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The primary goals of the Internal Communications team are to streamline and optimize communications between all parties in the BeWelcome community, which means

Teams
volunteers
members, and
the BeVolunteer Board of Directors

These all need effective ways to manage flows of information and communications between them and within their own work groups. Optimized channels of communication will

speed our work together;
give us a firm basis of knowledge for decision-making;
and prevent us from being overwhelmed by non-useful information.

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Team forum area BV Comm Tools *edit

Team members

Team coordination: [edit]

Valerie (valerii)^wikitalk - elected on October 14th 07 mas o menos
Jared (jsacks)^wikitalk - chosen as co-coordinator

Other members: [edit]

Communication plays many roles besides simply allowing us to maintain the site. Good communication helps us innovate, collaborate, coordinate our actions, and connect to each other as individuals and colleagues.

Aside from all these, how we handle communication is a major topic on the internet and for social networks and hospex sites in general. Openness and privacy, transparency and governance, the sharing and security of information are all crucial to participating in an organization like BeWelcome. If hospitality exchange is about trust, then communications and how we handle it requires careful thought. Facilitating these discussion as well as other issues in a multi-cultural environment provides us with a worthy challenge.

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How to join?

As a very new team we first want to organize our methods and determine priorities, so for now we have enough members, thank you. However if you are interested in supporting this team in the near future, please contact one of us, or make a team application at http://www.bevolunteer.org/forum/index.php?board=72.0 Thanks for your interest, and don't hesitate to just ...communicate with us :)

Some initial thoughts on this team and its purpose

Internal communications - and here i mean ALL communications, between members and volunteers, teams and the BoD – are important beyond simply running the site. Sharing ideas, visions, new features and possibilities, deepens the sense of community so that it's fun and beneficial to individuals, not just the organization.

With well-configured flows of information between people, teams, etc - cooperation and productivity is enhanced. Signal to noise ratio goes up! And just as important, our contributions are seen, our voices are heard, and we learn more from each other. Good communications provides powerful support for all the intentions and aims of the project.... not to mention, a good vibe!

Alternatively, bad communications can damage individual abilities to contribute, disharmonize groups, screw up projects and deadlines, and overwhelm people with useless information while making it difficult to find what is needed.

In other words.. communications is not only about management, in the sense of 'managing volunteers'... it is crucial infrastructure that helps determine how people feel about the organization. It can support members to *become* and remain volunteers. "Internal" communication is what maintains real transparency and respect for each others' voices. It is a basis for trust. --valerii 12:22, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

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