Promoting Volunteerism for Peace and Development

32 . PROMOTING VOLUNTEERISM FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENTfor development, which will help usimprove future delivery.NetworkingNetworking with fellow UN Volunteers,your Field Units, as well as with your othernetworks and contacts, is an importantway to promote and advocatevolunteerism for peace and development.By sharing experiences with volunteerism,good practices can be identified and newideas and innovative approaches canemerge that will help make volunteerismfor development more effective. Of course,formal and informal meetings andpersonal conversations are not the onlyway to network; you could alsocommunicate the volunteerism fordevelopment message via blogs andonline forums and social networks.TEAMWORKSTeamworks is the globally available, secure Web 2.0 social networking platform thatenables UN organizations and their external partners to leverage the collective knowledgeof communities, individuals, programmes and projects. Teamworks was launched inNovember 2010 as a rich, full-featured platform. By using Teamworks you are joiningthousands of colleagues across the globe and across the United Nations family to shareknowledge and expertise and collaborate in ways never previously possible.For questions related to TEAMWORKS, please contact UNV focal points: Romain Desclousromain.desclous@unvolunteers.org (Former Volunteers), or Koye Adeboye aadeboye@unv.org (IYV+10and External Partners).