Collaboration Tools and Process

Movement as Network

In early 2004, ONE/Northwest’s executive director, Gideon Rosenblatt published a paper called “Movement as Network: Connecting People and Organizations in the Environmental Movement.” This think piece represents much of the philosophical underpinning of ONE/Northwest’s work in the decade ahead.

A Strategy for Using Email Lists

Is your organization using email lists as well as it could? Read on to find out how we think EVERY Northwest environmental group should use email lists every day.

Signing Documents Electronically with EchoSign

Signing documents (like contracts) online can eliminate a lot of paper-shuffling hassle. Here's how we use EchoSign to do it.

Avoiding the Dark Side of Email

Email is a powerful tool with unique advantages over speech and other forms of writing, but can cause problems not found in those other forms of communication. Many hints and suggestions for email's predictable yet avoidable problems including "flaming". Getting others to read and respond to your posts.

Today Messages: A Simple, Effective Technique for Improving Small Group Coordination

Heres a simple and effective way that small organizations (or project teams) can use email to improve group coordination and collaboration. Start sending today messages -- short, daily updates on what you did that day.

Sample Guidelines for a Large Email Discussion List

These sample email list guidelines are adapted from the guidelines for a large, actively moderated discussion list. Smaller, more informal lists may be able to make do with a much shorter version.

Tips for Facilitating an Environmental Email List

Tips for facilitating environmental email discussion lists, including the "soft" skills of email list facilitation, including encouraging relevant discussion, curtailing excess wordiness, and evening out the flow of discussion. Technical issues involved in email list facilitation.

Guidelines for Participating in an Email List

Tips for participating effectively on email discussion lists

Making Phone Calls Over the Internet

A new generation of "voice-over-IP" tools can let you make free/cheap phone calls over the Internet -- to and from ordinary phones! This offers small organizations and folks working from home the opportunity to save substantially on long distance phone costs. But, as with any new service, setup and reliability can be issues.

Scheduling Meetings: Two Tools That Help

MeetingWizard and Meet-o-Matic are two simple, free tools that can help make it easier to schedule meetings.

YouSendIt.com: a simple, free solution for sending files that are too big to email

YouSendIt.com allows you to easily send large files to folks without email.