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Further Questions for Dadamac

Submitted by vijay on 18 September 2009 - 2:13pm

This is my reply to Pam's last letter . Hi Pam, Thanks for your reply. I am able to access the site now more easily, although I got an OOPs! page twice when I clicked on the Dadamac url. Thanks, your answers gave me a good idea of how the site will evolve over a period of time. I liked the concept of a reception area, which will link up to various ‘back offices’ of the site. You rightly said that Dadamac will be driven by the interests and energy of the community. Without beating about the bush, I will...

Welcome to your new role

Submitted by Pamela on 2 September 2009 - 10:33am

This is my Reply to Vijay's last letter Hi Vijay I am excited about our open-letter, learn-by-doing, project. Thank you for agreeing to give it a go - and welcome to your new role in the Dadamac Community. Maybe, like you, I should start by giving my impression of our initial exchange of emails. I was glad to hear from you. You have skills that we really need here. You are a professional communicator - and interested in effective use of websites and such like. I am an information bottle-neck trying to make Dadamac visible and understandable through this website...

Open Letter - Vijay and Pam

Submitted by vijay on 1 September 2009 - 10:30pm

This is the start of a Dadamac Learners LearnByDoing project which Vijay and Pam are going to do by writing open letters ~~~~~~ Hi Pam, It's been only three days since I got in touch with you (courtesy www.km4dev.org ) and have already exchanged more than three long mails with you, and become a member of the Dadamac community. I am a journalist and communications professional based in Delhi. I have worked for top-of-the-line Indian publications (such as India Today and BusinessWorld); researched and covered news /features for television; implemented communication strategies for an international environmental NGO (the World Wide...

Dadamac Foundation and Dadamac Limited - the Connection

Submitted by dadamac on 11 August 2009 - 8:38pm

We have been asked to explain the relationship between Dadamac Foundation and Dadamac Limited. It is causing some confusion for people who think it must be like the relationship between, for instance, Ford and the Ford Foundation or Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (i.e step one: become a great commercial success; step two: share the resulting financial wealth through philanthropy). Dadamac is very different. We didn't start on the commercial side and then create the foundation. We started with our voluntary work and are now at the start of building our commercial operation (Dadamac Limited). We don't...

First Thursdays

Submitted by dadamac on 4 August 2009 - 11:18pm

Thanks to Andrius Kulikauskas and Minciu Sodas, Pamela McLean is usually “at home” (on the Internet) once a month, logged in for an hour, and wondering if any of her contacts will arrive for a catch-up chat (or to discuss some topic that has been agreed before-hand). The chats are held in the Minciu Sodas Worknets chatroom .This means that anyone with an Internet connection can join in – no need to log-in with some special ID, and no need to download any extra software as might be needed for Yahoo or Skype. Meeting times Meetings are held on the...

Celebrations and Gifts

Submitted by dadamac on 17 July 2009 - 1:45am

If the idea of "celebration" ranges from formal events to spontaneous clapping of hands in response to good news, then the recurring themes in Dadamac UK-Nigeria discussions this week have been celebrations and gifts. Cameras for Communication Spontaneous hand clapping in the UK office greeted the news that the first official Cameras For Communication (C4C) course is underway. The course materials have already been tried out by the course leaders, but this week is the first time they have presented the course to students. They have two goups of students, each group scheduled for three sessions lasting two hours each...

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