Making the Most of Online Events
The past few years have found numerous new opportunities to follow and sometimes engage with conferences and more informal conversations around the world online. In any given week - from [...]
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Sep 2013
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Oct 2012
Are We Readying Ourselves for Significant Change?
It strikes me that we are going through some of the significant change in civil society since I entered the profession 30 years ago . In the past few years [...]
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Apr 2012
As Time Goes By
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the passage of time. What does it mean and how do we mark it? I like to celebrate & commemorate anniversary dates of [...]
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Mar 2012
Videoconferencing Options for Multinational Working Groups
Perhaps like many of you, I work with a number of multinational Boards and other working groups. Historically they have either met in person, or via conference call. Recently I [...]
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Dec 2011
Back to the Future
[Note: I was asked by the creative folks behind WhyDev in Australia to draft a guest post that would reflect some on changes that I have seen in the international [...]
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Oct 2011
We are 7 Billion – what’s next?
Earlier this year I wrote about ‘awareness raising campaigns'. Although the 7 Billionth Person mark is not an awareness raising campaign per se, it has many of the same characteristics. [...]
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Jun 2011
Impact without Boundaries
As we’ve been working to bring about significant social change, alleviate poverty, and face other challenges over the past few decades, we’ve separated ourselves into silos. We refer to: Non-governmental [...]
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Apr 2011
Contests
I often have this gut instinct not to like ‘contests’ or lists of “Best or Top (fill in the number)”. I know this is not a popular view. I also [...]
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Apr 2011
Global Health: What We're Learning
This past weekend I participated in the Global Health & Innovation conference sponsored by Unite for Site and hosted by Yale University. The conference discussions were for me a ‘check’ [...]
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Nov 2010
Thanksgiving and EpicThanks
Thursday is Thanksgiving in the U.S. With Christmas Day and New Years it is one of only three days when almost all commercial and governmental operations are closed. I especially [...]