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Why Does My Co-Worker Keep Turning Down My Social Overtures?
The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.14 May 2012 | 8:46 amI received the following e-mail from a reader: Hi Alexandra, my co-worker and I really seem to get along. I like spending time with her at lunch and when we travel. I thought it would be fun for her and her husband to get together with my boyfriend and me outside the office, so I asked her a few times if they wanted to grab dinner, a movie, etc. But every time, she’s come up with some excuse as to why she can’t do it, and some of them are pretty lame. Why is she rejecting me like this? My feelings are hurt. I feel your pain. Really, I do. I experienced the same situation… -
The human resources walled city
ZDNet | Collaboration 2.0 Blog RSS10 May 2012 | 2:16 amHR/HCM is historically the mature ’social’ center of businesses and can either lead digital transformation or be subsumed into a supporting collaborative role -
Infographic | The Evolution of Sharing and Communication
The Social Workplace28 Apr 2012 | 12:02 pmOriginal source: The Daily Infographic Communication is the process of conveying information. Almost all species have some sort of communication system. However, successful communication is the trait that has made humans the most successful species. This infographic shows a timescale of how communication has evolved over time. It’s hard to imagine communication long before the hustle and bustle of email and text messaging. Technological communication has grown exponentially, leaving snail mail to be a thing of the past. Facebook and Twitter is the most popular form of communication right… -
Attract Smarter Support Sooner and Savor Your Life More With Others
Moving From Me To We.com6 May 2012 | 4:15 pm“When you throw mud you get dirty,” Adlai Stephenson once remarked in response to a question about whether he would criticize his opponent who was launching vicious, personal attacks against him in a political campaign. And you lose ground. Yet many politicos say negative campaigning and ads are effective in attracting votes so they are forced to run them, and, in this run-up to the mid-term elections, those on-line and on-air attacks abound. Some are sleazy and real nasty. Watch, for example, Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer discuss the use of negative ads by both parties in a…
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Moving From Me To We.com
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Stay Sought-after by Honing Two Traits
13 May 2012 | 6:06 pm“We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action,” wrote Clay Shirky. “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up,” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. noted long ago. Yet to fully benefit from these insights one must be perceived as valuable. The more valuable you are perceived to be, the more frequently you’ll be invited to participate. How do we demonstrate value in this increasingly connected and complex world? By being widely-known and respected for having a: 1. Vital talent, in fact being one of the best at that… -
Attract Smarter Support Sooner and Savor Your Life More With Others
6 May 2012 | 4:15 pm“When you throw mud you get dirty,” Adlai Stephenson once remarked in response to a question about whether he would criticize his opponent who was launching vicious, personal attacks against him in a political campaign. And you lose ground. Yet many politicos say negative campaigning and ads are effective in attracting votes so they are forced to run them, and, in this run-up to the mid-term elections, those on-line and on-air attacks abound. Some are sleazy and real nasty. Watch, for example, Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer discuss the use of negative ads by both parties in a… -
Two Ways to Make Smarter Choices Next Time
8 Apr 2012 | 7:23 pm1. Don’t Get Anchored Down How would you answer these two questions? 1. Is the population of Turkey greater than 35 million? 2. What’s your best estimate of Turkey’s population? Actually the sequence of the questions contaminates your answer. If you are like most people, the figure of 35 million (researchers chose this number arbitrarily) influenced your answer to the second question. When people were asked both questions, rather than just the second one, their answers were much higher. That’s because their guess was unconsciously anchored by the large number they heard in the… -
From Odd Places Pull in Fresh Adventures and Friendships
20 Feb 2012 | 4:16 pmFive men are walking across the Golden Gate Bridge on an outing organized by their wives who are college friends. The women move ahead in animated conversation. One man describes the engineering involved in the bridge’s long suspension. Another points to the changing tide lines below. A third asked if they’ve heard of the new phone apps for walking tours. The fourth observes how refreshing it is to talk with people who aren’t lawyers like him. Yes, we tend to notice the details that most relate to our work or our life experience. It is also no surprise that we instinctively look for… -
Nudge Others to Act by Pulling Them Into Your Story
14 Feb 2012 | 6:34 pmMarie Beckinger was driving home from grocery shopping when a bank robber in a dented pickup truck streaked through a red light. He was attempting to escape a trailing police car. He struck the passenger’s side of Marie’s car where her infant, Gabriel, was buckled into his car seat in front and her toddler, Annabelle, was belted into her car seat in back. When the truck hit her car the side and front safety airbags inflated within 20 milliseconds, lifting and displaying her children like jewels on display in cushioned boxes. I was watching from the curb, about to step into the street.
