Online Expertise The core content of the site is guidance and support for diversity-related action. Rather than just giving information about diversity trends and dynamics in society, DoingDiversityWork.com offers practical guidance and tools for strategizing and implementing diversity work. The online expertise promotes and enables diversity initiatives that seek to improve organizational performance evidenced through key indicators—such as productivity, profitability/cost effectiveness/cost controls, corporate citizenship, environmental stewardship, employee engagement, graduation rates, adherence rates, new patents, etc. The Community's online expertise is far less expensive, and in many ways more attentive to "green" concerns, than traditional face-to-face expertise delivery. Online expertise is available on your schedule. Online expertise is far more readily "searchable" than traditional avenues of delivery, such as print, video, and face-to-face. The online environment offers exposure to experience and expertise across industries, geographies, sectors of the economy, from internals and externals--from people you might otherwise never have the opportunity to be exposed to! back to top Ask the Experts DoingDiversityWork.com offers two kinds of forums for asking for guidance and resources for your immediate needs. DoingDiversityWork.com utilizes networked expertise—feedback from our members, as well as on-going discussions of the issues raised. Alternatively, questions can be submitted to our staff experts. We'll select from submitted questions, and offer responses from our staff, or invite guest experts to respond. (Members who are experts can share their expertise in this way, and gain greater exposure for their work at the same time.) While we may not be able to respond to all questions, we seek to provide timely response to members’ needs whenever possible. We'll post questions and their responses on the site, to be accessed by all members, and open opportunities for on-going discussions from members. back to top Network Development You don’t have to “re-invent the wheel” or work in isolation. DoingDiversityWork.com helps you build your network and expertise in a number of ways. Build and maintain an online support system for yourself. Hear inspiring success stories and cautionary tales to inform your work. Accelerate your learning curve by finding and utilizing tools others have created, tested and honed, and speaking online directly with the creators. Tap the expertise of others who have had success with what you are doing. Find others to work with--with similar interests or doing similar work. Contribute your tools and expertise to people whose work you’d like to support. back to top Connections Job Postings Calls for Associates RFPs Calls for Creative Collaboration
'Classifieds' (Contract Partners Needed, Local Networking Meeting Notices, etc) The Community has a place for you to make connections with others, to accomplish specific and usually temporary goals. The Connections Section is the place to post calls for collaboration, job openings, notices, RFPs, and such. What is "Creative Collaboration"? For example, do you have only half the budget for a particular guest speaker? Post here for another organization near you to share the speaker and split expenses with you! Community members can post and reply 24/7. back to top Searchable Archives DoingDiversityWork.com 'archives' the online learning and sharing, for you to access when you need it. DoingDiversityWork.com is a living database-- actively growing, retaining the contributions of members, from discussions to documents, with a powerful search tool to help you in finding resources and information you need. We also sort and connect materials via a number of parameters, to ease access via your chosen path, and help you see related work that is available to support your efforts. back to top | Tools and Resources Get and share tools and resources to design and execute effective diversity work. In many instances, this can eliminate the need to start from scratch and “reinvent the wheel.” DoingDiversityWork.com offers tools, developed by our experts and the greater DoingDiversityWork.com Community, for an array of diversity-work needs. We seek to gather and offer a wide range of training tools, agendas, checklists, scripts, and numerous other kinds of resources--from samples to templates to advice, to guide and execute your work. Our staff will post resources we've built, and we'll receive resources members have built, and post them in a manner that makes them readily accessible to all members. Together, we're enabling the development of one of the most vast, and vastly usable, resource centers for doing diversity work. Find the resources you need more easily here, as we'll sort them in a number of ways to improve your access to just the tools you need. As the community grows, you'll be able to view and discuss tools from a variety of sources. You will even be able to find examples of work that can help you with some of your needs that can't be met online--like finding guest speakers, examples of the work of external consultants that you may want to bring in for entirely custom work, and finding others who share your needs that you may want to combine resources with to bring in external expertise. As the community grows, we can even develop tools collaboratively online. The result is an opportunity to move forward faster, see results sooner, build greater momentum, and gain greater organizational support. back to top Hot Topic Discussions Diversity issues often arise related to current events, pending events, and trends. The Hot Topics section of DoingDiversityWork.com is the place to raise and work with particularly timely or immediate issues. This section offers members the opportunity to start and participate in dialogs with colleagues across organizations and distances, share insights and tools, collaborate to build new tools, and gain support for your work on urgent issues. As hot topics cool, we’ll integrate the tools and discussions into the comprehensive database of online consulting, and catalog it for searchability. back to top E-Café Stories can be an interesting way to learn, revitalize, or relax. We'd like to post diversity related stories in our E-Café/ E-zine/ Writer’s Corner. You bring the coffee and through our members, we'll provide some reading for your coffee break. Find stories to use in a training session or meeting. Gain support learning from other's experiences. Explore diversity related ideas and contexts. Submit a story for possible selection and posting. Share your stories in discussions related to the stories. Or perhaps on your break (or any other time!) you'd like to check out other opportunities, such as: other diversity-related sites/resources, business or educational tools you might find useful for connecting your organization with its diversity work, look for a diversity conference to participate in, or play a game that is good for your brain and provides food to the UN World Food Program to end hunger! We'll post a variety of opportunities in the E-cafe, and News and Events sections. back to top |
