love community organizing. I’ve had experience organizing communities offline in local communities, and organizing community online – but the kind of organizing that inspires me the most is combining online and offline. What’s the point in using “global&# tools (social media) for local organizing? MORE >>

The word most in question: “organization&#. When applying the idea of the traditional understandings of the word “organization&# to this bunch, we could say: Strawberries = the organization (staff). How important would volunteers be without any organization or community to support?  Raspberries. Blackberries. MORE >>

We focused on principles for community building and community organizing, as well as examples of both short-term and long-term engagement. Principles of Community Organizing. It’s important to remember that not everything your organization wants to do or achieve, matches up with with your community wants to do, and vice versa. MORE >>

Pssst… A little bird might have told me that my book with Jamie Notter, Humanize: How People Centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World is available for pre-order on Amazon. Humanize The Social OrganizationCheck it out. More details to come. MORE >>

So what does this have to do with social media and organizations? But traditional organizations don’t like conflict. If our organizations are going to thrive in today’s social world, they will need to be a lot better at handling conflict. Humanize The Social OrganizationTo be social means to have conflict. MORE >>