In training with a few hundred health care staff this week focused on relationship building, we had them closing triangles, after a few minu...

The work we do with organizations and communities introduces many of them for the first time to the value of social capital. It is a whole n...

Maybe it was because of my lens, but I noticed that trust was one of the threads running through the talks and panel in yesterday's KM c...

June, Valdis, and I participated in a day long Cleveland KM cluster conference yesterday on social and value networks and tools. It was a st...

I’m still trying to figure out what I loved about Ghana. Unlike most trips, I came back from there energized and feeling nurtured, not drai...

I just posted some things I have written on networks and/or entrepreneurship on my web page: www.networkweaving.com/june.html The first one ...

Just wanted to let people know that they can learn more about Smart Networks and Network Weaving at a workshop in Cleveland on Friday May 19...

As I travel around the country--and now the world--I'm starting to see some very interesting and provocative economic shifts--part real,...

The more I observe and reflect on the quality of connections in community networks, the more interested I become in the question of how to a...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've been in Ghana working with a United Nations project that is bringing together West Africans to w...

I'm sitting with Valdis at Talkies who's been contacted for a project of marsupial mapping. I flinched until he explains a project a...

Network Weavers are individuals who take responsibility for creating healthy networks, what we call Smart Networks. Anyone can learn to be a...

Some places you go... you always meet someone you know. And even better, someone you should know, but don't yet! These places are magn...

We are seeing more and more interest in "regional economies" all over the world. One of the key players in regional economics are...

The first step in Network Weaving is mapping the existing networks in your organization/community/region. • What are our strengths? • What a...

E4S , one of the premier entrepreneurial learning communities in Ohio [if not nationally!], held their annual network building meeting at th...

Next week I'll be flying to Ghana to work on a United Nations project. They will be bringing together non-profit and government leaders ...

1 / Intracommunity assessment People within communities work together to create a common understanding of the opportunity landscapes. We’re...

This is a graphic we use to show our 3 circles of connections in our networks. Our 1st circle are people we know well. In our 2nd circle are...

Networks build through introductions and not all introductions are equal. They are distinguished by the quality of the introduction. If peop...

The Network Weaving experience of ACEnet is described in a white paper [PDF] by Valdis and June. The paper steps you through the network w...