I have created a Network Weaving List on Twitter. This is to follow those who focus on network weaving/building/organizing/mentoring/coach...

As the funding landscape shifts at the rate of the economy, many funders are rethinking, if not reinventing, the way they approach their mis...

In every network, people cluster by affiliations. These are affiliations based on shared transactions, ideologies, interests, adversaries, d...

The more we understand about networks, the more amazed we become at their immense and inscrutable power and elegance, starting with the fact...

Why is that we've arrived at the place where so many of people consider the term "dysfunctional non-profit board" as a redunda...

As more communities move toward a vision of local living networked economies, the whole conversation about the nature and value of competiti...

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 ...