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Featured resource practitioners are an important part of creating a successful online dialogue!  The featured resource practitioners together help to lead each online dialogue by making a commitment to add comments to the dialogue each day.  The featured resource practitioners often have some experience or knowledge of the topic being discussed in the dialogue. 

Are you interested in joining our growing network of over 300 dialogue featured resource practitioners?  Please read the information below to learn about what commitment and expectations for participants.

Let's start with a reminder of the objectives of each dialogue.  We expect that each featured resource practitioners (and other dialogue participants) will:

1. Share: Participants will share their own approaches (“tactics”) and tools used in their own work so that others may learn.
2. Learn: Participants will learn new approaches (“tactics”) and new tools to apply to their work.
3. Build a network: Participants will meet new people doing similar work that they can someday contact as a resource.

What would the dialogue process require from you?

If you agree to participate in a Tactical Dialogue as a featured resource practitioner (and we hope that you do!), these are the steps that are required from you:

1.  Join the New Tactics Online Community (on our website)

The first step in the dialogue participation process: Join the New Tactics on-line community so you can post comments in any dialogue. Click on “Create new account” in the upper right-hand corner of your computer screen to join.

For help, see our FAQ on how to register - http://www.newtactics.org/en/node/1803

Please add a short bio (around 200 words) to the ‘biography’ on your user account, and upload an image to your account (under edit). 

2.    Commitment of “featured resource practitioners” to post comments

We ask our “featured resource practitioners” to make two posts per day during the dialogue dates. We generally encourage you to check-in on the dialogue twice a day - logging on to the New Tactics website in the morning and late afternoon or evening depending on your internet access situation. We also understand that sometimes logging in twice per day just isn’t possible – so we ask you to make both your comments at the same time. This level of participation results in at least fourteen comments over the course of the week. These can include your own new comment, adding a response to a comment made by another participant, adding a resource, or posing a question.

Team Participation: We also encourage organizations or agencies to join as a “team”. If you have a “team” of people interested, the “team” will also be responsible for at least two posts per day but you can arrange among yourselves how you decide to make these posts. This opportunity is fun, easy and gives a chance for a number of people to share their experiences.

Note: If you decide you are not interested in being one of the “featured resource practitioners” but would like to participate in the dialogue, we greatly welcome you to do so. All you need to do is join the New Tactics website as an on-line community member. 

3.  Conference call participation (optional)

New Tactics has also invited our featured resource practitioners to participate in a one-hour conference call just prior to the opening of the dialogue. We arrange a date and time, usually a day or two prior to the dialogue, that can best accommodate as many of our featured resource practitioners as possible. This call gives you an opportunity to “meet” the other resource people who are able to attend the call. We have always made an effort to include as many as possible – but with the vast time zone differences, we know this can sometimes be difficult to achieve. The feedback from our resource practitioners regarding their participation in this call has been extremely positive.

If you are interested in helping to lead one of our online dialogues by participating as a 'featured resource practitioner' please contact us!