Five ways to engage internationally in 2017
Widen your horizons - The divisions between national and global have blurred. One result of this is that it is even easier to find information that can be helpful in [...]
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Jan 2017
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Sep 2016
Exploring Social Innovation
Over the past decade the concept of innovation and social innovation have increased dramatically in usage and popularity. Google ‘innovation’ and over 500 million results come up; social innovation and [...]
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Aug 2016
From Youth Engagement to Youth Integration
In a previous blog post I wrote about the beginnings of the Civil Society and Testing Change (CS&TC) project. This post shares our experiences last month with our first [...]
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Jan 2016
What Comes Down from the Mountain? (The World Economic Forum 2016)
This week the World Economic Forum is meeting in the Swiss town of Davos. Many of us aren’t aware of this or if we are, don’t think anything will come [...]
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Nov 2015
DATA: #datarevolution #BigData #DataShift – what’s it all about?
As my work covers many different subject areas and communities, I spend a fair amount of time following trends in these different areas and how they impact my central focus [...]
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Jun 2015
Six tips for Communicating in a Global World
During some recent meetings and exchanges I noticed that periodically we can all use some reminders about how to stay inclusive and accessible when dealing with a global audience. Practicing [...]
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Feb 2015
Celebrating an Anniversary
Time flies and already I have finished five years of blogging. To celebrate I spent some time reviewing those 85+ posts, adding other ideas that came to mind from that [...]
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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 [...]