A series of 'How-To Guides' is being developed for DoView users. The first one answers the question 'What's a DoView outcomes (results) model and why should I use one? More will follow.
What's a DoView outcomes (results) model and why should I use one? (A DoView How-To Guide)
Introduction
A DoView outcomes model is the new, more effective way of doing all of our thinking and planning about our projects, organizations, collaborations or coalitions. In the past, if we were planning a project, doing organizational planning, or working on a collaboration amongst multiple projects or organizations, we would have a number of separate jobs we would need to do. These would include: strategic planning, working out our priorities, identifying gaps and overlaps in our activities (or projects), working out who should be doing what, tracking how we're progressing, thinking about how we should evaluate what we're doing, thinking about how to discuss what we're accountable for with our funders, and trying to quickly explain what we're trying to do to our busy and overloaded stakeholders. …
Doing Strategic Planning Better: Using a DoView Visual Strategic Plan (a DoView How-To Guide)
Introduction
Traditionally, strategic planning has been done by holding a series of planning meetings followed by someone from the meeting producing a written multi-page 'text-and-table' strategic plan. However, those who write such plans often suspect that, in spite of all their hard work, very few people ever actually read the written plan. Written strategic plans tend to be seen as somewhat inaccessible documents. The new approach to strategic planning is to use a DoView visual strategic plan at all stages of the strategic planning process. …
Publishing DoView models on the web using Dropbox
You can now publish your DoView web age models (created in DoView) onto the web using a third party service called Dropbox. If you have Dropbox installed you can publish your DoView webpage model in a matter of minutes. If you don't have Dropbox, instal it now (its free) and start publishing your DoView webpage models.
