How does change happen? I saw a book in the airport about microtrends and how they give a glimpse of the possible future. Microtrends are new behaviors, actions or directions…
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How to Set Up an Innovation Fund
Innovation funds (also called seed funds or activation funds) are small regranting funds used to jump start innovation, collaboration and self-organizing in networks. They have proven to be one of…
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A Network Connector Story
Sometimes a story can convey meaning better than a lecture. This week’s free resource is a story from the early days of the Appalachian Center for Economic Network’s (ACEnet) Kitchen…
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Sociocracy: Why, What and Who?
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of Many Voices One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy by Ted J Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez Sociocracy is a set of tools and principles that ensure shared power….
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Trust: Foundation of Effective Networks
This article is a chapter from the Network Weaver Handbook with several worksheets you can use with your networks, projects and organizations. They go together nicely with the blog posts Trust…
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Flexible Formations for Networks
Thinking about co-design embedded within a network presents additional challenges. Ideally, a design team creates many spaces to engage in co-design – both online and in-person – that allow for…
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Network Governance
Network governance is the idea that decision-making that is currently lodged in representative bodies such as congress or city councils can be shifted into self-organizing networks. This shift has the…
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Network Weaver Free Resources Package
Each week, we add a new free item to our store. This week we are offering: Network Weaver FREE RESOURCES PACKAGE. ALL of the free resources currently available at the Network Weaver Resource Page in one complete…
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Systems Thinking and Networks
Last fall, I heard about an online educational portal called Plus Acumen, which advertises itself as the “world’s school for social change” and offers several free classes. Many of their…
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Trust in Networks is Fundamental to Social Change
Trust is a core principle – in Chaos Theory, we’d call trust within human systems a powerful ‘Strange Attractor.’ The purpose of a Change Network is to amplify the flow of knowledge, information, resources, skills, and…
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