Many people are asked “Why networks?” or “When does it make sense to use a network approach?” This handout explains all and makes it easy for you to email to…
Continue ReadingNetwork-ing Does Not Equal Network WEAVING
Those of us who work with change networks could sometimes do a better job of clarifying the distinction between ‘networking’ and ‘network weaving’. Leaving that distinction un-articulated and merely implied…
Continue ReadingMoving (rapidly) to a Network World
I’m a network hunter. My idea of fun is to spend hours traveling through the web world, spying new networks and learning all I can about network development.From my vantage…
Continue ReadingBuilding Communities Through Network Weaving
In 2004, Valdis Krebs and I collaborated on an article that described the stages of network development and introduced the term network weaver. In 2005 an edited version of this…
Continue ReadingFoodshed team learns how to establish consent instead of consensus
In Propositions for Organizing with Complexity: Learnings from the Appalachian Foodshed Project (AFP), Nikki D’Adamo-Damery described nine propositions that emerged from the work of the AFP. Proposition #2 was: “Establish Consent instead of Consensus.” The…
Continue ReadingSystem Shifting Networks
Not all networks are the same! If you are interested in transforming systems so that they are good for everyone, then you are probably helping people co-create a System Shifting…
Continue ReadingWelcome to the Network Weaving Blog
There are over 1.4 million tax-exempt non-profits in the United States, many of them working on the hard-to-shift systemic problems of our society, such as racism, poverty, immigrant rights, access…
Continue ReadingFree Worksheets
We are now offering two network worksheets at no cost.The first is the Network Weaver Checklist, revised from the NW Handbook version and in an easy to print pdf format….
Continue ReadingA NETWORK OF NETWORKS
Editor’s note: I’ve become more and more convinced that networks are much more effective when they are also part of networks with other networks, where they can share information, learn,…
Continue ReadingStarting a Self-Organizing Learning Group to Write a Book
It’s bothered me for a long time that very few folks in the non-profit sector produce practical materials that others can easily adopt or adapt. I’m a prime example of…
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