In Brussels tomorrow, I will be meeting with several @HubBrussels members to discuss the start up of Micro-Success – an experimental collaborative support group for social enterprises. It is my intention to ask participants to commit to participating in the group for 6 months, with regular meetings and some introductory use of using social media and collaborative online tools to communicate with each other.
With this post, I am also now inviting changemaker start-ups from around the world to participate in a similar online-only experimental collaborative support group for start-ups that I will create space for in early 2010 at Ned.com.
Both in Brussels offline and virtually online, the purpose of the group is to
- share our successes and challenges,
- hold each other accountable to our monthly business development goals,
- encourage each other toward further progress,
- identify opportunities for fruitful collaboration, and
- help each other get our projects up & running at full steam.
The Micro-Success group at ned.com will be a local + global members only group space, where participants can communicate to collaborate with each other in a publicly viewable environment for an experimental period of 6 months.
1- 3 members of each participating project team can become Micro-Success group members at ned.com. All members of the MicroSuccess group will be invited to contribute to the Micro-Success blog channel at Internet4Change.com, where I hope we can capture some promising new practices and practical lessons that result from this effort in modelling local and global #socent collaboration.
If you or a Social Enterprise you know are interested in participating in the Micro-Success group online, please contact me through a private message via my profile at ned.com. Tell me a bit about your initiative – what you hope to achieve, and where you’re at in that process now.
If there are more than 12 start-up initiatives interested in participating online only, I will create a public poll to select participants for the 6 month pilot.
At tomorrow’s meeting @HubBrussels (14:00 – 17:00 37 Rue du Prince Royal, 1050 Brussels), we will be introducing ourselves, making some group decisions about how to operate, and setting an agenda for our expectations as a group. A wrap up of that meeting will set the tone for developing the Micro-Success group infrastructure at Ned.com.
Stay tuned, and please share this invitation with the Social Enterprise start-ups you know online.
