Published by Angus on 17 May 2011
Planning for Emergence: Bottom Up + Top Down Strategies for Network Impact
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Diana Scearce of The Monitor Institute shares her thoughts on designing networks for meaningful impact. › Continue reading… |
Published by Working Wikily on 05 Nov 2009
Networks for social impact: making the case
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Over the past 6 months, I’ve had the pleasure of facilitating a community of practice for funders supporting networks. The question that keeps coming up is: how to make the case that working through and investing in networks will produce the intended social impact? At the same time, the belief in network impact is becoming more widespread–-the potential for organizing without organizations, the power of developing a strategic understanding of webs of relationships, and the promise of openly sharing both data and new knowledge. There is more and more experimentation with network models for social impact. › Continue reading… |
Published by Angus on 09 Sep 2009
What network stage is your community?
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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
How to weave a tighter community
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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… |
