A Giant First Step for the Peace Corps Community
February 26th, 2005 by Scott Stadum.Reiterating what I had said earlier about Third Goal being a great site, I think it is a remarkable step in the right direction for the Peace Corps volunteer community. As it is right now, the volunteer community is loosely joined together through a hodge-podge of inter-related web sites, web groups and unorganized online communities. This site has the potential to organize our global community into a more recognizable entity and to share information, resources and ideas more fluidly.
As it is, volunteers have no intranet, no on-line archival system for sharing primary and secondary project information, no organized structure for sharing grant, funding and resource information, and no on-line system that is organized for the entire Peace Corps community. We need to recognize the potential of the internet, there is a lot more we could do in our communities if we had the means to share our collective knowledge.
Folks, get cracking out there, add stories, ideas and thoughts to this site. What has been started here is something remarkable and a laudable first step in getting ourselves organized.
March 1st, 2005 at 10:23 pm
If you have any ideas on how I can make Third Goal more useful, feel free to share them here. No promosies that it will expand beyond its simplistic and easy-to-use beginning, but I’m happy to receive feedback.
March 9th, 2005 at 7:02 am
Jason,
I think this site is fantastic and long overdue, as was PeaceCorps Online: http://peacecorpsonline.org.
The agency or the NPCA should have been forward-thinking enough to support volunteers and foster a stronger connection between folks in the RPCV community by creating these online forums, but I’m afraid both are too controlled to be so revolutionary.
Hats off to you and here’s hoping this site takes off and soars!