In older days the world was a plate, after that it was a ball and just now it is a network. (cp. J. Tomlinson 1999) It’s a simple truth: The world is changing. Not only the technical development is in process, the human development is in process too. Even more: The biological and the social nature of men got completed with a technical one. Already in 1985 Donna Haraway realized that and penned “a Cyborg Manifesto”. Her credo: “We are all Cyborgs...
Internet, Social Media & Volunteering (Part II)
At the end of July I published the first part of my column about Internet, Social Media and Volunteering. On one hand it is part of my preparations for the ‘master class’ session at 19th Volonteurope Conference in Athens this year. On the other hand it is also an approach to raise the interactivity even before the start of the conference. In my last blogpost I tried to describe the history of the Internet since the first really usable computers...
Internet, Social Media & Volunteering (Part I)
A few months ago the board of Volonteurope has accepted my proposal for its 19th conference this year in Athens. Just like I’ve already done it for my infoshop for the Lebenshilfe at castle Rauischholzhausen earlier this year, I’ll prepare for this presentation via my blog. Of course not only to improve my written English! Following the feedback from last years participants, Piotr Sadowski (the Volonteurope General Secretary) asked me, and...
Fit 4 Online-Volunteering – The essential Investments
Like I promised at the end of my workshop: Here you can see my slides … Fit 4 Online Volunteering View more presentations from foulder At first we spoke about the Definition of Online-Volunteering. It’s always important to do that to avoid misunderstandings about the special volunteer field. Sometimes people think the term Online-Volunteering means only to match volunteers via the internet. But this is only one part of this new way to...