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Book: The Network Weaver Handbook

Beth Kanter

My friend and colleague, June Holley , has written a much anticipated book, The Network Weaver Handbook. If you are interested in building networks or working as Networked Nonprofit, you need this book right now! To me, this creates the perfect book to help guide your practice of building and working within a network.

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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

Beth Kanter

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings.

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Book Review: Connecting to Change the World

Beth Kanter

Almost tend years ago, they co-wrote “Net Gains,” one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change. Whether it is a network of organizations or individuals, the handbook provides a wealth of theory and practice on build, manage, and fine tune a network. Network Types.

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Long Live Your Education Sessions: How To Repurpose, Reuse and Recoup Meeting Costs

Tom Morrison

The question for any association in this situation is, “how are you changing its delivery and purpose to engage your members in new learning styles?” Many associations have printed content, some in book format, a lot in electronic format just lying around. Let me give you an example of how this looks in the real world.

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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth Kanter

Note from Beth: The Mobilization Lab at Greenpeace recently commissioned and released this report, Beyond the First Click: How Today’s Volunteers Build the Power of Movements and NGOS. Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. About the Authors.

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Learning is the Work

Beth Kanter

What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade. Dave Gray : Dave Gray is a guru on the topics of design, innovation, culture and change. She’s written a book about this, “ The Social Learning Handbook.”

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Books like The Medici Effect , by Frans Johannson, and Where Good Ideas Come From , by Steven Johnson, confirm what weve long known: innovation in one field often occurs when an idea from another is associated into a new context.