Category Archives: Social Change
Book Review: Open Leadership, Charlene Li – A Practical Guide to the Emerging Open Future
I loved Groundswell (Josh Bernoff, Charlene Li). While little in the way of specific content was new to me at the time I read it, the book offered an organizing framework: an environmental snapshot, an articulation of changing practices, and specific strategies for embracing (and measuring) them – all of which gave me a coherent [...]
Rock Stars, Regions & Resilience
Rock Stars It’s funny how, depending on the lens you use, certain people can become your own personal rock star. I recently attended an International Economic Development Council (IEDC) event in Texas. I was pulling all of my best networking moves and finally decided I needed to take a break and actually “listen” to one [...]
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Big Changes at Work
Last week we were drafting a set of policy recommendations for a project. We’d drafted an introduction that named demographics, technology, and the competitive landscape as among the most significant domains of change in the workplace during the past decade. At that point I realized how many times I’d seen this collection of words and [...]
Also posted in Longform, Work and Learning 2.0, Young People Tagged diversity, economy, growth, learning, millenials, recession, sustainability, talent, technology, trends, workers, workforce, workforce demographics Leave a comment
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 [...]
Also posted in Gov20, Social Media & Engagement Factoids, Uncategorized, Work, Work and Learning 2.0 Tagged citizen engagement, Department of Labor, DOL, facebook, jobs, social media, transparency, twitter, unemployment, USDOL 4 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Also posted in Treasures, Work and Learning 2.0 Tagged anthropology, education, learning, learning2.0, michael, web2.0, wesch Leave a comment
Hometown Advantage with a “D”