Lesson 5: Remove barriers
The easier it is for new participants to join, the better. So listen carefully to what the biggest problems are for your participants. In our case, participants initially needed information, but the logistics around registrations soon became the biggest problem (especially for the larger organizations). We chose to build a central website for this, thanks to a sponsor . A lot of work, but we removed a big blocker for many organizations. This allowed us to grow from 1 to 24 participating government organizations within six months.
The Train Your Colleague website facilitates the registration and search for training courses, which removes an important barrier to participation.
Lesson 6: Use your network and connect
In open organizing, the best initiatives emerge when participants join forces. Therefore, make sure that participants can easily connect with each other . This is mainly a basic attitude that is in the small things. An example: if you have someone in mind to perform a certain task, you can ask that person directly, but you can also put the question on a forum and then point that person brazil telegram data to the new topic. You never know who is reading along. We saw that various organizations worked together to organize the week, often because we were able to link participants to each other or to people within our own network. Of course, this connection also happens offline to a large extent .
Lesson 7: You have to rely on your friends
Working with partners (no, friends !) means that you have access to a much broader network through those friends. And that is very important in open organizing. Such a collaboration does not necessarily have to take up a lot of time: just promoting each other can also be very effective. So think about which parties are the most interesting for you.