The biggest network divide -- the one I think makes philanthropy so much less effective than it could be -- is the divide between so-called ...

An example of a Viral Giving Network was provided in two earlier posts about the Oxfam Savings for Change Project and Keys to Transformation...

Thanks to the good folks at I-Open , especially Betsey Merkel, I'm sharing a 20 minute video on Network Weaving . This could be the firs...

In the next series of posts, I'll use examples to describe the 4 (maybe 5) sub-networks in a truly transformative philanthropy network. ...

In the 2 previous posts I've been talking about philanthropists as if they were synonymous with foundations. In this post I'd like t...

How can philanthropy assist in the formation of policy networks? I think the biggest mistake foundations make is that they often convene no...

My first suggestion to enhance philanthropy is for foundations or philanthropists to be trend and energy seekers . Rather than have lengthy ...

Escape the snowy North and come learn something new in sunny San Diego! Valdis Krebs will be presenting a 1/2 day workshop on practical app...

How can a foundation or charitable endeavor have the greatest impact? I think its through 4 basic strategies: 1. Funding 2-step viral strate...

When we want to understand how small changes can be leveraged into transformation, Donella Meadows has a great list of 12 leverage points s...

I like to explain self-organizing as the capacity for any individual or individuals to identify something they would like to do to make a co...

Most of the examples of self-organization that I find on the Internet are either personal or large-scale as in the Belarus flashmob example...

If you haven't read Here Comes Everybody , grab a copy and you will soon understand why everybody is talking about self-organizing these...

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 ...

Plexus Institute 2008 Summit Conferences Oct 3 2008 to Oct 5 2008 Starting 1pm October 3rd and ending 12noon October 5th Location: National ...

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...