KINS and Growing a Field

Saturday, 18 August 2007, 13:54 | Category : Community, Field Building, Leadership, Mapping and Visualization
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Looking over Capital Missions Companies, Key Initiator Network Strategy (KINS), I have many points of agreement about the principles behind the strategies. I believe
• that we are all one
• that there are key laws of nature including distributed intelligence and emergence which we can learn from
• that there is strength in weak ties
• that peer-to-peer relationship offer great power
• that [...]

All over the place and focus

I suppose to some people my interests appear to be all over the place: philanthropy, currencies, technology, visualization, mapping, marketing, coaching, leadership, process arts, community development, art, creativity, and some other issues too like globalization, the bottom of the pyramid, social entrepreneurship, etc. And most of these areas I have enough understanding to listen and [...]

Kimberly Olson and good copy for a writer’s website

Monday, 13 August 2007, 11:27 | Category : marketing
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My cousin Kim, always an inspiration and mentor to me, put up a website recently. Beautiful, clean, great copy (of course). I really like her naming of pages and how she positions things so clearly.
I must find the time to read some of these articles…
Kimberly Olson.
I also love that she highlights that she is a [...]

Giving and Partnership

Monday, 13 August 2007, 9:05 | Category : Philanthropy
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Always a source of wisdom, insight, and fantastic probing, GiftHub posts:

Some of my favorite people, including Anne Ellinger and Tracy Gary, are written up in the Chronicle of Philanthropy for raising the question of how much wealthy families should keep for themselves and how much they should be giving back to society. This is the [...]

Endings and Beginnings

Thursday, 9 August 2007, 16:45 | Category : Community
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With Omidyar.net soon to close the doors piled on top of my frustration at the lack of self-governance and community-nurturing practices, I am looking for new homes. Have been looking around for a few months.
Never going to MySpace…no way, too cluttery, and too little community feel.
Second Life…went there…but it seems my computer can’t crunch [...]