SWConnect asset mapping and network relationship system described.

1. Introducing… SWConnect.org Regional web portal based on Open Source Drupal Software Platform

2. Mapping Our Regional Assets

3. Emergency Support Volunteer/ Intern 2-1-1 Inclusion

4. CMap – Mapping Program/Service Relationships

5. Quick reference page with your own free account . Easily update your own information.

6. Mapping how things work… Guiding principle Design system architecture to accommodate the complexity of how things actually are… .. then simplify and present in context. This approach engages our natural human capacity to understand via pattern and relationship.

7. Answer our Key Questions… Simplifying and presenting In Context.

8. Discovery via topical areas of interest…

9. Provide Support For Collaborative Networks

10. Support for Collaborative Networks via… Organic Groups

11. We can use a taxonomy (categorization scheme) to see how organizations, programs, services, products, and information in our Region… Relate

12. Taxonomy and folksonomy tagging provides us with a simple way to organize and browse relationships.

13. …and gives us some fun ways to see what’s important to us.

14. Gives us the opportunity…to see how we are connected

15. And lets us see... where things are.

16. What can we imagine and do together? “The urge to form partnerships, to link up in collaborative arrangements, is perhaps the oldest, strongest and most fundamental force in nature. There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is dependent on other forms. —Lewis Thomas