Guest post by Scott Bechtler-Levin After spending a couple days with nearly 150 smart, network weavers at the GEO/ Monitor Institute “Growing Social Impact in a Networked World” conference (http://www.geofunders.org/networksconference.aspx), I am reminded of one of my favorite quotations: “The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know…” (Socrates, according to Plato) One of many ‘ah-has’ came early during the well facilitated conference. It was just an off-hand comment from June … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2011
The Power of Curation
Guest post by Paula Goldman The wisdom of crowds, the insanity of crowds. Mention the word “network” to most people and their reactions tend to sway between these two polar extremes. It’s either “crowdsourcing is the answer to everything” --or it’s a complaint that social networks like Facebook and Twitter are just “too full of chatter.” If I have one takeaway from the GEO/Monitor Group conference on Networks earlier this week, it’s about how crucial the curator is in determining the difference … [Read more...]
Evaluating Networks and their Effectiveness
Guest Post by Tom Kelly Lists. I am a list maker. To do. To followup. To call. And at a conference like Growing Social Impact in a Networked World (http://www.geofunders.org/networksconference.aspx), I made several lists--in my notebook, on my iPad, emails to myself, and on those very cool hexagonal Post-its. I will work through all of them over the next week or so but the list that will keep growing is the one of insights and new ideas I gained from hearing fellow participants share their … [Read more...]
Network Leadership: A Few Ingredients in the Secret Sauce
Guest post from Kathy Reich For a while I’ve been puzzling over what makes a good network leader. The traditional models of organizational leadership clearly don’t apply, but then, which models do? The Grantmakers Gathering on Networks provided a few a-ha moments for me about network leadership: The first leader or leaders in a network are like first responders at the scene of a crash—they’re in charge of making things happen until the structures get set up to fully address the situation. No … [Read more...]
Power and Control
Guest post from Marie Sauter Among many insights gleaned from this week’s conference on “Growing Social Impact in a Networked World” (http://www.geofunders.org/networksconference.aspx), one theme keeps recurring for me: the importance of grantmakers sharing power and control within broadly construed networks of collaborators in the quest for social change. During Domestic Violence (DV) Awareness Month, I’ve been reflecting on how concepts of power and control have shaped the dialog in the DV … [Read more...]
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