CF Barcelona 2009 - Day III

Day III went very well and added more the overal learning process of the team members. Our day started with our daily openning circle with some energizers, reviews and reflection on Day II.
After presenting some of Day II discussions results we were splitted into groups to discuss further the telecentre.org portal's functions and features. The discussion was quite tough and heated at times, which was very telling that the team took it very seriously.

A second key activity of the day was the Talk Show, where 4 older CFs were interviewed in a talk show style session. Eiko, Vignesh, Leonce, and myself-Karim spoke about their experience with blogging, facilitating content and sharing with the telecentre extended community. It was a good discussion that covered from Latin America, East Asia, West Africa, and Middle East and North Africa MENA and the specific experiences in each regiion. A group photo was taken after that session thankfully by Esplai's photographer.

A small energizer made a good transition between this and the session that telecentre.org social investor; Microsoft shared with us their inputs, ideas and new products that contribute to community building. Melissa from Munich Microsoft Community Affiars office joined us in the meeting while Tim and Andy joined us by tleconference from Seatle. Technology helped the most t run a smooth presentation on Community Builder plateform that Microsoft celebrate as one comprehensive plateform that serve users and communities with different functions such as email, chat, spaces, among others. A good discussion took place too with Microsoft colleagues in Seatle and in the meeting space.

The concluded with an interesting short cultural exchange of music where participants shared stories behind specific songs and specific characteristics of music and culture from our countries. Dinner was our last activity tonight and we all ran to rooms for rest after a very interesting and productive day.

Looking forward to tomorow as much as I am looking forward to stop typing now and close my portable computer and put it on the floor next to bed and close my eyes for a good deep sleep, hopefully.

Karim