May and we explored issues of compliance for our sites.
- Andy Broomfield http://www.dadamac.net/network/andy-broomfield
GKPF session live at WSIS Geneva
At 1.44 Franz Nahrada unexpectedly skyped me - Join us live at WSIS Geneva NOW - SIS Forum 2012 / GKPF session -Adobe connect Room III http://itu.events.refineddata.com/wsisforumroomiii
I clicked the link and joined the session which covered Omar Dengo - and then Franz' project -
That would have been an interesting bonus for my shadow! - not only for the content but also for learning more about people in my network - Franz himself of course - and also a couple of contacts among the online participants. Michael Maranda was there and Benjamin Akinmoyeje who reminded me that we had met previously - at ICTD2010 (we are now in contact again by email).
Franz Nahrada http://www.dadamac.net/network/franz-nahrada
Michael Maranda http://www.dadamac.net/network/michael-maranda
First Thursday plus
It wasn't a first Thursday of the month (the usual date for me to meet friends on an etherpad),. However on the First Thursday in May a few of us had agreed to keep the time slot open for other Thursdays this month as well, so I linked up with two of my contacts from USA. Charley Quinton via the etherpad and Mark Roest on Skype. David Pinto, up in Dundee also caught me on Skype.
- First Thursdays, an explanation http://www.dadamac.net/projects/cross-cultural-collaboration/first-thursdays
- First Thursday meeting in May http://etherpad.openstewardship.net/May-2012-First-Thursday (the conversation that lead to us wanting to continue)
- Charley Quinton http://www.dadamac.net/network/charley-quinton
- Mark Roest http://www.dadamac.net/network/mark-roest
- David Pinto http://www.dadamac.net/network/david-pinto currently working on eco^2 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/12hES9Wj5gRMICCf4AplfhZ_KsjUEZ37oO6wPW3L1A58/edit
Dadamac Meetups
It was the third Thursday of the month so it was Dadamac meetup in the evening - an excellent time with four of us in deep discussion with Neil Bachelor about his work and its relevance to our own interests. http://www.meetup.com/Dadamac/events/60680632/
Friday
Today has been another full day which is why I'm so late posting this - and don't have time to add those details. I really do need some (pro-active) shadows.
Potential shadows - please contact me
Please share this with others and contact me if you are interested.