From Wikipedia: Swarm describes a behaviour of an aggregate of animals of similar size and body orientation, often moving en masse in the...

Jack, Valdis and I had a wonderful lively discussion about networks and innovation diffusion a few weeks ago and I’d like to capture some of...

I posted a tweet on this today and June suggested I elaborate, so here are some seminal ideas on 5 basic personalities that show up and enga...

Inspired by my favorite Talking Heads song: " Once in a Lifetime ". We often wonder "how did I get here?" when we look a...

One of the most interesting developments in the social sciences is the new science of social networks. This is the growing body of knowledge...

First of a series of chats on leading edge ideas in regional economic development with Ed Morrison and Valdis Krebs. We look at how to find...

These are views from the rural economic development Summit June and I (Jack) facilitated last Friday. It was a great group and a fabulous t...

Recently Valdis appeared on WCPN - 90.3 FM, the Cleveland NPR radio station, on "The Sound of Ideas" with Dan Moulthrop . The pr...

Here is part 2:

key to understanding self-organizing is the concept of emergence. Here is a nice video (via Lisa Kimball) in two parts.

I'm really finding BFI Book Group quite delightful. First, it's a good use of Ning , a free customizable social networking site, as...

Saul Kaplan has set up an online book club on innovation. The first book we are reading and discussing is Steven Johnson's "The Inv...

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...