PeerConnect Services
PeerConnect’s four service offerings represent the “journey” of members through increasing levels of familiarity and trust - from sharing, to consulting, to collaborating, to engaging as a group.
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Connect with your professional colleagues
SHARE is PeerConnect’s social networking space, where Community members interact informally. It works like other social networks – Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp etc. – but is designed specifically for professional interactions, with a high “content to noise ratio” to maximize its usefulness. In addition to offering useful material, SHARE is where members to get to know each other, an important dimension of community-building.
Items shared include
News – The latest developments in the sector or program; what’s happening where – event and award announcements and proceedings, funding and partnering opportunities, training and job opportunities, journals and publications, transitions etc.
Views – Blog posts, podcasts, articles and other opinion pieces authored or contributed by members
Information – Reference material, databases, portals
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What’s Required
Commitment
The effort must be initiated by a champion – a senior authority, well respected by the potential Community members, who appreciate the value of community and is willing to invest the time and energy and accept the risks inherent in leading a transformational initiative..
Funds
Sustaining the vibrancy of PeerConnect’s online forums calls for hands-on management by full-time professionals. Typically a 2-3 person “Facilitation Team” can cover forums of up to 4,000 members. Costs for platform licenses (shared with PeerConnect), communications material, and face-to-face events should also be budgeted for.
Talent.
Managing these online forums calls for skills and competencies not typically found in recruitment database indexes – networker, motivator, facilitator. A host agency must be able to find and select the best possible candidates at a reasonable pay level.
“PeerConnect’s approach to community-building is not a technology solution. It can trigger a cultural transformation in the flow of knowledge and information, from a formal top-down or hub-and-spoke model to an informal horizontal or nodal model”
What people are saying
“Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.”
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“Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.”
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