Build it and they may come….
Although the movie Field of Dreams made the line “Build it and they will come..” famous, in reality we all know it’s a bit more complicated than that. When we’re [...]
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Feb 2011
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Jan 2011
What did you Say? (NGOs and Internal Communication in a Technologically Driven World)
Last month I wrote about the importance of communication loops to effective internal decision making. Systematizing effective communication is hard within any organization (especially in an era of ‘information overload), [...]
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Jan 2011
Haiti one year later: What Have We Learned?
Unless you’ve been very far away from any media over the past year you know there was a devastating earthquake in Haiti last January. And you may have observed that [...]
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Jan 2011
A collection of end-of-the-year articles, blogs & reflections
From an earthquake in Haiti to rescued miners in Chile…from the IPad to Jumo ….and don’t forget the World Cup and the Millennium Development Goals review: Where were we and [...]
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Dec 2010
Harry Who?
I primarily blog about topics of interest to NGO practitioners as their organizations engage internationally. But from time to time a topic comes along that is international but a little [...]
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Dec 2010
Internal decision making practices: doesn’t sound exciting, but oh so important
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 [...]
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Nov 2010
The The Cosi10 Learning Process – Organizing Around the World On and Offline
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 [...]
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Nov 2010
Thanksgiving and EpicThanks
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 [...]
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Nov 2010
A Community of Practice to Discuss Global Scale Up
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 [...]
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Oct 2010
The preciousness of water
The annual Blog Action Day is 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 [...]