Exploring the Social Lab Framework
About a year ago I discovered the work of Zaid Hassan around Social Labs through social media and a new book he wrote The Social Labs Revolution about designing and [...]
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Apr 2015
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Feb 2015
Celebrating an Anniversary
Time flies and already I have finished five years of blogging. To celebrate I spent some time reviewing those 85+ posts, adding other ideas that came to mind from that [...]
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Jul 2014
Inspirational People and Inspirational Teams
I wrote a blog post a few years ago on what I believe makes an inspirational person. Groups of people working together in concert can also make inspirational teams. A [...]
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Apr 2014
Scaling for Impact by Scaling Deep
I’ve written about scale-up (scaling) many times before, as scale-up or under another ‘label’ for the scaling concept – international outreach. Working with a number of groups involved in various [...]
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Apr 2013
Creating Effective Partnerships: Ownership and sustainability at the local level
This is a guest post by Meg Mall, International Development Consultant for Goodwill Industries International In my various roles with Goodwill Industries International over the past 10 years, I’ve supported [...]
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Feb 2013
The Boundary of Age
This is a guest post by Kate Otto of Everyday Ambassador. My guest post on the same theme can be found on EA's site here. My name is Kate Otto, [...]
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Jan 2013
We’re All in this Together
Reading and thinking about Oxfam America’s new aid campaign and some of the reactions to it, made me think about the title of a song my kids used to listen [...]
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Nov 2012
What’s the recipe?
I’ve been reading a lot of things and heard a number of conversations recently that seem to imply that “If you just use this new innovation or tool, or have [...]
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Oct 2012
Blog Action Day: The Power of WE
The theme of this year’s Blog Action Day is “The Power of WE - a celebration of people working together to make a positive difference in the world…” I’ve [...]
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Oct 2012
Building an International Framework – What does it take?
Last week I facilitated a roundtable discussing observations and ‘lessons learned’ from the creation and growth of an international organization I helped steer. I wrote about the creation of the [...]