tailieunhanh - UNIT 2. UNDERSTANDING NEEDS AND ASSESSING OPPORTUNITIES LESSON 4. SKILLS AND RESOURCES FOR AN ONLINE COMMUNITY

Defining your idea: building up your team and identifying goals Needs assessment: assessing the needs of the potential online community building assessment. Analysing technical, financial, institutional and social barriers | Information Management Resource Kit Module on Building Electronic Communities and Networks UNIT 2. UNDERSTANDING NEEDS AND ASSESSING OPPORTUNITIES LESSON 4. SKILLS AND RESOURCES FOR AN ONLINE COMMUNITY NOTE Please note that this PDF version does not have the interactive features offered through the IMARK courseware such as exercises with feedback pop-ups animations etc. We recommend that you take the lesson using the interactive courseware environment and use the PDF version for printing the lesson and to use as a reference after you have completed the course. FAO 2006 2. Understanding Needs and Assessing Opportunities - 4. Skills and resources for an online community - page 1 Objectives At the end of this lesson you will be able to recognize steps needed to assess capacity of your organization and stakeholders and identify cost considerations to be made at the assessment stage. Introduction In this lesson we will discuss the capacity building assessment one of the needs analysis activities. Defining your idea building up your team and identifying goals Needs assessment assessing the needs of the potential online community members Capacity building assessment Analysing technical financial institutional and social barriers 2. Understanding Needs and Assessing Opportunities - 4. Skills and resources for an online community - page 2 What is capacity Do we have enough skills and resources to carry out our community building project As you know it is very important to focus your needs analysis so that you use your time wisely and also answer the right questions to know how to build your online community effort. What is the capacity of you and other stakeholders to build and sustain an online community What is capacity When we talk about capacity we are referring to anything that an individual organization or an entire community needs to fulfill its goals. It could mean either the skill or time to handle activities such as production of an electronic newsletter .