The first Global JAM on Online Communities for Social Innovation will take place on July 18-19. A JAM is an online discussion that is time limited, asynchronous, moderated, and subsequently analysed.

Online communities are changing the work people do and how they do it. They are creating new avenues for learning and innovating. They drive new models of leadership.

Today’s technologies while plentiful are not inventoried, and overall not adequate for the needs of the social sector. The goal of this JAM is to help the sector use online community tools more effectively and to help technologists to build more appropriate tools. Through this discussion we hope to create a shared vision of our collective future for online communities for social change and innovation.

Participants will include leaders of nonprofit, NGO, public sector and grant making organisations, researchers and academics, technologists, and consultants from around the world. All use or plan to use online communities for social innovation.

The “Price of Admission” is completing the short survey at http://tinyurl.com/36cqk7 by July 15.