Engaging Internationally

Internal decision making practices: doesn’t sound exciting, but oh so important

December 7, 2010

Last week , I lamented  “Why am I still surprised at the number  of organizations that don’t follow the most basic ‘good practices’ for internal decision-making?” A colleague replied that he was “actually looking for a guideline to those” and did I have any recommendations.  As a quick search of my files on and offline …

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The The Cosi10 Learning Process – Organizing Around the World On and Offline

November 30, 2010

Over the weekend of November 5th-7th 2010 four groups met in Belgium, Cyprus, and the U.S. (Chicago and Denver) to talk about social innovation and their personal entrepreneurial projects.  The Cosi10 meet-ups had been in the planning for several months spearheaded by Christina Jordan.  Local event organizers (for these four locations as well as others …

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Thanksgiving and EpicThanks

November 23, 2010

Thursday is Thanksgiving in the U.S.  With Christmas Day and New Years it is one of only three days when almost all commercial and governmental operations are closed.  I especially like Thanksgiving because it is secular and everyone celebrates it.  Thanksgiving has a history  and all kinds of discussion about its origins, but it is
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A Community of Practice to Discuss Global Scale Up

November 4, 2010

In June I wrote about some of the scale-up work I was doing with the Helping Babies Breathe. In August I wrote about a collaboration with  Amy Sample Ward of NetSquared to launch a GlobalScale wiki and  to shepherd the creation of a community of practice on this topic area.

The Helping Babies Breathe program …

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The preciousness of water

October 15, 2010

Today is the annual Blog Action Day, this year focused on water.  Take a few minutes with me to focus on this important issue.

In some ways I’ve had water conservation as a recurring theme for the past few decades of my life.   Early on in my professional career I was the executive director of …

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