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There are many ways to participate in KM4Dev -- and many ways to contribute.  Each member finds their way, but the following is provided as a way to imagine your pathway.  What would work for you?

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|+Steps in life cycle of a KM4Dev community member (a mostly Dgroup-centric view)
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|Step||Activity / question / challenge
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|Follow a discussion||How does discussion match my experience? Why is this discussion useful to other people?
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|Ask '''your''' question||
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|Answer a question||What have you seen work (or not) in your projects or country?
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|Spot great resources and share them||Share via Twitter, Dgroups, etc.
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|Update your profile on KM4D and D-Groups||Add a photograph, your location and other details on your profile
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|Find out which members have the same interests as you, or live near you||Identify connections in your local area or organizations that are “nearby” so you could meet up face to face.
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|Summarize a discussion thread on the wiki||Request a wiki account. watch the video explaining how to do a summary; gather emails; summarize the main points; let people know what you've done.
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|be the moderator for a month (watch what's going on)||
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|Organize a focused conversation||
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|Help integrate KM4Dev activity and information||Notice activity on one platform that may not be visible on one of the others (Dgroups discussion vs. Ning vs. Wiki) and create links between the platforms.
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|Organize / Attend a local f2f meet-up (lunch or coffee)||Impetus for this could come as part of a month of local KM4D f2f meets ups around the world to get it started.
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|Attend a f2f meeting||
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|Help organize (a part of) the f2f meeting||
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|Develop and share community knowledge||Write a piece for the KM4Dev Journal -- based on your own work, KM4Dev activities or discussions or ... ?
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|join the leadership team||
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|Invent another way to contribute||
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Additional practices:
* Write about your work on a blog or on Twitter and register it here on this Wiki
* Download a form that states that you are requesting an hour a week for three months to help KM4Dev; take it to your boss have him sign it and publish it on the KM4Dev wiki.
[[Category:KM4DevFutures]]