Leading offline groups can be challenging. These three tips make it easier. Participants in open source communities collaborate in online environments differently than they do… Read More »3 tips for helping creative people work openly
My colleague Amrekha has been developing some materials around the concept of courage. It has me thinking. A lot. I’ve mentioned courage in other posts:… Read More »Open Courage
I originally wrote this article for Opensource.com Open organizations explicitly invite participation from external communities, because these organizations know their products and programs are world… Read More »How to run a Community Call
If all the sand in the Sahara is in the Sahara, and you have a mechanism to measure the exact shape of a single grain… Read More »Privacy/Security and Bullying
One of the things I know about open source and open communities is that as much as we want to break down silos, we have… Read More »Reach outside the silo
Here’s an idea: let’s all move to Colonial Williamsburg and churn some butter. Or maybe we should all buy horses. Wait, wait, I’ve got an… Read More »The No Tech School
This past week I spent three days hanging out with the activists and thinkers who attended the Open Campaigns Camp. Participants included loads of folks… Read More »Open is an attitude
There are people in the world who think that their world vision is better than yours. People allow their cultural and societal norms to dictate… Read More »“Character Education” with quotes.
Missing context? Catch up with recent posts tagged with “Methods & Theories”. A couple weeks ago, in the Open Web Leadership call we talked about… Read More »Collapsing Open Leadership Strands
Here’s another stab at trying to nail down the competencies and topics leaders in the open community need to have and an organizing structure for… Read More »Iterating organizing structures