Serialized thinking

I have been writing this blog since 2002. There are 000s of posts here. I’m looking for the right editor and publisher to work with me to turn some of this content into serialized pamphlets – separate book chapters if you will. I envision a series of short pieces* – each no longer than 20-25 [...]

Foundation blogs – again

Peter Osnos writes about media for The Century Foundation. His weekly column, “The Platform” is one of my “must reads.”As regular readers of this site know, I think the changes in the media business give us much to think about where philanthropy (and many other industries) are concerned.*
Anyway, beside taking time to appreciate some thinkers [...]

Stay tuned, there is more to come in 2007

My previous post was so badly written as to confuse many of you. It was not my last blog post for 2007, just my last post to SSIR for the year. Still to come between now and December 31, 2007….

Buzzwords number 8, 9, and, (drumroll, please) of course, 10
The recap on my 2006 predictions about [...]

Convergence culture

(Warning – unabashed plug follows)
Philanthropy2173 is now cross-posting at the Stanford Social Innovation Review, with The Huffington Post, on Facebook, and the Giving Channel.
My posts are also “streamed” through to JustMeans homepage and are often picked up (sometimes almost verbatim) at Philanthropy.com/giveandtake
You can run, but you can’t hide. Please join me in the comments section [...]

Hitchhiked

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Blogosphere found me – this is a nice writeup of the blog (even though they are a year further into the future than I am). Thanks, folks.
Tags: philanthropy, blogs

Blogging COF

Here’s the list of bloggers for the Council on Foundation’s Annual Conference:

Philanthropy 2173 (http://www.philanthropy2173.com)

Worldchanging (www.Worldchanging.org)

TacticalPhilanthropy (http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com)
The Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/)
With (http://with.gilbert.org/)
PhilanthroMedia (http://www.PhilanthroMedia.org)

Stanford Social Innovation Review (www.ssireview.org/opinion/)

The Council is also hosting a “bloggers banquet” – this will be part of the home page for the Council site that conference attendees (and others?) will see when they log [...]

New (to me) blog on changing the world

The blog is called SharingWitness and its got some important thinkers writing for it. I love the combination of voices, and the look (newspaper-esque). The categories cut across many of my interests. Its copyright date is 2006, so my apologies for not finding it sooner.
One thing occurred to me as I read through several [...]

Ya gotta wonder

The Nonprofiteer doesn’t:

understand irony
read very closely
follow logic across posts
like me
all of the above
none of the above

Here’s the post on the Nonprofiteer.
And, here is my, post lunch, blood sugar-affected cranky response:
“Glad to know what my stock in trade is. I would have thought it was my ability to see patterns where others don’t, to apply historiographical [...]

New resource for donors interested in Asia

It is simply called In Asia, a new blog by the Asia Foundation. Check it out.
Reminds me of the need to listen to people in the places and of the communities that donors want to assist. Other blogs that help outsiders “listen in” include Global Voices and BlogAfrica, each of which can help you find [...]

Of alternative currencies, placeblogs, and mobile finance

Xigi and WorldChanging have been writing about alternative currencies, an important topic as we think about new forms of social capital. Many of the discussions around new currencies look at the macro level. For example, the global value of frequent flier miles (US$700 billion) is often cited, as is the successful transition to the euro.
But [...]