Closing Triangles

Monday, 11 January 2010, 17:32 | Category : Coaching, Community, Leadership
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I think of myself as nurturing networks and communities as well as individuals and organizations. And one strategy I use is network weaving. Network Weaving describes the connection made between two people I know who don’t yet know each other as closing a triangle, because in a network map, this is exactly what it looks [...]

Network Weaving: A Key to Creating Thrivability

Friday, 24 April 2009, 21:40 | Category : Feel
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photo credit: Aaron Escobarâ„¢
My roots are connected deep into the ground, engaged in a continuous interplay with the soil, bacteria, microorganisms, fungi, insects, and water, gathering nourishment to help me thrive.  My leaves and branches dance with the wind, the sun, with animals, birds, insects, microorganisms, bacteria, all in continual flow. My body returns [...]

Imagining the future with PeopleBrowsr

(cross-posted on PeopleBrowsr blog)
While I am already in love with PeopleBrowsr as my twitter client, there are some key ways I anticipate PeopleBrowsr transforming my social media experience:
1. More cross-network attention spanning. I am seeing the people that matter to me across their social media-scapes. For example, using my tag-groups developed via [...]

Why I fell in love with PeopleBrowsr

Thursday, 22 January 2009, 19:53 | Category : Technology, marketing
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(cross-posted to PeopleBrowsr blog)
Grouping
I learned from @ValdisKrebs that I am a connector and a boundary spanner. So I was already using Twitter to follow people from many different networks that interest me. But it was getting hard to get what I needed from a single stream. PeopleBrowsr allows me to tag-group my different networks. When [...]

Savoring People in San Fran

Wow, what an incredible trip.
Friday night I arrived in San Francisco. Michael Maranda and I drove to the San Fran University area to meet with the Appropedia folks organizing the Open Sustainability Network camp. Discovering that they didn’t have a clear plan for facilitation, I stepped in. I knew if I didn’t that it would [...]