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Taking Advantage of the BYOD Trend
14 May 2012 | 2:15 pmThe rapid evolution of mobile technology has changed many things, from how we work to how we communicate with our [...] -
Overcoming Collaboration Challenges: Free Webinar
11 May 2012 | 7:02 pmIf you work in an environment with a history of prizing individual achievement over group achievement, it may be hard to find the motivation to share information, resources, effort for the greater good. Two teams may very well have complementary skill sets, but unless there’s incentive to work together, they may be more competitive than collaborative. -
Evolving from Customer Service to Customer Collaboration
9 May 2012 | 8:13 amLike many people, I’ve raised my expectations of the products I use and the companies with which I do business, both personally and professionally. As my choices of vendors have expanded, so have the criteria by which I measure them. Product quality, convenience, brand reputation, price, previous experience, are all in the mix. Increasingly, customer service is taking a greater role. I want to work with companies that want to work with me. Collaboration technology gives you more avenues to interact with and serve your customers. Make it easy to be your customers. The efforts are worth it. -
Livin’ on the Edge in Vegas
8 May 2012 | 4:50 pmLas Vegas actively cultivates its reputation as the edgiest of American cities…so it’s rather fitting that Cisco would go there [...] -
Experience Matters in Collaboration (So Does Architecture)
7 May 2012 | 5:54 pmWhen you engage each and every employee, you can transform them from “knowledge workers” into empowered employees. And that is [...]
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The human resources walled city
10 May 2012 | 2:16 amHR/HCM is historically the mature ’social’ center of businesses and can either lead digital transformation or be subsumed into a supporting collaborative role -
Asana: speedy, stable and very well connected
3 May 2012 | 5:10 pmWell funded and connected ‘task management for teams’ firm Asana could make waves through their Facebook roots, quality code and cultural fit -
The Intention Economy
30 Apr 2012 | 1:37 amFinally a thoughtful, hype free book worth reading about digital marketing, the relationships we have with vendors and a vision for a better future where we have greater control of our personal data -
Oracle's cloud launch: solid takeoff
19 Apr 2012 | 12:31 amOracle appear to be executing very efficiently to serve the cloud era and are accelerating hard, while some of their competitors continue to discuss disjointed constructs, ideas and future plans -
Wisdom of the loud
10 Apr 2012 | 12:30 amKnowledge speaks, but wisdom listens: the trend of the loudest voices parading knowledge online and dominating conversations is slowly maturing as people realize that too much online publishing means those voices aren’t doing much else…
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5 Ways to Score Points with Your Boss
15 May 2012 | 9:04 amI thought the manager’s face would explode. I was at lunch with a high level finance executive the other day when his cell phone rang. He looked at the number displayed on the screen and his face turned beet red – I think I even saw a couple of purple splotches mixed in. He let the call go to voicemail and his face color returned to normal after a few minutes. “Everything OK?” I asked. “My employees are going to kill me,” he said. “They’re driving me crazy.” Since I’ve written a book about how employees drive their bosses crazy, I couldn’t resist pursuing more questions. -
A Change Leader’s Checklist
14 May 2012 | 12:02 pmChange isn’t easy, but it’s inevitable. As a leader, it’s your responsibility to guide your team through uncertain times. No matter what kind of shifts your team encounters, you can manage the unsure times that lie ahead. 1. Build Your Team Having the right team to carry out change is crucial to the growth of not just the team, but the entire organization. Good change makers can spot passionate people by the way they carry themselves, the confidence they exude, and the drive they possess. You will face adversity while implementing change. As the leader, you must know your team can… -
Why Does My Co-Worker Keep Turning Down My Social Overtures?
