How and Why to post on this “blog”?

What is this “Network Design Sketchbook?

This is a hub for Climate Chance network designers, project managers to share and open their ideas for public to be scrutinised.  It is the most important virtual platform for dialogues after the National Forum (physical gatherings).  By making the connections, dwelling on possibilities, we “create” a climate for change.

What purpose does it serve?

1- Make transparent the process of the network design, or project planning, and more importantly, the structures governing our ways of thinking, so we can  communicate with one another as to how we build our organisation.

2-  Dialogue with people from outside of the network, your Ideas (from website dialogue box, emails) and our replies:

This may include:

- Anything to do with answering the question - “Why we are here” ?
-    Vision- What does the world we envision look like?
-    Change Model - How can we enact change in a way consistent with the emergent world?
-    Who – people who are in the network, or our partners, why are they here?¬¬¬¬

3- Event Announcements, any of our members, volunteers or affiliated groups can gain access and publish events, and our team will automatically link it to all other blogs, Google calendar, twitter, face book, website etc. (depending on the scale and frequency)

Including opportunities (workshop, conferences, leadership training etc) , activities (project events), national forums (physical gatherings like playing, meetings or Bohm Dialogues) etc.

4- Any personal sharings, original ideas and thoughts, or re-blogs which one finds inspiring.

5-Resources of recommended readings by our advisors such as Peter Senge, Roger Burton about system thinkings, leaderships etc. or news on climate change or UNFCCC etc.

How to post

1- Go to www.tumblr.com/login and login

username: climatechance@thenetworkforchange.org

Password - you know what (if you are a member who have not been to our network training, or a volunteer, you can write to us to become a “contributor” to this platform to gain the password)

2- Start with your name on the first line.

3- Tag either (or combination of)  : 

Design    Dialogue   Event   Inspired  Resource

4- Tag (if it falls in within below bold words)

• Design -    Network Design Sketchbook

o    Communicate graphics, branding, climate change communication
o    Connect -Partners, movements
o    Collaborate

o    Structure - of our network

o    Website - anything to do with the design of website

o Forms (google form for administrations)

o Project (i.e. Project-350; Project-Agent of Change)

How - how to post here, how to book facilities, how to run network or build organisations, logistic, planning etc.

• Dialogue

-  Website Dialogue Box- Anything sent from dialogue box of our website

- Purpose - Why are we here?

-Climate Change Cause - what lies at the root of climate change?

-    Vision- What does the world we envision look like?
-    Model of Change - How can we enact change in a way consistent with the emergent world?
-    People – people who are in the network, or our partners, why are they here?

-also used for team members to express any thoughts to each other

- Thanks - any expression of gratitude to anything

• Event

-    Opportunities - conference, workshop offered by other youth networks, NGOs etc
-    Activities - Events organised by any member of the network, project events
-    National Forum - any physical meetings
-    Press Report
-    Evaluation

-   Public Presentation

• Inspired

- Sharing (reblog or copy or quote of other people’s materials)

-Self-Reflection

-    WORDS
-    MUSIC
-    VIDEO
-    PHOTO
-    STORY

- THOUGHTS

• Resource recommended readings for enacting changes, our leadership model

- Leadership

- Model of Change

-System Thinking

-News

IMPORTANT:

1-     It is case-sensitive! So Make Sure All Tags Start With Capital And Ends With Small Letters.

2- When you quote - click “indent” so the paragraphs are shifted to the right, to

3- You may also insert multiple picture in between paragraphs  and embed multiple videos by copying the embed code of the video, click “HTML” (at the text editing toolbox) and past it in anywhere in the document.

To make it bigger - width change to 670, and calculate the height in proportion.

4- Other Tags?  Go ahead, however, may be removed and retagged if too messy.   Please contact the administrator - Adeel

5- If you update previous posts, please delete and clear out “Date this post” section so it get posted again (otherwise people won’t know)

If you have any questions: please contact climatechance@thenetworkforchange.org

or call Adeel at 93626308

About Climate Chance

Founded upon our delegation to UNFCCC COP13 United Nations Conference on Climate Change in 2007, Bali, we are university students who wish to collectively help build a just and sustainable world. We are the organizers of the first Asian Youth Climate Summit in 2008 and were formerly known as the Hong Kong Climate Change Coalition, before we started establishing regional boards in Macau and other areas of China. We are currently based at the University of Hong Kong.

We believe that climate change, as a man-made planetary crisis, it is symptomatic of the larger pattern of unsustainable development of the industrial era, a system based on extraction, manipulation and transportation of natural (and human) resources towards centralized locations for the purpose of accumulation and consumption, resulting in massive social and ecological degradations. The climatic system happens to be the most fragile sets an urgent timeframe for us to question the assumptions on which our current economic-political structure is based on.

Last Updated: Sep 28th 2009