Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell, Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. The design challenge was: How do we come up with concrete tools, frameworks and methods for … [Read more...]
A Guide to Evaluating Networks
Note from Beth:I met Madeleine Taylor back in 2009 while I was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. This was fairly early in the Foundation's exploration of networks and Madeleine came in to discuss her approach to evaluating networks. We draw a lot of network depictions on napkins and had an amazing conversation. I captured it in this blog post. Fast forward five years, Madeleine has published a new guide on evaluating networks. She kindly wrote this guest post … [Read more...]
How Do World Leaders Use Twitter? New Findings from Annual Twiplomacy Study
Twiplomacy aims to identify the extent to which world leaders use Twitter and how they connect on the social network. The research is conducted annually by Burson-Marsteller and I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of their study released today. They analyzed 645 government accounts in 161 countries. Only 32 countries, mainly in Africa and Asia-Pacific, do not have any Twitter presence. The study also revealed that more than 83 percent of all United Nations (UN) governments have a … [Read more...]
The Next Generation of Networked Social Change: Embracing the Sharing Economy
One of the key priorities of the #sharingeconomy #2014SHARE @peers @SOCAPmarkets pic.twitter.com/yzOYcIclm8 — Meal Sharing (@MealSharing) May 13, 2014 Earlier this week, a mixed crowd of entrepreneurs, investors, start ups, nonprofits, social activists, and others came together for the inaugural conference on Catalyzing the Sharing Economy defined as the use of networked, mobile, information technology to share goods and services. Think AirBNB and Uber, but it is much more than that. It is … [Read more...]
Techniques and Tools: How To Visualize Your Network
Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. What I really enjoy about events that Aspiration convenes is that they allow the time and depth for practitioners to share knowledge and strengthen connections. The participants are the content - and the design of getting participants into small group discussions where we can discuss topics related to our work that we are passionate about and want to explore and … [Read more...]
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