Congratulations Mr. Community Organizer! You beat them with the strategy they mocked. Recently, I read an excellent book about Abe Lincoln ...

You know my old saying... " Connect on your similarities and profit from your differences " One of the best places to practice th...

"Respect. Empower. Include." Sounds like the mantra of a network weaver. Those three words come from the Obama campaign, from the ...

Why all the emphasis I've been placing on Web 2.0? Well, because the possibilities it represents are tantalizing: can new social techno...

We often talk about closing triangles and making introductions as a way to build resilient networks through network weaving . Here is an e...

Often people create network maps by surveying the "usual suspects" and then creating a map of the relationships among that set of ...

One of the aspects of being a Network Weaver that I find most intriguing is the Network Guardian role. Fairly early in our network building...

Twitter for educational purposes -A tutorial View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: school2.0 howto )

What made the Savings for Change project so successful? 1. Train and Support Animators or Network Weavers. The animators were regional peo...

The massiveness of poverty in the world is daunting – 3 billion people or 50% of the world population lives on less than $2.50 a day! Most ...

Two recent posts on the internet point out some exciting possibilities for non-profits and community organizations. They point to huge shif...

I'm spending so much time on Twitter because I feel it's such an important tool for Network Weavers. Someone asked me how to get st...

Thought I would pull together a few Regional Flavor Resources. Regional Flavor is a networking strategy that encourages communities to ideni...

If you follow any political blogs, you have experienced how vicious people can be to those who hold different perspectives. It doesn't h...

Last night Sarah Palin attacked community organizing. This morning I sent $$$ to the Obama campaign. Complex systems have indirect and unint...

Moving Networks to Action is all about finding others who are interested in the same thing you are. But if you are going to be transformativ...

As Network Weavers, we need to learn a lot about collaboration and how to support it. Here are two good papers on collaboration. Building a ...

One of the roles of Network Weavers is to help people identify opportunities and self-organize collaborative projects. But how do we use Web...

When you know the net you can quickly get to the information or resources you need in your local community. So, the statements below about ...

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One of my favorite people to learn from these days is Mike Wesch . He is a professor at Kansas State University who is exploring the use of...

One of the things the Internet enables us to do is to connect people to under utilized resources. My favorite example is Fruit maps. The fir...

Okay, so how do Network Weavers use Twitter to enhance not just their personal networks but community or common interest networks? I starte...

Actually, you can follow all three of us -- Jack , June and Valdis -- on Twitter! Twitter is a micro-blogging platform -- one and two s...

I'm exploring Twitter as a Network Weaver tool for building relationships. The Twitterers I most admire offer a combination of personal...

The Plexus Institute has a self-organized group that is reading the book Panarchy edited by Lance Gunderson and C.S.Holling. You can dowl...

Nice new site for networking efforts in Maine. Includes case studies of several networks--what I call big "N" networks to emphasi...

It is amazing how many of our current problems come down to the realization that it's the network, the connectivity, that matters. In m...

The New York Times publishes an interesting story about " investigative journalists for hire ". Via the concept of crowdfunding ,...

Stay tuned for our 9 months of workshops on network weaving, sponsored by E4S.

Here is an amazing report on the applications of network mapping, analysis and weaving to assist and facilitate human rights work. It is ...

In going through some my old articles, I ran across a tribute to my late friend and colleague, Bob Stambaugh. He was a network weaver in the...

In addition to my blogging here, I am starting a new blog which will expand beyond "network weaving". The new blog is named: TNT ...

You don't need network mapping software to get groups started with Social Network Analysis. All you need is some large chart paper, a fe...

Last week I was in Barbados, one of the many island jewels scatted throughout the azure waters of the Caribbean. The United Nations has hire...

One of the pleasures of selling social network analysis software and services is seeing what clients do with the new knowledge and tools we ...

One of the more interesting questions I get about social networks is the question of whether we find networks where everyone shares common v...

I continue to be amazed at the common confusion of network building with networking. The difference is a significant one. I netbuilding, our...

Valdis' brilliant reminders here about the capacity for resilience through net diversity remind me of a point I made in " Accidenta...

Birds of a feather flock together... so do entrepreneurs. Ed Morrison found some interesting research that examines the dense clustering of...

In today's NY Times , NYU's graduate program's new ad headline/tagline: "I'm earning my Master's, and joining a pow...

I am continuously innovating in the development of questions that can evoke netawareness (awareness of your own networks) without necessaril...

I think Jack is bringing up a really key point when he discusses positional value! A Network Weaver needs to be aware of where he or she is ...

Early on in this blog, I offered a list of characteristcs of network weavers. This list has now been expanded into the Network Weaver Checkl...

In my work with social network development, we're talking about 3 kinds of value people bring to their networks, that shape the quality ...

In his July 25th post , Valdis mentioned the social network mapping of obesity networks in The New England Journal of Medicine paper by Nic...

"So important are these social skills that it is females with the best social networks, not those most senior in the hierarchy, who lea...

This is a symbolic progression of generative relationships in part of a network. I like to use it to sharpen people's sense making about...

There is an etiquette to connecting with people we don't know (people in our 2nd and 3rd circles). In conversation with June and Valdis,...

Breakfast conversation today with two amazing women who are innovating in building and connecting intentional communities in Africa and her...

You may have seen the recent stories in the New York Times that described the wonderful successes of the Pittsburgh Veterans Administration...

72 Look at the history of any culture or nation, and find that whole groups and communities can be collectively conscious or unaware. And it...

This is my prodigal return to the NetWeaving blog, post promise to Valdis and June in our agreement to step up our engagement here. The only...

Steve "Habib" Rose Nov. 12, 1957 - Sept. 26, 2007 Habib , our friend and colleague, passed away yesterday. He was the biggest fan ...

Innovation happens at the intersection... of two or more different, yet similar, groups. Where... one technology meets another one discipli...