14 May 2012 | 8:46 amI received the following e-mail from a reader: Hi Alexandra, my co-worker and I really seem to get along. I like spending time with her at lunch and when we travel. I thought it would be fun for her and her husband to get together with my boyfriend and me outside the office, so I asked her a few times if they wanted to grab dinner, a movie, etc. But every time, she’s come up with some excuse as to why she can’t do it, and some of them are pretty lame. Why is she rejecting me like this? My feelings are hurt. I feel your pain. Really, I do. I experienced the same situation… -
How to Give a Bad Review
11 May 2012 | 9:01 amIt’s the part of being a manager that everyone dreads. A less than stellar employee’s review is coming up, and you have to be the bearer of bad news. Ideally, the feedback you are about to deliver shouldn’t be a surprise. Good managers address negative performance as specific examples come up and immediately work with the employee to improve. But in the real-world, this may not always happen, and even if it has, the annual or semi-annual review is the time to re-address past issues. Here are a few suggestions to help you through what may be an uncomfortable task: Spend… -
New Research: Communication in Effective Teams
10 May 2012 | 9:05 amCommunication is a key aspect of teamwork, and a team that works together well is crucial to high performance and achieving objectives. But little has been known about the role of communication styles in effective teams; in the past most research has focused on goals, individual roles, and group norms. Until now. In the April 2012 issue of the Harvard Business Review Alex “Sandy” Pentland introduces us to his new research; MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory is uncovering the details of the role of communication and team member interaction within a working team. They have been studying…
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Online Collaboration Latest News - Robin Good Newsradar
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Video Conferencing and the Dinosaurs? | Stuart Henshall
16 May 2012 | 2:32 pmAndy Abramson pointed me to his post and another on the state of the video conferencing Industry this morning. What's wrong with the Video. -
ProofHQ CEO: Remote work is bad for startups? Oh, please ...
16 May 2012 | 10:54 amFrom our experience it just simply wasn't the case, says Atkinson, who uses constant Skype chats, regular video calls and daily scrums for each area of the business to keep his team collaborating and innovating. He also ... -
Reducing Carbon Footprint with Video Conferencing | AuDeo
16 May 2012 | 8:38 amLets take a look at a real life example of how Video Conferencing can help to reduce carbon footprint. A retail company with stores throughout the UK has 6 Regional Managers who meet at their head office in London for a ... -
Collaborate Seamlessly with Online Integrated Conferencing ...
16 May 2012 | 3:39 amCollaborate Seamlessly with Online Integrated Conferencing Solutions. With a shrinking resource pool and restricted budget due to adverse economic conditions, the demand for communication systems that allow ... -
Excited about sharing screenspace with Prithviraj: Tini - Times of India
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Collaborative Journeys
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Online Dispute Resolution is a green business
1 May 2012 | 6:07 pmCollaboration is good. There can be a result that flows from people working together, that surpasses the sum of their individual contributions. Such is the case with ODR: The next green giant, a paper authored by Noam Ebner (@NoamEbner on Twitter) and Colleen Getz, with background support from Susanna Jani (@DistanceProject). It’s about ODR (Online Dispute [...] -
Nowhere Else on Earth
13 Apr 2012 | 12:53 pmWith good collaboration, anything is possible. Collaboration in the Rain Forest Up the coast from where I live in British Columbia is a one of our world’s natural treasures, the Great Bear Rain Forest. It’s the context for an epic collaboration, involving environmental groups, government, forest industry and First Nations. It’s also the context for [...] -
Puente Theatre: Community Innovation
9 Apr 2012 | 6:00 amLina de Guevara It’s from the edges of our life that some of our greatest opportunities for learning and growth come. I can safely say theatrical experience is at the edge of my life. So, when I met with the Lina de Guevara this week, for a conversation, I knew I was going to discover [...] -
Ride the waves: How participation in a Twitter chat can benefit you and your community
5 Apr 2012 | 6:53 pmIf you are looking for some “experiential” social media learning, in a supportive environment, Twitter chats make a good bet. I particularly enjoy the ADRHub.com Twitter chats. They are held the last Wednesday of each month. Most of the folks who participate are mediators, and other professionals, who practice non-adversarial approaches to conflict resolution. We’re [...] -
The Railway Switchman and The Mediator: Your Relationship Guides
29 Mar 2012 | 4:00 amThe railway switchman and the mediator. So different, yet so much alike. Both focus on relationships. The switchman: Knows where the trains are coming from Sees where the trains want to go Looks ahead to the crossings and transfer points Safely guides the trains forward to their new destinations Like a switchman, the mediator [...]
