[Dialogue] Welcome to our new website!

Mon Sep 7 06:24:26 PDT 2015

Dear all,

I am excited to launch the new ICAI website today! *P**lease do* take a 
look around, and share comments on the site 
<http://www.ica-international.org> orcontact usdirectly with your 
feedback and sugegstions.

best wishes,
Martin

==

*Welcome to our new website!*
/http://www.ica-international.org/2015/09/07/welcome-to-our-new-website/ /

Welcome to the new ICAI new website, launched today!  This new site is 
designed to provide an engaging platform for member ICAs and ICA 
colleagues to communicate with each other and with the wider world. We 
hope that you will like it, and and that you will use it and share it!

Everything that you used to find on the ICAI site is still available 
somewhere, including online archives of our Winds & Waves 
<http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/01/winds-waves-magazine-archive/> 
magazine and monthly news bulletin the Global Buzz 
<http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/01/global-buzz-archive/>.  If 
you can’t find what you are looking for, feel free to contact us 
<http://www.ica-international.org/contact-us/> to ask. Read on for an 
overview of some of what you can already find here, some of what is 
coming and some of what will be possible for the future.

*On the* *Home page <http://www.ica-international.org/>* you will find 
the latest tweets and news updatates from ICAI and our members around 
the world, plus featured news posts and publications, and menus and a 
search function to help you to navigate the site.  You can also opt to 
have Google auto-translate the entire site into another language of your 
choice.  We may want to add a calendar here, for ICAI and members to 
publicise their events.

The news posts you will find already here are mostly drawn from recent 
issues of our current monthly bulletin the Global Buzz 
<http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/01/global-buzz-archive/>.  The 
new site will enable member ICAs 
<http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/our-global-network/> to log 
in and post their news updates and photos directly, whenever they have 
news to share, and a monthly digest will then be emailed to Global Buzz 
subscribers.  There will be a role to play for volunteer editors to 
support members to do this, at least at first, and to monitor members’ 
own websites and social media posts for news and stories to re-publish 
here – so if you might be interested in such a role, please contact us 
<http://www.ica-international.org/contact-us/>.

*About us <http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/>* is substantially 
updated to reflect how ICAI now operates since we introduced our present 
peer to peer 
<http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/our-global-strategy/> 
approach in 2010.  Still to come soon are individual profiles for each 
Board member to complete and maintain, that will be linked to Our global 
Board <http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/our-global-board/> and 
to Contact us <http://www.ica-international.org/contact-us/>.  I hope we 
will also add a members’ section here, to share internal ICA policy, 
governance and other documents with members only.

*ICA Worldwide <http://www.ica-international.org/ica-worldwide/>* 
provides a platform for member ICAs to share and update their profiles, 
to connect with each other and enable others to connect with them.  At 
present it includes just a very limited profile of each member, drawn 
from their response to ICAI’s recent global membership survey (and in 
some cases from their own websites), and email contacts only for their 
ICAI representatives on our global email list. Over the coming weeks and 
months, ICAI Board 
<http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/our-global-board/> members 
will be supporting members to log in to complete and update their 
profiles themselves by completing a simple form.  In future, members 
will be asked to update their profile at least annually, as they 
complete and update the annual membership survey in the same way.  
Members will also be able to create additional pages and sub-pages (in 
whatever language they choose), in order to use their profile as a mini 
website of their own if they wish. I hope that we will be arrange also 
for members’ own news updates to appear on their own profile pages.

*Conferences <http://www.ica-international.org/conferences/>* at present 
includes just a brief overview of the quadrennial Global Conference on 
Human Development that has ICAI has convened since 1984, and of the most 
recent hosted by ICA Nepal in 2012.  Our new 2016 Global Conference 
committee 
<http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/our-global-structures/> will 
be able to create and maintain additional pages here for our next 
conference.

*Publications <http://www.ica-international.org/category/publications/>* 
includes links to our archives of Winds & Waves 
<http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/01/winds-waves-magazine-archive/> 
magazine, theGlobal Buzz 
<http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/01/global-buzz-archive/>, and 
our pre-2010 newsletter Network Exchange 
<http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/01/network-exchange-archive/>, 
plus the 2012 book of ICA Nepal Changing Lives Changing Societies 
<http://www.ica-international.org/2014/01/02/changing-lives-changing-societies/> 
and the new 2015 ICA Handbook 
<http://www.ica-international.org/2015/07/31/ica-handbook/> of Terry 
Bergdall od ICA USA.  Future issues of Winds & Waves magazine and other 
ICAI publications will be posted here, and ICAs will be encouraged and 
supported to post their own publications here as well.

*ToP Facilitation 
<http://www.ica-international.org/top-facilitation/top-facilitation/>* 
includes an overview of ICA’s Technology of Participation facilitation 
methods, training and CTF certification, copied over from the ToP pages 
of the previous site, and links to ICA ToP training providers around the 
world.  Our new Global ToP Policy Working Group 
<http://www.ica-international.org/about-us/our-global-structures/> will 
be able to use these pages, and new pages here as needed, to communicate 
the new ICA global ToP policy that was adopted by GA in July and to 
support its implementation by members.  I hope we will also be able to 
add a twitter feed from @ToPfacilitation 
<http://www.twitter.com/ToPfacilitation> to this section, as we have 
from @ICAI <http://www.twitter.com/icai> on the Home page.

*We are grateful* to Robert Liverpool <http://www.robertliverpool.com> 
for sharing his WordPress skills and considerable volunteer time to 
build this site for us.  Now it is up to us to use it, make it our own 
and make it work for us!

*We welcome your feedback or suggestions *for the website, and any other 
queries. *Most of all, we will welcome your commitment to co-create the 
site with us* by entering and updating your own profiles, news posts and 
publications, and by reading, sharing and engaging with what you find 
here. *Please do* share comments on the site, orcontact us 
<http://www.ica-international.org/contact-us/>directly.

-- 

*_Martin Gilbraith_*

*President, the Institute of Cultural Affairs International (ICAI) – 
www.ica-international.org <http://www.ica-international.org>*

/A global community of non-profit organisations advancing human 
development worldwide, ///

/ICAI has Category II Consultative Status with United Nations ECOSOC 
since 1985./

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