[Dialogue] Welcome to our new website!

Mon Sep 7 22:55:05 PDT 2015

Quite fabulous!

From: ica-network at ica-international.org
[mailto:ica-network at ica-international.org] On Behalf Of Martin Gilbraith
(ICAI)
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2015 7:24 AM
To: ica-network at ica-international.org
Cc: ICAEurope at yahoogroups.com; Colleague Dialogue; Springboard Dialogue
Subject: Welcome to our new website!

Dear all,

I am excited to launch the new ICAI website today!  Please do take a look
around, and share comments on the site
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4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  or contact
us directly 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/ 

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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
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4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2f2014%2f01%2f01%2fwinds-waves-magazine-archive%2f&si=6550854050512896&p
i=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38> & Waves magazine and monthly news
bulletin the Global Buzz
<http://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2f2014%2f01%2f01%2fglobal-buzz-archive%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a
2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38> .  If you can't find what you are looking
for, feel free to contact us
<http://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fcontact-us%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3
f38>  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://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  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
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4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2f2014%2f01%2f01%2fglobal-buzz-archive%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a
2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38> .  The new site will enable member ICAs
<http://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fabout-us%2four-global-network%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-
4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  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://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fcontact-us%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3
f38> .

About us
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4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fabout-us%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f3
8>  is substantially updated to reflect how ICAI now operates since we
introduced our present peer to peer
<http://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fabout-us%2four-global-strategy%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3
-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  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
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4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fabout-us%2four-global-board%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-42
15-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  and to Contact us
<http://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fcontact-us%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3
f38> .  I hope we will also add a members' section here, to share internal
ICA policy, governance and other documents with members only.

ICA Worldwide
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4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fica-worldwide%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90e
eb3f38>  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
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4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fabout-us%2four-global-board%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-42
15-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  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://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fconferences%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb
3f38>  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
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4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fabout-us%2four-global-structures%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05
b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  will be able to create and maintain additional
pages here for our next conference.

Publications
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4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fcategory%2fpublications%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b
6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  includes links to our archives of Winds
<http://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2f2014%2f01%2f01%2fwinds-waves-magazine-archive%2f&si=6550854050512896&p
i=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38> & Waves magazine, the Global Buzz
<http://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2f2014%2f01%2f01%2fglobal-buzz-archive%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a
2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38> , and our pre-2010 newsletter Network
Exchange
<http://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2f2014%2f01%2f01%2fnetwork-exchange-archive%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=28
78a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38> , plus the 2012 book of ICA Nepal
Changing Lives Changing Societies
<http://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2f2014%2f01%2f02%2fchanging-lives-changing-societies%2f&si=6550854050512
896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  and the new 2015 ICA Handbook
<http://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2f2015%2f07%2f31%2fica-handbook%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-
4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  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://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2ftop-facilitation%2ftop-facilitation%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2
-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  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://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fabout-us%2four-global-structures%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05
b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  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
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4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.twitter.com%2fToPf
acilitation&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  to
this section, as we have from @ICAI
<http://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.twitter.com%2ficai
&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  on the Home
page.

We are grateful to Robert Liverpool
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4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.robertliverpool.co
m&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3f38>  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, or contact us
<http://t.sidekickopen18.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg6
4QPW6N63Rxbbf6BCbVRzDdF56dxDtf1nhNVb02?t=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ica-international.
org%2fcontact-us%2f&si=6550854050512896&pi=2878a1a2-05b3-4215-b6c1-eef90eeb3
f38>  directly.

-- 

Martin Gilbraith

President, the Institute of Cultural Affairs International (ICAI) -
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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