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Perficient Portal Solutions Blog
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Creating Managed Pages in WebSphere Portal 8: First Look
16 May 2012 | 7:24 amI’ve starting playing with IBM WebSphere Portal 8 (see Installing Part 1 and Installing Part 2) and the first task I attempted was to create a new page. If you haven’t heard, WebSphere Portal 8 includes a new feature called Managed Pages. With this feature, you can create Projects to hold changes to Portal, such as new pages, new content, modified content, etc and publish them at one time. My goal was to create a new page using a project without reading the documentation. So the first thing to notice after you log on – as the administrator in my case – is the upper… -
IBM Connections Suite
15 May 2012 | 12:47 pmIBM released today the IBM Connection Suite that combines the features and functions of: IBM Connections IBM Sametime Advanced IBM Sametime SUT Lite Lotus Quickr FileNet There are some nice videos on the capabilities which really start to see some of the Project Northstar coming to fruition. Click here to view the embedded video. Now, there is nothing that you couldn’t do before but the vision here is clearly defined and you will likely see some pricing that will enable the enterprise to get this done faster and cheaper. The only downside of this is the fact that there isn’t one… -
Understanding IBM Worklight
14 May 2012 | 7:15 amIBM’s new Worklight software is a what we call a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP). MEAPs allow you to create exciting mobile applications by integrating multiple existing web and service applications. Using this approach you can easily deploy one integrated application to multiple platforms and multiple device types. In fact, IBM Worklight allows you to deliver your applications in four different ways: Browser based – using HTML 5, CSS and Javascript Hybrid Web – consists of web code executed in a native app – the Worklight Shell, which makes your… -
Installing WebSphere Portal 8 Part 2
11 May 2012 | 5:26 pmWell, if you a regular reader of our blog, you’ll know that I started my WebSphere Portal installation (see Installing WebSphere Portal 8) but forgot to check the system requirements. So I stopped when Installation Manager told be that Windows Server 2003 was not supported. Well I got a couple of comments that basically said, come on you baby, just go ahead and install it on Windows Server 2003 Server, it’ll probably work. So I restarted the install. Never mind that I didn’t have enough memory (RAM, not mine). I accepted the defaults and entered an ID and password for… -
Installing IBM WebSphere Portal 8
7 May 2012 | 7:53 amI’ve started experimenting with the new IBM WebSphere Portal 8 (Enable version). My first adventure that I’d like to share with you was downloading and installing this new version. I’ve installed previos versions of Portal many, many times starting with version 5.0. So I jumped onto the IBM website, found the install images and started up the download. First, the download is bigger than in previous versions. In previous versions, I downloaded 6 images for a total of around 4gb. With this version, I had to download 10 images (2 for IBM Installation Manager, 3 for…
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Leader Networks blog
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Strategy First, Platform Second ... Please!
1 May 2012 | 8:00 amI don't know how many times I've had to shift a conversation into reverse when an initial business discussion about online communities begins with "We're thinking about starting an online community. What's your opinion of Platform X?" Too many companies decide they want to invest in an online community -- be it internal or externally-facing -- and then move right to making the community platform acquisition decision without EVER considering the mission, vision and goals for the community. It's like starting a business negotiation with "I want to buy something. What have you got to sell?"… -
Time For You To Shine Online!
23 Apr 2012 | 8:58 amPhoto Credit: bjorn.watland As more and more individuals become involved in professional online communities, understanding how to engage online becomes increasingly important. While most professionals develop good skills at in-person networking and idea-sharing, when they start looking to use an online group or forum to collaborate with peers the keyboard can sometimes get in the way of effective communication. Here are a few guidelines to help new members of professional communities get the most out their participation in online peer groups. Find the right online community Identifying… -
A Small Organization Creates a Big Community Success Case Study: ASCA's SCENE for School Counselors
10 Apr 2012 | 9:02 amWhen you're searching high and low for the next big thing, or scanning the edge for the next new thing, you can miss real success stories. So here's one to contemplate: a free, private online community serving a crucial constituency, aligned with but outside of an existing non-profit organization. And this is one of the most engaged, most active and fastest-growing communities I've seen in awhile. In preparation for a talk I am doing at the DigitalNow conference to a group of association executives, I came across this online community. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA)… -
Are You Ready For A Discussion Or Do You Want To Have A Monologue?
