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WiserLocal gathering in Delhi, India asks, “What is a green community?” Rich or poor, we all contribute to the impact on our environment. Facilitator Laura Burger sums up what was discussed. › Continue reading…

Company volunteerism is an up and coming way to grow the workplace. What’s in it for the companies? › Continue reading…

83 percent of small businesses said they plan to hire up to half of their workers as virtual workers in the next year.
With a social network of over 65,000 members from around the world and half the staff leaving across the world, WiserEarth has certainly learned a lot about working virtually. › Continue reading…

Eric Magnuson and Karen Uffelman presented a very engaging session today at #11ntc around the secrets of the Engagement Pyramid. How do you engage your community? How do you identify the people who are more closely attached to your mission? Those questions were answered today. › Continue reading…

If you think your nonprofit’s volunteering management strategy could stand a few brush-ups, you’re in the majority. In a study of over 2,000 nonprofits, just 17% were deemed strong/effective at volunteer management. In an engaging session yesterday at Nonprofit Day 2010, we learned some important ways volunteerism and service can be better leveraged by organizations. › Continue reading…

Chances are that your organization’s success is reliant on building and maintaining healthy inter-personal and inter-organizational networks. But do you have any idea whether they are ‘healthy’? Can you think of an effective way to improve them? Fortunately for us, The Monitor Institute has just released a helpful new tool: ‘The Healthy Network Diagnostic’. › Continue reading…

The folks over at The Monitor Institute have been working with The Packard Foundation to explore this question. Their conclusion? Don’t worry so much about the social media tools and instead realize that you are building a social network. To do that you need a ‘networked mindset’ characterized by ‘openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and distributed action’. We encourage you to read the full paper ‘Working Wikily 2.0′ but here is a summary of the more important points for people working in the social sector. › Continue reading…

We’ve written before about how you can view your community as a network. Here we use the ‘network lense’ to show how communities typically evolve and what specific actions you might want to take to get to the next stage. › Continue reading…