Help Design NVC Group Format for the CNVC Website
Glenda Mattinson
There is currently no “real” way to add a group to the CNVC website**. I have been asked by the CNVC Webmaster to design the information that NVC groups will be able to provide about themselves.
I would like your participation in doing this, to help ensure the result is satisfying for our whole community. I have created a first draft which everyone should be able to edit – at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p6HBFi7KGIun3MYfF6EiRew&hl=en (NVC Groups World-wide). It is made up of 4 “pages” of information – look for the tabs at the bottom of the screen (see below my signature for more detail on these pages).
Would you be willing to go to the file and add in your group, plus add columns or new pages for any other information you would like to see, and provide other types of feedback on the “Questions / Concerns” page (e.g., material you would like to see removed or changed - and why)?
Thank you for considering this request. As soon as I discover what I need to do to edit the “Community” pages on the CNVC website, I hope to provide a link there to this file. This will make it easy for people inside and outside the NVC Community to start using the material you provide right away, while we work together to make a final decision about what we want “officially” on the website.
Given the importance of this item to our world-wide community, I’m wondering if some of you would be willing to help ensure that information is included from people who do not speak English? (Another of the high-priority tasks I have been asked to take on is developing a process for CNVC document translation that meets the needs of both CNVC and the NVC Global Network, building on work done by CNVC and Jori and Jim Manske and the GCC.)
Looking forward to seeing what we will co-create together.
Warmly,
J
Glenda Mattinson
Coordinator – Global Community Circle
The 4 pages of group info:
1 - Geographic Groups – groups whose membership is defined primarily by geographic location (e.g., Hawaii NVC).
2 - Theme-based Groups – e.g., Restorative Justice, NVC in Schools. Theme-based groups may also focus within a particular geographic area.
3 - Group Vision, Mission and Aim – the purpose of your group, expressed in whatever terms are meaningful to your group.
4 - Group Connections – This is designed to capture only a subset of the kinds of connections that groups have with one another – the kinds of connection where multiple local groups combine into a regional group – where we could contact one person or group and they could pass information along to (or from) multiple other groups, without a lot of world-wide duplication.
**Note: Although some of you have “found” the “Find a Group” item on the CNVC website, this is only a temporary work-around – and one that requires use of the time of our skilled IT staff for each and every entry. I’m not happy about the use of our IT staff time for this purpose, because it could be used for so many other useful things, and because I don’t believe the end result is very useful to our community – there is so much more information I would like to see about each group listed.