The CSP website has a range of powerful functions that can be harnessed in innovative ways to support the work of commissioners both on a strategic level and in work that they do on a day-to-day basis.
Currently, users are more concerned with the 'how' than the 'what'; how to use the tools rather than what they can do with the tools. We need to get past the trivialities of how to use the tools and get users thinking more creatively and intelligently about what they can do with the tools that they have ready at their fingertips.
This page provides a starter-for-ten on practical, specific ways in which the website's tools can become a part of the regular offline acitvities that commissioners are involved with. Please feel free to add to this page.
The aim is to merge commissioner's 'offline activities' with their 'online activities'.
- Showcase your expertise in Commissioning so others who may want to draw on your knowledge can get in touch
- Make important announcements to the community about events and appointments
- The system recommends discussions, documents, groups and contacts that would be of use to you in line with your role and commissioning interests
- View the activity in your network and boost those contacts by getting involved
- Fine people across the country working in the same area as you
- Contact people directly about a specialism you want to find out more about or ask them a question
- Build on your existing network of contacts by adding people to your network
- Keep an account of your daily commissioning activities
- Air your thoughts and idea and get a response from the commissioning community
- Give commissioners valuable insight into the 'softer' issues that effect day-to-day commissioning activities
- Write an article
- Have a journal as part of a group to document your activities and thoughts around that group's special interest area
- Share valuable and useful documents, presentations, and videos with the rest of the commissioning community
- Comment and rate documents, the most popular and higly rated ones are transferred over to the Resource Bank
- Provoke debate and thought in the commissioning community by publishing think-pieces and articles
- Pose a question to the entire commissioning community or to your group
- Send out a poll to guage the opinions and ideas of your peers
- Post up and idea and develop it using your network
- Document and continue offline discussions online
- Conduct an online meeting
- Support offline group activity by setting up your own online group
- Set up a private online space for sharing that nobody accept members approved by you can use
- Post up meeting materials and minutes and continue discussions online
- All members automatically feed into an email list that allows you to contact everyone in a group with one click
- Set up an RSS feed so you get instant notifications of group activity
- Receive group notifications of activity in your community of practice
- Use the information exchange as a document drop-in centre and online server and develop discussions arounf papers and presentations
- Set up private events and meetings only your members can have access to and collect their details and requirements using our online event management system
- Upload your FAQs and make them dynamic by allowing people to add their questions
- Develop tools and resources using the track changes and comments functions
- Use this tool to develop your CYPP and make it dynamic by getting others to interract with it
- Test out approaches to different issues by posting it up and inviting members or network contacts to comment and suggest improvements
- Create a permanent static page on the site for anyone to refer to
- Post up the terms of reference for your special interest group or community of practice
- Publish your CYPP as a page online
- Publish articles for your group