7 Mar 2012 | 8:30 amRecently, I blogged about measuring engagement in online communities. The post and accompanying framework were focused on measuring engagement within private online communities - primarily B2B. But there is a wider need for organizations to build engagement with community stakeholders wherever they are on the social channel. For the moment, marketing and "influence relations" professionals are the primary voices of the company. These professionals measure and define success by their ability to get a corporate message out to the world. Social media can be a fast and effective way to accomplish… -
How Do You Measure Member Engagement?
27 Feb 2012 | 7:05 amMember engagement is a popular term these days, applied to everything from customer loyalty programs to Facebook games to political campaigns. There are tools that purport to track every “like” or tweet as evidence that your members, or customers, or just visitors, are listening and “engaged”. I’m skeptical. I think this very useful and important term is being misused, applied to a wide range of online activities in today’s engagement-obsessed social media world. Too often, a moment of fleeting attention is classified as an engagement event. In our online…
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The Social Workplace
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Employee Investment Means Business Results
9 May 2012 | 8:22 amThrough their Employer Solutions Blog, Sage HRMS discusses and provides advice on various HR and payroll topics. Their latest post and infographic illustrates how employees are the most important component in the quest to improve business results. Why are some companies thriving while others struggle to stay in business? What is the distinctive difference between a good company and a truly great company? The answers to these questions can only be found when looking at what defines the company: its people. The people that make up a company are that organization’s unique and biggest asset. -
Frontline Employees: Engaging the Dis-engaged
7 May 2012 | 2:14 pmThis post was originally published by CallMe! IQ, the online resource for Human Capital issues facing the Call Center and Business Process Outsourcing industries. The original post: High Cost of Employee Dis-engagement. While this particular post is geared towards call center employees, there’s great information, action plan and case studies that apply across all functional areas. The business case for employee engagement is often couched in terms of effort and performance. Highly engaged employees are willing to invest more of themselves in their jobs, give more discretionary effort,… -
From Social Media to Social Business at IBM BeNeLux (Case Study)
4 May 2012 | 10:33 amIBM’s goal is to promote the vision of social business by embedding it into the digital activities and everyday thinking of employees. The challenge is to inspire already technically savvy and digitally motivated employees to become ‘digital citizens’, enthuse them about the value social media can add and motivate them to start exploring the online world. With this objective in mind, IBM BeNeLux enlisted the aid of global marketing agency, Ketchum Pleon, to help them transition from not just doing social media, but to transform their daily business through social technologies. A pool… -
Infographic | The Evolution of Sharing and Communication
28 Apr 2012 | 12:02 pmOriginal source: The Daily Infographic Communication is the process of conveying information. Almost all species have some sort of communication system. However, successful communication is the trait that has made humans the most successful species. This infographic shows a timescale of how communication has evolved over time. It’s hard to imagine communication long before the hustle and bustle of email and text messaging. Technological communication has grown exponentially, leaving snail mail to be a thing of the past. Facebook and Twitter is the most popular form of communication right… -
Using Social Media to Enhance Company Morale
25 Apr 2012 | 11:45 amNote: We’re excited to have this guest post by Brad Shorr, Director of Content & Social Media for Straight North. See Brad’s bio at the end of the article. We tend to think of social media as a set of marketing tools. But a social strategy focused on employees is an option well worth considering. The human resources approach is particularly applicable in these four corporate environments. When employees are scattered across multiple geographic locations and have few opportunities to interact. When employees attend conventions, seminars, and other corporate events on a…
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Welcome to the European Citizens' House!
16 May 2012 | 3:41 amYou have more European rights and more ways to claim them than you imagine. When the EU Institutions take decisions and the 27 Member States apply them, they are bound by a Charter of Fundamental Rights. And, for the first time, Europeans have a right to take transnational democratic initiatives: over one million citizens can demand a new EU law. There is often though a gap between the fine principles of European law and how it is actually applied on the ground. There is no clear European citizens’ charter of enforceable rights. Communication about the ways to enforce rights… -
[WeGov Project] Phase 2 Evaluations with the German Bundestag
24 Apr 2012 | 7:37 amThe WeGov team launched the Phase 2 Evaluation of the second version of the WeGov toolbox in March 2012. WeGov is a toolset that allows policy-makers to take full advantage to be taken of a wide range of existing and well established social networking sites in order to engage citizens in two-way dialogs as part of the governance and policymaking processes. The toolset contains a number of configurable tools to search, detect, track and mine opinions and discussions on policy oriented topics on a range of social media platforms.social networking sites. -
4th event of the LSP Roadshow at the 7th PEPPOL Conference in Rome (May 29-30 2012)
24 Apr 2012 | 2:06 amGOV2U is proud to invite everyone to the 4th event of the Large scale Pilots Roadshow which is taking place in the framework of the 7th PEPPOL conference (Rome, May 29-30 2012). The LSP Roadshow is a stream of events parallel to ongoing dissemination activities of the LSPs and building on specific actions in the e-Government action plan and Digital Agenda. It consists of building blocks coming from the different Large Scale Pilots, presented under one logo and message –"LSP LEGO". -
How Will The Internet Influence Democracy?
