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…
Inclusive Networks Are Shaping Our Lives Right Now – Are They Governance?
Increasingly, networks that embrace diverse sectors and stakeholders are working together on shared issues and goals at all levels of society. They are having real impact on the ground all…
A Network Connector Story
First, An Introduction For a long time, we’ve trained our eyes to see things with edges and boundaries: organizations, countries, selves. Things with edges and boundaries feel manageable and solid. …
Network Strategies For Your Network
This video is about 20 minutes long and provides a short overview of network strategies. It was done for the Food Policy Network State Networks, who graciously agreed to let…
Network Strategies For Your Network
This 20 minute video provides a short overview of network strategies. The video emphasizes the importance of being part of networks of networks and of catalyzing self-organizing to move toward a more experimental, learning and viral space.
Communities of Practice for Network Weavers
The most effective way for people to build their skills as Network Weavers is to set up a Community of Practice –a group of people who share an interest in…
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…
What’s With The Network Weaving Thing?
I became a rabble-rousing, injustice-fighting, demonstrating, boycotting, marching, chanting, banner-carrying, strategizing, counter-culture activist early– by age 13 I’d faced my first line-up of National Guardsmen un-accompanied by any adults who…
Network Strategies For Your Network
The following video is about 20 minutes long and provides a short overview of network strategies. It was done for the Food Policy Network State Networks, who graciously agreed to…
Trust In Networks
Trust in networks is different than trust in organizations or coalitions where it is essential to spend time building trust among everyone because the relationships are likely to be long-term.However,…