Yesterday, I checked out the session “Community organizing and online organizing: can they go together?” The session covered interesting points on the debate between community and online organizers and ways to overcome the resistance within an organization. Campaign: win on specific interests. Online. Recruit. MORE >>

What can an organization crowdsource? There are many platforms that have been launched to help organizations raise funds entirely online with friends, fans and followers in social networks making the ask and contributing smaller amounts but in larger quantities. Get the book here. Crowdsourcing is one of those ways. Action. Featured MORE >>

We’re writing about elements of a social organization (or human organization, as we say in the book) that have been covered in the blogosphere already: transparency, openness, trust, ownership, inclusion, learning…the list goes on. This is fine for doing simple things, but our organizations need deeper learning than that. MORE >>

I’ve been writing the Social Organization column here for a year and a half. I’ve tried to make a distinction between the characteristics of the organizations that are successfully adapting to our new, social world and those that have remained mired in their mechanical approach to organizations and leadership. MORE >>

We really do have a lot in there talking about what it means, as an organization, to become more open, trustworthy, generative, and courageous. And on top of all that content, in the very last chapter, we make an important point: you’re not going to become a more human organization, unless you change. suppose it sounds obvious. MORE >>