CAB - Communication Agents Blog

Communication Agents Check Out Their New Drafted Sites (Limbo State Next)

Sorry for the sort interruption of transmission due to the increased intensification of tasks falling under my responsibilities in the last 48 hours.

The new 4 Communication Agents sites have been now drafted and are being reviewed by the CAs to refine titles, taglines and main categories to be used. These sites are the fruit of at least two weeks of quite intense work, where the accepted applicants have been exchanging and cross-breeding each other ideas and viewpoints inside our private CA Learning Hub, where all of the informations, instructions and exchanges relating to our individual learning paths take place.

I am very happy to have finally reached the point where each one of the selected CAs can now see some of the fruits of this long and intense work.

Let me share also with you the initial looks and spirit of these four new sites while welcoming your positive comments and critical suggestions as always.

Here is how are four brave Communication Agents are going to look like:

Zoe Lenska prototype Web site

Joe Samsen prototype Web site

Andrea rieniets prototype Web site

Sebastian Fiedler prototype Web site

Now all four of the above Communication Agents will enter a so-called Limbo State. In this phase lasting at most a few days, they will gradually fill-in each one of the content categories they have selected for their site with at least one relevant article/commentary or post.

They will also spend time to revise, edit and refine some of the editorial elements of the new site and adjusting with my help the finishing touches on the looks as well.

Applications Closed: Ready To Hike!

I have finally closed the applications for the Communication Agents Initiative and I am very satisfied with the first group of applicants that I have passed the application process.

These individuals forms a uniquely talented group of communicators working for social change.

They have chosen to invest their time and resources to extend their reach, the exposure and visibility they have and to learn the communication skills and tools that will allow them to create effective opportunities for change action around the world.

These individuals come form the most diverse arrays of life and from all parts of the world. Each one of them is focussed on one or more Areas for Change that they have selected to address.

Among this first group of Communication Agents are a musician, an academic researcher, an entrepreneur, a book writer, a painter, a social activist and other individuals who have chosen to work hard at communicating as best as they can that time for change has now come.

Let me introduce officially to you these fine team of communicators:

Heidi Hanson and Joe Samsen (California)

Klaus and Gabi Rudolph (Germany)

Zoe Lenska (Canada)

Andrea rieniets (Australia)

Fernanda Ibarra (Mexico)

Sebastian Fiedler (Germany)

Suhit Anantula (India) (I am unsure about the role and future of Suhit as he has suddenly dropped out of my radar for some physical problems. I would hope that he soon recovers and evaluates in which mode he is going to contribute his abilities and passion for social communication).

plus our three pioneer CAs, at work since almost 2 full months:

Sepp Hasslberger - Health Supreme

Chris Gupta - Share The Wealth

Ivan Ingrilli - Grillo Parlante

In the coming week I will start to work for setting each one of them up and preparing them for a successfull online launch. In these first few days Communication Agents will better define some of the elements of their Web site, and the style and theme of their communications. I am going to collaborate with each one of them and they will be able to exchange and support each other as well.

A private web site holds the keys to their learning and each one of them will soon receive hir precious access keys to enter it.

Inside the Communication Agents Learning Hub (that is how their private site is called) I have provided all of the necessary information and resources to move swiftly around step one as well as providing a support forum, a meeting room, profiles for all Communication Agents and access to tools for communicating more easily among us.

I wish all of them, a great, learning journey.
Waves are the sign of our success.

Robin

WANTED: Media Antidote

The International Festival for Tactical Media brings together art, campaigns, experiments in media, technology, and transcultural politics.

The organisers are looking for films, videotapes, DVDs and CDs created with a specific social, cultural or political agenda.

In other words, they want the media of crisis, criticism and opposition - an antidote to the world as we see it represented in the mainstream.

Amsterdam, 11 - 14 September 2003

Ask Robin Good! Live Online Clinic Allows You To Clarify Your Doubts

If you like to learn more, ask me questions directly and clarify issues that are not too clear, you are welcome to partickipate in a FREE Online Clinic covering the Communication Agents Initiative and related issues. How to apply, requirements, learning path, costs, etc.

The online clinic will take place this coming Thursday at 12pm EST (9am PST, 5pm GMT, 12 midnight BKK) on the Internet (You can synchronize your clock with the World Clock and checking for 6pm Rome time) . This open session allows for each one fo you to hear me live with any standard PC (Macs not supported yet, sorry) and to address live questions to me. The voice quality is impressive and is generally much better than what we could on an international phone conversation. There is no cost for you to participate in this.

If you are interested in participating just sign-up through the Comment box here below and I will be happy to personally send you the login information to participate.

System requirements (to participate in the online voice conference):

PC Pentium with Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT, XP
Audio board, speakers and microphone or better yet headset with microphone
Internet connection at 28.8 Kbps or better