Multi Networking

One of the challenges the Internet is presenting is that the number of communities a person can participate in is constantly growing. The time to participate, and write blogs, is not.

Thus, I work from two strategies:

a) I seek out forums like this, with people who have a shared interest, and I set up a profile and introduce myself.

b) I point people to my primary web site at http://www.tutormentorconnection.org and blog at http://tutormentor.blogspot.com and to a conference I host in Chicago every six months, at http://www.tutormentorconference.org. On these sites I can express complex goals, using maps, drawings, links to other sites, and links to forums like this.

Thus, while I spend most of the time I have updating the content on my site, and doing the work that is required to help volunteers and youth connect in well organized tutor/mentor programs, my networking strategy is constantly reaching out to people who might help me, or who might borrow my ideas for their own leadership in their own community.

I encourage you to visit the http://tutormentor.blogspot.com pages and click the tag for maps. You'll see that I try to visualize ideas, and use real maps with a goal that others will use these maps to support the distribution of needed resources (volunteers, dollars, technology, etc.) into all of the high poverty neighborhoods of a big city like Chicago so that each child has access to a quality program and a network of adult tutors/mentors.

I hope you'll browse these sites and introduce yourself here or in these other spaces.

Dan Bassill Tutor/Mentor Connection
Cabrini Connections