19 Apr 2012 | 2:17 amThe way we learn to use the Internet in the next few years (or fail to learn) will influence the way our grandchildren govern themselves. Yet only a tiny fraction of the news stories about the impact of the Net focus attention on the ways many to-many communication technology might be changing democracy — and those few stories that are published center on how traditional political parties are using the Web, not on how grassroots movements might be finding a voice. Democracy is not just about voting for our leaders. Democracy is about citizens who have the information and freedom of… -
Visualizing the Global Digital Divide By Mapping Internet And Population
18 Apr 2012 | 2:30 amWith this map, Gregor Aisch tried to visualize the global digital divide. It shows more than 80,000 populated places in blue and about 350,000 locations of IP addresses in red. White dots indicate places where many people live and many IP addresses are available.
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Collective Self
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What is community?
15 May 2012 | 8:29 pmCommunity is such an old human word—800-ish years old in Latin (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/community) and likely far older than that in other languages and cultures I’d guess. A unified body of individuals, says Merriam Webster. Love that. Community is a word that has lived through time relatively unscathed. As near as I can tell, community was generally considered a good thing way back when, and it’s generally considered a good thing now. Many words these days are not so lucky, have you noticed this? So many words—too many words—are devolving into harsher, narrower… -
Tapping the source of unexpected courage: community and self-organizing groups
30 Apr 2012 | 7:03 pmAs of this May, I’ve spent 9 years working, living, and learning as self-organizing groups and community. What I noticed most this week is the astonishing courage demonstrated by individuals who have spent prolonged time within these human collectives: courage astonishing to themselves as well as others. Here are some examples. Because I know these people very well—they are my own community and self-organizing group members—I know that these examples demonstrate that the community and self-organizing group pulled courage out of these individuals that they themselves didn’t fully know… -
Living well as a marketing strategy: ideas from our coworking space
20 Apr 2012 | 7:30 pmOur dear old dog Grady got lost for 2½ hours last Monday night, during rush hour in our urban Seattle neighborhood, wearing his new sock-monkey collar (while the one with his name and phone number sat uselessly on our counter). Daniel and I were in a complete panic, meltdown mess. Our home looked like an episode of Finding America’s Lost Children: there were fliers and posters being made, neighbors running in and out, and friends and complete strangers, including other dogs, roaming the neighborhood looking for him. This resulted in a neighbor telling us that his mom found her dog in an… -
Grady’s story: Why community makes me wag
11 Apr 2012 | 3:07 pmMonday evening I decided to go on an unannounced neighborhood Walkabout. I actually planned just to go from the backyard to the front yard, but a squirrel caught my eye and before you know it I was at our corner store. At this point, I was kind of freaked out, I’m never away from my family, so when this very nice-smelling nice guy (Nathan) walked by, I followed him. His kind heart, short hair, and plaid shirt reminded me of of our housemate Chris. As it turned out, Nathan lives a LOOONG way from our house. Lori tells me its more than a mile that I followed Nathan home. Nathan was so cool. -
How do I know if I’m with the right group or community of people?
5 Apr 2012 | 6:20 pmOur world is amazing. Have you noticed that today? Noticed how amazing your world is despite the looming global environmental crisis and the 24×7 corporate-and-political-muck-and-mud-slinging circus and the foul-tempered stranger you met on the street? Silly question. Of course you noticed or you wouldn’t be here. Better question. Have you noticed today that you get to define the center, middle, and the edges of your own community now? Have you noticed that your soulmates are scattered across your beautiful country and this blue-green planet like a handful of jewels scattered…
