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Book Review: The Nature of the Future

Reposted from Stanford Social Innovation Review The Nature of the Future: Dispatches From the Socialstructed World by Marina Gorbis Near the end of the South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) held this past March, I read this tweet: “Somewhere between Musk and Morozov is where the rest of us will find

Networks, metrics, levers, buzzwords

I'm nearing the end of my second to last multi-week road trip of 2008. Way too much travel... Need to go home... Can not think, let alone write, anymore... What follows are notes. * Way back in May I wrote about a paper on Working Wikily from the Packard

Network analysis as metric for grantmakers

[image from boxesandarrows] You hear a lot about networks these days. In nonprofit jargon no one even wants to be an organization anymore, everyone wants to be a network. I've been thinking on a smaller scale of how networks might matter to philanthropy and funders and do-ers. Assuming

Social Innovation Camp

A few weeks back I wrote about Kluster and the promise it might hold for rapid prototyping of social ideas. Here's a better example - Social Innovation Camp, London, April 4 - 6, 2008. For 72 hours techies and social innovators will work on the following six ideas:

Notes on nonprofit networks

Enough of my noodling about networks, I decided to take my questions, "What do nonprofit networks look like, how do they work, and what does this mean for philanthropy?" to the experts. So I asked these questions of the folks over at FAS.Research - who do very

Noodling about networks

What do politics, the Super Bowl, and philanthropy have to do with each other? Besides the fact that they are all on my mind, that is. They may have nothing else in common so I'll stick with why all of them are on my mind. One word. Networks.