Facilitating Change

Research Briefs: Simple tools to link research to practice

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Briefs are important communication tools for linking research findings to policy and practice — and ultimately affecting change. Because face it: in the attention economy no one has time to read the full report. Here's the format we've developed at the Technology & Social Change Group for writing a research brief.

Communications: Thinking about a better way

Friday, July 31, 2009

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“We do so much but no one knows about it. We have to do a better job of telling our story.” I've heard this again and again. So, why's it so hard? I've come to suspect that part of it has to do with the structure of communications within organizations. The centralized structure is a problem. We need to figure out how to make a distributed model work.

Extending empathy forward

Saturday, July 4, 2009

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I got this expression from the first One Giant Leap film. From the section on time and the 10,000-year clock. I use it in my knowledge sharing work — when trying to explain why it's important to document, tag, give context. The idea is to make it easier to build on each other's work.

Unmanaging knowledge

Thursday, June 25, 2009

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Unmanaging Knowledge, an article by Charles Ehin, has a few nuggets I found helpful. He’s describing characteristics of an open organization. I don’t believe in open all the time. I actually get along quite well with rules and structure. They’re important. (Well, as long as they’re smart and don’t get in my way. Then time [...]

Social Reporting

Friday, May 29, 2009

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I've been thinking about how to better document events for a while now. This came up again today during the OpenEverything organizing call. Documentation falls into a sad communication grey zone. The poor cousin of Event Design. Too many times an after-thought, with little resources or planning, left to a small group of people. The solution? Social Reporting.

A comic annual report

Monday, March 23, 2009

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Face it: most annual report are boring and they suck. Reading or (worse) writing them will suck your life force, transforming you into a dry, withered shell that your loved ones will stare at and kick around, wondering what happened to you. And producing them will do the same to your organization’s time and financial [...]

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