Get stuck in

This morning I emailed a whole bunch of people who had expressed interest in the PM Partner project inviting them to get stuck in.

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I'm writing to you because you expressed interest in the IDeA's project on performance management in partnership, called PM Partner. The PM Partner project goes live today and I hope you'll take the opportunity to participate. I'm really excited about this project - this collaborative approach is a new way of sharing knowledge. A feature on the project will be published on IDeA Knowledge today.

How it works:
If you've taken part in one of the online conferences, then it works quite a lot like that. We'll facilitate contributions from across the public, private and voluntary sector bringing together learning on better performance management in partnerships. Each week we'll introduce a couple of new topics to focus on - and we'll facilitate each of these topics for two weeks. Don't worry if you miss a topic - because they'll be left on the site for the duration of the 10 week project - so there's still a chance to contribute. But by focusing on topics we can ensure that more people will be able to look at and reflect on your contribution or burning question. You'll always be able to find the current topic(s) from the home page and our suggested list of future topics.

But this isn't just a discussion forum. It's a collaborative website. You can add material, upload your own tools, or create links to your own organisation's website (or someone else's). If you're new to the process, check out our Getting Started page. That has a few simple tips for the site and links to further information including some simple ground rules for using the site. For more details on the project check out this page.

Each week either Adrian Barker or I will email you with the new topic and a bit of introduction, and as the project progresses, we'll highlight the contributions that have been made or point you to questions colleagues have posed that perhaps you can answer. You can also keep up with the project through this blog: www.ideapolicy.blogspot.com

What's on this week?
This week we're starting with an overview of performance management in partnership, assessing your partnership's performance management, and Partnership Killers: a list of key barriers to effective partnerships - as the project progresses we want to build up a resource about how to address them. Check them out and please share with us your own experiences or partnership assessment tools (or let us know about one you've used).

How to contribute:
You can visit the PM Partner site and comment on any page without registering - in that sense it works just like a discussion forum. But to get full credit for contributions or to add your own material - you need to be registered on the PM Partner site. But it's easy. Simply visit the registration page and select your own user name and password. The registration process also allows you to receive updates from the site - it's automatically set to "Never", but I would suggest that you change that to reflect how involved you want to be (you can change it later). I have mine set to every 2 hours, but you might want daily or at least weekly. You won't get any emails if nothing has changed on the site.

Pass it on:
This project will work best if we have the widest possible involvement from across local government, health, criminal justice and the private and voluntary sectors. This way we can get to grips with the cross-sector concerns, language and technical issues on performance management in partnerships. So please forward this email on to any of your partner colleagues who might be interested.

We're looking forward to working with you.

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