“Social Networks and Social Change”: giving and getting wiki-working wisdom at Stanford

Written by Noah Flower on Monday, February 1st, 2010
Filed under Synthesis

Over the weekend I helped teach a continuing-studies course at Stanford with Diana Scearce and Heather Mcleod-Grant. It was a real joy — the experience of sharing what we’ve learned with a diverse audience of highly-engaged listeners made it entirely worthwhile to get up early on a sunny Saturday. We were glad to be able to share our current thinking with people from across the spectrum in the social sector and it helped us a great deal to see that they appreciated the content that we’ve created with primarily foundation and nonprofit management in mind. To all who came: thank you, I hope you found it valuable, and please come by this blog and our Twitter-stream to continue the conversation into the future. We would love to hear your stories of how you’ve tried to apply these ideas in your own efforts. This is a very fast-moving area of practice and only through your eyes and ears that we can keep a handle on what works and what doesn’t.

As promised, all of the materials are up on SlideShare. We’ve released them under Creative Commons, so please feel free to download them for your own re-use and re-mixing, just so long as you give us credit. I’ve embedded the documents below so that you can flip through them quickly. To download a copy to keep just click the “download” button above each one.

Here are the slides:

Here is the healthy networks diagnostic:

And here’s the network mapping exercise, which is only a slight modification of June Holley’s original design:

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