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Category Archives: Social Change
US Department of Labor Employees Meet Each Other (and US!) on Facebook
“We’re All Doing It”
Last month the US Department of Labor (DOL) launched a Facebook page. Other federal agencies maintain them too, but DOL hasn’t really been out-front in implementing the Administration’s early commitment to communication, transparency, and participation. While Facebook is just one means of demonstrating this commitment (the Department, and Secretary of Labor Hilda [...]
Also posted in Gov20, Social Media & Engagement Factoids, Uncategorized, Work and Learning 2.0 Tagged citizen engagement, Department of Labor, DOL, facebook, jobs, social media, transparency, twitter, unemployment, USDOL, work 3 Comments
Revisiting Our Community Agility Ecosystem
What’s Community Agility?
Two years ago – when we launched the Community Initiatives Team – agility was on ours minds. Pre-recession, we were hearing flat, but seeing spiky. Our team members live and work in regions as diverse as Portland (OR), Tucson (AZ), Charlotte (NC), and all over Michigan. So while the U.S. economy at the [...]
Also posted in Collaboration, Community, Gov20, Longform, Regions, Treasures, Uncategorized Tagged agility, change, community, entrepreneurial culture, Entrepreneurship, gov2.0, Gov20, innovation, networks, resilience, smart cities, smart communities, Social Innovation Leave a comment
New Working Paper: Social Change with a Network Mindset
Monitor Institute Releases Working Wikily 2.0
Networks and Social Change
We love and have been following the Working Wikily blog for some time now, but authors Diana Scearce, Gabriel Kasper, and Heather McLeod Grant have outdone themselves on this one. We agree that a networked mindset is evolving – and it changes assumptions about how the world [...]
Also posted in Social Innovation, Treasures, Work and Learning 2.0 Tagged community2.0, culture, learning2.0, mindset, monitor, networks, social change, web2.0, wiki 1 Comment
Leading Tribes in the Post-TV World
Seth Godin and Tribes on TED
“The Beatles did not invent teenagers.”
You don’t need everyone. You need the ones who care – the true believers. And the web connects you to them.
Leading Change
If you are in the change business, ask three questions:
Who are you upsetting?
Who are you connecting?
Who are you leading?
Then start a movement.
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Posted in Social Change Tagged change, connection, leadership, movements, seth godin, story, tribes Leave a comment
Michael Wesch: “The Crisis of Significance”
People love learning things that matter.
People want to learn what’s significant.
Michael Wesch creates significance for the University of Manitoba, and for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between the new media ecosystem and the kind of learning we need now. It’s a bit long, but engaging enough to entertain, and instructive enough to make [...]
Also posted in Treasures, Work and Learning 2.0 Tagged anthropology, education, learning, learning2.0, michael, web2.0, wesch Leave a comment
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