In Whose Story Is This? (A Hero Is a Disaster, 2019), Rebecca Solnit reminds us of Ursula Le Guin’s proposal of “the bottle as hero.” By this Le Guin means…
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Learning to Breathe in the Network Era
The networked workplace is the new reality. It’s always on and globally connected. This is where all organizations are going, at different speeds and in a variety of ways. Some…
Continue ReadingFAC Net is Changing Fire Adaptation Work: Highlights from our Evaluation
Editor’s note:This blog is focused on sharing stories and information about living with fire. Occasionally, we also publish content related to social-change networks: the “how” in our approach to fire…
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Virtual Meeting Role Cards
Virtual meetings and events are common place by now. Technology like Zoom and the persisting globalization make effective virtual meetings a must. Since January 2019 I am co-hosting the monthly network weaver…
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Appreciating the Complexity of Human Ecosystems
Networks are made of individuals. Each person is a complex system where we can’t control nor truly predict their behavior, so combining them to form a network can make things…
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Organizations as Communities
* * *Many people have asked how their network can function when organizations remain in their traditional hierarchical structures. Sahana’s post explains how organizations, especially those in networks, need to…
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Navigating Uncertainty to Gain the Real Value of Collaboration
PART 1Investing in CollaborationA client recently called us her “network therapists.” She works for a foundation and was helping launch a network. The foundation saw that if organizations in a…
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Collaborative Projects
This Collaborative Projects Survey can be used to help collaborative work or learning projects increase their awareness of their strengths and challenges and enable them to see the skills that…
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Creating a movement of people connecting people for systems change
We are now reaching 10,000 people directly through our weekly newsletter, June’s LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, and the Network Weaving Facebook group. That’s great news!But many many more people around…
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Network Weaver Job Description
Many networks are hiring network weavers and/or network coordinators or managers. I pulled together two excellent examples of job descriptions, which are detailed below. You can also access them through…
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