Network Building for Social Change
Context/Rationale
http://www.TheShiftMovie.com
http://www.GlobalOnenessProject.org
Did You Know 2.0?
http://www.forthenext7generations.com/view_media.html
Building a Network: Video from Reflection on Practice Video Series
Blogs
NetAge Endless Knots http://endlessknots.netage.com/
TNT - The Network Thinker http://www.thenetworkthinker.com/
Network Weaving http://www.networkweaver.blogspot.com/
Working Wikily: Making Sense of Networks and Social Change http://workingwikily.net/
Network Mapping
June Holley http://www.networkweaving.com/june.html
Valdes Krebs http://www.orgnet.com
Bruce Hoppe http://www.connectiveassociates.com/about.html
Technology
BLOC - Building Leadership, Organizing Communities: Social networking site for social justice activists
Network-Centric Advocacy
Orgnet.com: Social network analysis software & services for organizations, communities, and their consultants
Techsoup: The Technology Place for NonProfits
Networks in Action
Berkana Institute: Supporting and connecting community leaders around the globe.
Connect U.S.: A network to promote responsible U.S. global engagement
Global Action Network Net: A growing community of global action network leaders, researchers, funders and other stakeholders who are committed to developing action networks that serve the public good.
Lawrence Community Works: Supporting leadership development and applying network theory to community development.
Readings
Here are a few book options. For a complete list, please see the attached file.
Anklam, Patti. Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World.
Barabási, Albert-Laszlo. Linked: How everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life.
Brafman, Ori and Rod A. Beckstrom. The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations.
Johansson, Frans. The Medici Effect: What elephants and epidemics can teach us about innovation.
Lederach, John Paul. The Moral Imagination: The art and soul of building peace.
Lipnack, Jessica and Jeffrey Stamps. The Age of the Network: Organizing Principles for the 21st Century.
Meadows, Donella. Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Edited by Diana Wright, Sustainability Institute.
Shirky, Clay. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organization.
Search for Clay Shirky talking about his work on Youtube!
And here are a few articles, which can be downloaded directly from the following links.
deSouza Briggs, Xavier (Harvard Kennedy School of Government). Community Building: The New (and Old) Politics of Urban Problem-Solving.
Kasper, Gabriel and Diana Scearce (Monitor Institute). Acting Wikily: How Networks are Changing Social Change.
Plastrik, Peter and Madeleine Taylor. Net Gains: A handbook for network builders seeking social change.
Traynor, William J., and Jessica Andors (Lawrence Community Works). Network Organizing: A Strategy for Building Community Engagement.