Teampedia:About

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 answer the age old question "why can't we all just get along?"
To harness the power of teamwork and technology to generate and refine collective knowledge
To generate enough money 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.
Teampedia was heavily inspired by Wikipedia - the free online encylopedia
Most of the initial teambuilding activities on Teampedia were inspired by activities used at City Year http://www.cityyear.org (the nations largest AmeriCorps program).