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* Most of the initial teambuilding activities on Teampedia were inspired by activities used at [http://www.cityyear.org City Year] (the nation's largest [http://www.americorps.org AmeriCorps] program). | * Most of the initial teambuilding activities on Teampedia were inspired by activities used at [http://www.cityyear.org City Year] (the nation's largest [http://www.americorps.org AmeriCorps] program). | ||
Revision as of 06:23, 17 October 2006
Mission
The mission of Teampedia is to become the world's largest collection of resources (e.g. warmups, icebreakers, and other group facilitation and training activities) to facilitate teamwork, teambuilding, and community.
Goals
- To collaboratively develop, share and archive resources for team leaders, team members, consultants, and facilitators
- To support those working to promote deeper understanding, improve communication, increase enjoyment, build trust, resolve conflicts, and generally create more efficient, fun, effective, creative, harmonious, inclusive, collaborative, and enjoyable relationships
- To help prevent re-invention of the wheel and loss of data in generational transfers
- To value every person's unique and individual contributions
- To harness the power of teamwork and technology to generate and refine collective knowledge
- To generate enough revenue for this website to be self-sustaining (including hosting and development costs)
- To respect copyright and intellectual property rights
- To bring people together
History
- Teampedia was founded in March 2006.
- Although Teampedia has no direct affiliation with Wikipedia - the free online encylopedia or the WikiMedia Foundation, this website was heavily inspired by these projects.
- Most of the initial teambuilding activities on Teampedia were inspired by activities used at City Year (the nation's largest AmeriCorps program).
