Saturday, April 26, 2008

Building an online community

We have a great opportunity to learn from each other and gain perspectives informed by a variety of professions and practice experiences. We all expressed gratitude for the experience and the knowledge, but also expressed hunger for deeper understanding and the opportunity to explore topics in greater depth.

One way we can continue the connections made in Chicago and find ways to share knowledge and experience is through participation in an online community with its nexus in this blog. It has been designed to allow us to share resources through web links and through lists of books. The blog has a random newsfeed and video feed based on the key phrases "family business" or "family dynamics." You can immediately change the news items that appear by selecting one or the other phrase. The phrase generating the current view is shown in bold type and the other phrase that can be selected to produce another set of articles is underlined. We also have the opportunity to participate in polls that we might use to find consensus of opinions in the development of theory or practice.

Please respond to the poll questions as they appear and let me know your ideas about moving this online community of learners forward.

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