Frequently Asked Questions

Introduction:

The What's Gone Well Today? Collaborative Network is an independent online community of innovators and bright lights, interested in developing and improving ideas, initiatives and projects.

The Collaborative Network is designed to:

• help creatives gather insight, crowd source solutions and solve problems,
• share helpful resources that will further their projects or initiatives,
• and find their next meaningful conversations.

Use of the Network starts with a personal exploration and reflection and then provides the benefit of a wider community's input.

A further application: to focus the reader on a specific issue or concern in their life that would engage them in improving it in some way; the whole thing is a form of problem-solving, so the first question focuses us on the problem or opportunity, and all the other questions are designed to open up the mind for new ways of thinking, linking and creating.

The business application is to provide a customized environment for businesses and organizations' staff to reflect on specific questions related to their environment and operation. To crowd source solutions, gather insights of value to colleagues and management and solve problems.

Jeremy Rifkin, author of the Empathic Civilization wrote, “I am connected, therefore I exist.” The Collaborative Network is designed to help accelerate and deepen those opportunities. We use the phrase “What's Gone Well Today?” to highlight our focus on what's working in our experience and link the network to the growing community already sharing examples of What's Gone Well Today? on social media and in daily conversation. No matter what challenge we bring under the lens of the Network, we help uncover the gold, the next steps, the insights, and possibilities in an empathetic conversation.

• Why the name "What's Gone Well Today?"
• What is this about?
• Why should I want to do be involved?
• What do you want me to do?
• What happens next? How do I interact with others?
• Further sharing
• How to change your password
• How do I review and edit My Cards?

Why the name "What's Gone Well Today?"

We use the phrase "What's Gone Well Today?" to highlight our focus on what's working in our experience and link the Network to the growing community already sharing examples of What's Gone Well on social media and in daily conversation. No matter what challenge we bring under the lens of the Network, we help uncover the gold, the next steps, the insights, and possibilities in an empathetic conversation.

From the Appreciative Inquiry Handbook for Leaders of Change:

“One of the great scholars of leadership and management over the past century, Peter Drucker, has said that all of the world's greatest challenges are business opportunities. Since AI has become an established means for designing, transforming, and growing effective organizations, it is well suited to help address the more difficult issues and/or questions of our time. This is an important frontier for AI—to increasingly tackle the difficult questions that will require engaging stakeholders and parties with wildly opposing world views, mental models, learned values, and the like. The methods, tools, and insights in this Handbook enable the reader/learner to find the strengths (positive core) of organizations (particularly businesses) and to apply those strengths toward shaping business to be an agent for world benefit, toward eco-innovations, toward business as an agent of peace, toward business models to eradicate poverty, and so on.”

What is this about?

Having the opportunity to change your success in business, personal life and community life by thinking about questions in a new way.

Great open ended questions can transform your conversations, a relationship, your organization and your experience.

Finding the resources, the connections, the next conversation you want to have.

This site has 19 themes or metaphors, each with important questions, designed to help people reflect and find new meaning in their experiences. The questions on each card can also be used to allow fresher, deeper, faster conversations.

Why should I want to do be involved?

Your own benefit:
Reflecting on your own experience, or of that of others, can give you greater insight or clarity on how you may proceed, or revisit a situation.

Mining the answers provided by other users sheds light on our own issues or challenges.

The greater good:
Knowing that your experience and wisdom can help others is rewarding.

Business advantage:
Save time in your search for important connections and meaningful conversations.

Improve productivity and lessen stress and enhance collaboration. Learn from other inspiritors on a need to know basis.

Identifying talent.

Community building:
Find out how others feel and think on issues of interest to you.

What do you want me to do?

1. Sign Up with a username - The email address asked for in registration will not be shared by us. It will allow you to receive private messages from those who wish to follow up with you about an idea you've posted. Your real name will also not be shared.
2. Browse the card icons and click on one that engages you, or hover over the icons to see the titles and click on one that inspires you. Note: An alternative way of choosing a card is to enter a keyword under "Search Cards" to peruse cards and questions where that keyword appears.
3. Read through the card's "Description" and the "Make It Work" and "Help?" tabs to get your mind in a good space for answering.
4. Think about an issue, concern, problem, hope, experience, or plan in your life in relation to the card's theme and share what you're thinking about in the first field provided.
5. With your issue in mind, select one or more of the questions on the card to respond to. Then save your answers.
6. Observe what happens as you answer; sometimes, simply answering these questions can provoke new lines of thinking and awareness in relation to your concerns. But this is just the beginning! The card you filled out is now awaiting input from others. Who knows what other brilliant, creative minds out there might have to offer you! And would you also like to offer others the benefit of your experiences, insights and unique perspectives? We hope so! Now close the card and return to our home page to continue on…

What happens next? How do I interact with others?

1. The recent activity conversation bubbles allow you to see what people are talking about. If you mouse over a box you allow more time to read the conversation posting. The best feature of that is that you can click on the text bubbles and interact directly from there.
2. If you're interested in reading and commenting on other people's responses to questions, choose "Search Answers".
3. Enter any keyword to find questions that have been responded to, or to find other people's answers, containing that keyword. Note: You may also copy, paste and search on entire questions from the cards.
4. The search results will show other people's answers to those questions and their discussions of those themes.
5. Click on the card icon beside any answers to see how that particular person answered all the related questions on the card.
6. Inspired? Intrigued? Have something to offer? Now you can choose to Message that person directly with your thoughts, or answer the same questions yourself by clicking on "answer your own."

Further sharing

1. When you see a card, its questions or someone's responses that you'd like to share with a friend, or your Facebook or Twitter community you can click the Share button on the upper left of the screen and select which type of sharing you'd like to use.
2. Check your inbox or come back later and search to see how other people have responded to your questions and comments. If you receive an email with a link to a Collaborative Network card you will be able to read the card, but to respond to the card you will need to sign in. Welcome to the next wave in deepening anonymous dialogues and crowd-sourced brainstorming!

How do I change my password?

1. Click on Sign In
   
2. Enter your email address to have your new password sent to you.
   
3. To change your password, click on your login name and update your profile

How do I review and edit My Cards

1. When you are signed in, you can click on My Cards found in the top-right corner of the web page to reveal the My Cards view.
2. While in the My Cards view, you can scroll through the list of all cards which you have responded to. Click on any card icon to view your answers for that card.
3. While viewing the answers for one of your cards, you can edit your answers and click on the Update button to save your updated answers.
4. To remove an answer from a card, delete the text for your answer and click on the Update button.
5. To remove a card intirely, clear the text for all the answers on your card and click the Update button.