Dear all,
I had the opportunity to discuss with several of you the many possibilities for assisting the group to maintain in contact after the Montreal meetings.
I shall be sending you an email regarding feedback separately this week. However I have re-opened the forums as one possible avenue for an initial discussion. This thread is for that purpose: what platform do you see as the most valuable to maintain dialogue and idea-sharing for the group?
Regards,
Paul Benfield
Hello Paul, Hello all,
First of, I hope you all had a wonderful time in Montreal.
As for the best method to keep discussions going, I believe email is the most efficient as it goes out and reaches people as opposed to waiting for people to log on to the website. However, answering with ''reply all'' can quickly clog a mailbox.
Thus, I think email would be most appropriate to advertise new discussion topics, but that the actual forum would be best for on-going discussions and sharing ideas.
Cheers,
Bruno Benedetti
Bruno Benedetti, ing., M.Ing., PA LEED
Ingénieur hydraulicien
RSW inc.
Dear Paul, dear All
Thank you for this very exciting event in Montreal.
I wish to thank particularly Bruno and his fellows from Montreal who made us a terrific post congress entertainment program.
Concerning the following steps, I will try to be as much as possible on the forum.
About the FELP program in itself it seemed to me important, to make possible a more active participation from the delegates. For future events, it could be relevant
to confront a little more the points of view. The delegate could have a better say in the program and take the debate in hand. Why couldn't the discussion group leaders
be chosen (elected?) after a short presentation of their point of view? This is not necessarily a matter of democracy, but it could stirr up the debate.
Indeed we should try not to ostracise some points of view and leave the possibility for all to participate.
Hoping to see you there on the Forum,
Cheers,
Olivier Durand-Lasserve
Paul,
Firstly, My heartfelt congratulations to you on the success of your months of efforts in making the FELP happen. Thank you and your team for all the help that you have provided us.
If I may make a suggestion, I definitely agree with Bruno that email is perhaps the best way to stay in touch very easily. How about we do this via emails on LinkedIn by creating a linkedin group?
The benefits are: we all as FEL's can stay in touch and continue to build professional networks via LinkedIn and have easy access ( one stop shop) for sharing our ideas.
I also want to bring this to your notice that there is already a FELP group created but in my opinion I think the WEC should moderate it and have us be the participants in it.
I am eager to learn what other thoughts my fellow colleagues may have.
Cheers!
Varun Gowda
Research Scientist and Project Leader
- Geothermal Economics, Research & Analysis
Energy & Geoscience institute (EGI)
www.egi.utah.edu
Dear Paul & dear All,
It was nice to meet you at Montreal and hear some of you.
Thanks to everyone for a great experience at WEC.
For the communication ideas, I think to start with, pictures of all FEL delegates may be added to the forum here or to the list sent by Paul. I am better with pictures than names (and I guess most of us are designed this way)
Staying in touch is a good idea, however to make it sustainable we need to have a purpose to which we stick....I believe FEL's can work on a project in their countries and probably be a member of the task force and contribute there and share whats happening where and discuss if things could be improved with synergies of young minds at this blog.This would need the efforts of WEC to make it structured and time bound.This may even be complimented with a meeting in between if need be.
Hope to hear more voices.
Cheers!
Shivika
Hi Paul and FELPs!
Like the previous contributors here, I also want to express my gratitude! It was a pleasure meeting all of you whom I have actually met. Unfortunately, time was not sufficient to get to know everyone in the group. However, many thanks to Paul for organizing all this and for his efforts to get us actively involved and many thanks to all of you, particularly for the discussion we had on Wednesday.
Speaking of which, I believe that a lot of points came up during this discussion that would well serve as project subjects. I recall for instance the question about the energy supply after 2050. Other projects could be based on the declaration. There are a lot of how- and why-questions arising from the declaration, if you ask me. Trying to answer such questions is one idea to stay in contact, although this would certainly only concern a limited group of people.
I do not believe that e-mails are a good idea, simply because there would be no topic based discussions and I do not believe that all of you want to read and get involved in everything that is being discussed and written. If you receive hundreds of e-mails about topics that don't really bother you, you will certainly get bored by such e-mails and not read them anymore. And if eventually there is an e-mail to a topic that you are interested in you don't read it at all.
Forums, be it here or on LinkedIn or Facebook or..., are certainly a better idea since everybody is free to read and contribute to the topics of personal interest. Maybe, a monthly newsletter wrapping up discussions or new topics or so could help to keep the involvement high. This would reduce the amount of e-mails for everybody to read, yet keep all of us informed.
By the way, there is a group "Future Energy Leaders Programme - WEC Montreal 2010" on Facebook already - created by me ;-) You are all invited to join!
However, regarding the platform for forums we need to consider that not all of us have got a Facebook or a LinkedIn account and that WEC can perhaps not officially administer forums on WEC external platforms.
After all, I believe that these forums - with the right setup - are the best way to stay in contact and thus the best way for us to move something. After challenging everybody else with our declaration we must challenge ourselves now!
All the best!
Martin
Hi everybody!
I express my appreciation to all of you for participating and sharing your experience. I also wish to extend my gratitude to Paul, Jean Marc and Melanie for organization FELP and being help and support during this interesting week at Montreal.
Thanks Martin and Christopher for creating FELP groups on Facebook and LinkedIn.
I invite all to join us, some of us are already in touch here on Facebook and LinkedIn, we are still waiting the rest.
We have already shared pictures from WEC 2010, please come and see them, some of them are quite interesting.
As for me the easiest way to be in contact is e-mail, but as the others marked it's not the best way, maybe only if you have some certain topics to discuss.
Facebook and LinkedIn are quite good to keep in touch, so once again invite all to join us.
Best wishes,
Nadezda.
Dear all,
Great ideas so far. I will be emailing the whole group once the deadline for feedback expires, i.e. early next week. I'll include a summary of the most common feedback received and also a reminder for the wider group to keep involved!
I'll have a look at whether an 'opt-in' digest or summary of posts on the forums is supported by our software as that would satisfy those who prefer email as a contact medium.
More to follow next week.
Regards,
Paul Benfield
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