A Multi-Year Program Review
Although the key to significant change is often in the lessons of long-term implementation, we don’t see these multi-year studies as often as would be useful. Recently the Helping Babies [...]
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Aug 2015
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Aug 2015
Tips for conducting hybrid meetings
I am convinced that going forward we will be organizing more online meetings as well as those that integrate both online and offline attendees. Even though, as humans, we will [...]
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May 2015
Observations on a design oriented workshop
This week I helped facilitate the work of a diverse group exploring what resources could be created for people with disabilities, whatever their disability might be and wherever they might [...]
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Apr 2015
Exploring the Social Lab Framework
About a year ago I discovered the work of Zaid Hassan around Social Labs through social media and a new book he wrote The Social Labs Revolution about designing and [...]
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Jan 2015
Transitioning to a New Year
2014 provided some significant global events and momentum for positive change that we can build on in the new year. Some of these include: • Sustaining emergent movements: 2014 included [...]
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Nov 2014
Learning from Wherever it May Come
In September (Making the Most of Online Events) and November 2013 (Asking the Tough Questions) I participated in a number of conferences and workshops through livestreaming and other online opportunities. [...]
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Nov 2014
A new round of UN Summits
Every now and then I get ‘historically reflective’. A few years ago I did a post on “Back to the Future” (which also has some great discussion in the comments [...]
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Oct 2014
Tools and methods for co-creation in workshops
This post is cross-posted from DIYToolkit where it appeared as a guest post. Earlier this year I worked with Ci2iGlobal, a global group of social entrepreneurs and NGO practitioners, to [...]
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Sep 2014
Making Connections
This week three of the different networks I am part of held symposium/workshops/conferences and a common theme was noticeable in my Twitter stream – the importance of identifying good ideas [...]
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Jul 2014
Inspirational People and Inspirational Teams
I wrote a blog post a few years ago on what I believe makes an inspirational person. Groups of people working together in concert can also make inspirational teams. A [...]