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 Number 5, January 2003
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publisher: Isoph (http://www.isoph.com/)
editor in chief: Celisa Steele | senior editor: Jeff Cobb
contributing editors: Christian Oliver and Bill Tucker
sophist@isoph.com
This issue of The Sophist explores Web conferencing and synchronous training, growing trends in the nonprofit sector.
The novelty of Web conferencing as a medium defamiliarizes the act of meeting with others and provides a transitory opportunity: Before Web conferencing becomes as familiar as the phone or e-mail, we should take advantage of this moment to reflect on what makes for good meetings. The defamiliarization that Web conferencing causes can help us not only learn something from meeting but also learn something about meeting. More >>
Unlike other technologies used to replace face-to-face meetings (telephone and e-mail, for example), Web conferencing allows for layered communication, combining the visual, the vocal, the aural, and the participatory. The different layers and forms of communication enabled by Web conferencing can appeal to different learning styles and promote more effective knowledge-sharing than other means of communication that rely narrowly on a single type of interaction. More >>
"Monolog" is a standing column, in which we ask one person to share his or her point of view on issues pertinent to those involved with socially-focused organizations. In this issue, Tim Mills-Groninger of the IT Resource Center offers his thoughts. More >>
The Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management) has transformed one of its on-the-ground workshops into a synchronous Web-based offering. The Sophist reports on the Institute’s experience. More >>
This issue features several references on synchronous online training, the digital divide, and online learning and training opportunities and more. More >>
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