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Throwing Pebbles in the Soup

How can we build ownership with a target audience when we are still building solutions within our project team? It’s a messy process but it happens one pebble at a time.

Defining Social Architecture

The closer I investigate the term Social Architecture the more I begin to look like a dog chasing his tail.

Getting Serious about Community Development (Part 20)

A closer look at the one ingredient that makes the difference between authentic and inauthentic communities, i.e.: Autonomy.

Getting Serious about Community Development (Part 19)

In this article we take a closer look at the personal investment loop that strengthens the feeling of membership.

Laundry Learnings

Is it resistance or is it poor design?

Death by Competence

The alternative title for this article could have been: ‘Why I don’t believe in Competence Management’.

A Declaration of War to All Marketing People

I beg you not to get carried away with scores and metrics and to see the value of social media for what it really is.

Crucial Conversations with Oneself

Traveling to the other side of the world to find out that the most important thing is, in fact, to be there in that moment.

I get a Kick out of Going Local

In this article I describe four processes that take place when we go local to spend time with the change targets and the local sustaining sponsors.

Energy Management

You may think it’s ironic that I am writing about energy management the very day that I left the office before noon because … I was a bit low on energy.