Everyday I troll a bunch of the blogs to the left and there is so much good stuff that I want to share and log here for later, that I’m just going to start publishing these excerpts, if you don’t mind. I realize that this may be a little redundant, republishing links and quotes without adding anything, but this stuff stands on it’s own, and besides, I might just come back to it at some point. So here you are with the latest batch: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Revolution: “The last class I took before I went out on …
The work continues apace on the design of the community summit on youth suicide. I have completed a sketch of the summit agenda which will bear much more fleshing out, but it has been a terrific challenge trying to work with all the ideas of all my conversational partners at the global water cooler and fit these into a short day. At any rate, here’s what I’ve got so far (.doc). If you’re still interested in contributing thinking to this, I’m looking for some really good questions (I have a few in mind which I’ll post soon) and also how …
Prompted by posts by Johnnie Moore Ton Zylstra and David Wilcox, I’ve been thinking about how we might improve conferences. As a facilitator of Open Space Technology and other large group processes, I offer clients ways of radically transforming conferences to make them highly productive. But these meetings require changes in expectations and frames of reference that are sometimes too much for a client to go on. When you are convening an international conference on business and the environment, putting everyone in a circle and placing paper and markers at the centre of the room can sometimes seem too much …
Good reads from good feeds: Speciulation that Einstein was a space alien Wealth Bondage on a spirited defense of liberalism and the public square. “�True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. If you love something, you want to look after it. Common sense has much to learn from moonshine.� from Phillip Pullman in the Guardian, found at sift everything Simple rules for the self-organization of communities of practice. Shawn wants you to help make them even simpler. The big problem with strategic planning in non-profits: “…most plans are filled with horrible mistakes, unrealistic expectations …