This is an archive of the Dadamac.net website, as it was in 2015, it is no longer being updated.

Pamela's Blog

Dadamac has moved - see Dadamac Foundation and Dadamac Connect

Submitted by Pamela on 31 July 2015 - 5:48pm
2014 was a time of reflection in Dadamac and now you can see the results. The main thing you'll notice is an end to blogging here at www.dadamac.net and two new websites instead. The new home for updates from Africa. If you're looking for updates about John Dada's work at Fantsuam Foundation, or anything else about Dadamac's UK-Africa connections then go straight to Dadamac Foundation - www.dadamac.org We are extending the UK-Africa work and bringing it all under the umbrella of our registered charity Dadamac Foundation. Since 2009 one of the main features of this "old" Dadamac.net site has been...

Dadamac Holacracy Lite - February 2015 update

Submitted by Pamela on 27 February 2015 - 8:36pm
I'm a fan of Holacracy and want to find a way to implement it in Dadamac as we grow. My introduction came through a Hub Westminster breakfast session, then I went on a one-day training course and loved the approach. Since then I've Kept in contact with some of the people I met at the training day. Been learning more in an informal way. Enthused about it within Dadamac. Investigated the ideas through some online peer-to-peer learning with a fellow enthusiast. Wondered if we might do a simpler version (see Dadamac Holacracy Lite ). But I haven't been in a...

First Thursday Meeting Updates

Submitted by Pamela on 2 February 2015 - 10:38am
The First Thursday Group has now moved to the Kabissa Forum in the category dadamac We are experimenting with the format. One of the problems with the one-hour meetings we used to do was finding a time that suited eveyone's time-zone, especially when the group included people from the USA, instead of just Europe and Africa. The information above is a 2015 update, the information below was how it used to be. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ First Thursday meetings On the First Thursday of each month I try to be online for an hour. It's a chance for friends and contacts, old and...

Reflections on #dadamac 2015 Jan 10th-16th

Submitted by Pamela on 17 January 2015 - 8:30am
As I woke up today (January 17th) I realised that it was exactly one week since our event "Africa-UK Connections in Practice - New Approaches for 2015" so I began this blog. Thinking back at all that has happened I recalled that exactly this time last week (nearly 8.30 am) John Dada and I (the "Dada" and "mac" of Dadamac) were on our way to Hub Westminster. I pressed save. Then I went away to think about it.... Preparations and expectations On Friday 9th January. Nikki Fishman, Steve Podmore and I met John Dada to welcome him to London and...

#dadamac connect - 13 Jan 2015

Submitted by Pamela on 13 January 2015 - 11:56pm
A day in my life in Dadamac Connect .... (times to nearest 1/4 hour) 8.15 - Dadamac UK-Nigeria meeting 10.30 - Debrief and planning with Nikki 1.30 - Apologetic email to organiser of Royal Africa Society event (2-4pm) 2.00 - Left home 3.00 - Arrived RAS Event - glad I made it 5.30 Arrived HubW 5.45 HubW DIY kitchen -met (new contact) who told me about Meetup for wordpress users - I need to register 6.15 Andrius Kulikauskas on Skype asking how January 10th went 6.45 Now and again Chris Santano showed me a bit of the video he took...

2015: Happy Connected New Year (and Africa-UK Connections in Practice)

Submitted by Pamela on 4 January 2015 - 11:13pm
Here's wishing everyone a Happy Connected New Year and inviting you to share it with us. Dadamac is leaping into 2015 with an event at Westminster Hub called "Africa-UK Connections in Practice" on January 10th. Afterwards we'll use the the Kabissa forum to act on whatever comes out of the January 10th event. To join us in London book here To join the Kabissa forum - and get a better idea of what the event is all about see - Kabissa: Africa-UK Connections in Practice - New Approaches for 2015 The forum is open to anyone who's interested. You don't...

Dadamac Connect - its connections and launch

Submitted by Pamela on 6 December 2014 - 4:24pm
Dadamac Connect connects people, organisations and ideas. It was co-founded by Nicola (Nikki) Fishman and me (Pamela McLean) on September 1st 2014. It has the same DNA as our earlier Dadamac work (visible in part through www.dadamac.net ) but Dadamac Connect is more clearly defined. It connects many initiatives Nichola and I have been involved in previously, together and separately. Some are visible at www.dadamac.net some happened elsewhere. I've always described Dadamac.net as a work-space rather than a website, because it reflects something that is too emergent, experimental and "shape shifting" to be a captured in a tidy website. That's...

RSA UK-Africa Network and Dadamac

Submitted by Pamela on 4 December 2014 - 10:57am
On November the new RSA UK-Africa Network was announced in the RSA London Region Newsletter along with an invitation to register for "Africa-UK Connections in Practice - New Approaches for 2015" on Saturday January 10th at Westminster Hub This blog explains the connection between the two. I'm the founder of the RSA UK-Africa Network. My connection with Africa has always been as a communication link. Think of me as a kind of unofficial UK office, and Internet connection, helping some impressive African friends who are doing innovative work in their local communities. I got involved almost by accident (to help...

Why Dadamac knows where it's going - but can't say where it begins or ends.

Submitted by Pamela on 16 November 2014 - 11:28am
Dadamac knows where it's going, but it's hard to say where it begins and ends (which is why the idea of tidying up the organisation in future with Holacracy is so appealing - see Dadamac Holacracy Lite ). To make sense of Dadamac it's simplest to start in the middle, which is easy to find, because I'm at the middle of Dadamac. Dadamac exists because of the Internet I'm Pamela McLean. I'm the "mac" of Dadamac, and I live in London. My central role in Dadamac came about not because I live in London, but because I have 24/7 access...

Learning, doing and dancing in Dadamac

Submitted by Pamela on 15 November 2014 - 1:38pm
I love dancing. I also love learning new things - but only if I'm interested, and I like to learn in my own way. Maybe it's because I'm curious and I'm a confident self-direct learner, or maybe it's that I'm too lazy, or contrary, to learn stuff that someone else has decided I need to learn. Whatever the reason I find myself in Dadamac continually jumping between "doing stuff" and "needing to learn how", and I have come to see my learning as a dance. In this Dadamac learning-by-doing dance my life skips between: Having to do something. Getting a...

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