Rural Community Carbon Network

Yesterday, I was at Collaborate|2008 in Dunchurch near Rugby - this is the ruralnet|uk convention which was jam-packed full of people wanting to be inspired, learn more about collaborative tools and take away a new idea or contact. If you could not make it, check out the video streaming that happened live, straight to the website.

The IT team at ruralnet|uk have been working flat-out over the last few weeks to unveil the ‘Community Carbon Network‘ - which is the foundation for the online community of climate change groups. It pulls all the useful information which is ‘out there’ and being created by communities and organisations in isolation - and brings it all together in one place, for the benefit of the community. To underpin this and help ensure that all the good stuff people are doing is accessible, we will provide a free weblog to communities that want to share what they are doing with others.

The next step is to organise a one-day training session with a group of communities that want to get online - or enhance their online presence. The benefits to being able to openly share knowledge and experience throughout a networked community are enormous; it will help new groups to contact people who have ‘been there and done that’- as well provide the opportunity for more established groups to share with others what they have learnt in a much more efficient and collaborative way.

Please do contact me (Sam) on 0845 1300 411 if you are a community interested in benefiting from a network of other like-minded communities.

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