Published by Angus on 17 Feb 2010
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You can gain great insights by viewing your work as part of a network. Here’s a simple exercise that can get you started developing the new mindset. It’s an adaptation of work from June Holley and The Monitor Institute. We think you’ll find it useful. › Continue reading… |
Published by Angus on 09 Feb 2010
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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… |
Published by Angus on 21 Sep 2009
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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… |
Published by Angus on 09 Sep 2009
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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… |
Published by Angus on 08 Sep 2009
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All communities can be summed up as people who know each other and do things together. As a general rule, know more people in their community, both they and their communities are more productive. So how do we go about increasing those connections between people? Increasingly, community leaders are turning to ‘Network Weavers’. › Continue reading… |
Published by Angus on 28 May 2009
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Looking at your membership as a network map can help you build a sense of community, improve collaboration, and generate ‘eye-candy’ for your donors. Here we share some network basics and a cheap do-it-yourself mapping tool. › Continue reading… |
