CFMC NWLC 20100927

Social Network Support Project: Network Weaver

Learning Community Network Participation and Engagement: Third in a Series of Four Sessions

Community Foundation for Monterey CountySeptember 27, 2010

Thank youJune Holley of Network Weaving, Monitor Institute, and Packard Foundation

and @Kanter and @eekim 1

Thank you

Harden Foundation!

Lydia, 442.3005

Today’s Workshop

Reconnect and Share Homework

Review of Our Purpose

Facilitation Role of Weavers

Current Issues – Peer Assist?

Tools and Social Media

Next Steps

The invention of tools that facilitate [network] formation is less like ordinary technological change, and more like an event, something that has already happened. As a result, the important questions aren’t about whether these tools will spread or re-shape society, but rather how they will do so.

- Clay Shirky

Today’s Workshop

Reconnect and Share Homework

Review of Our Purpose

Facilitation Role of Weavers

Current Issues – Peer Assist?

Tools and Social Media

Next Steps

Why is CFMC interested in this?

• National trend among nonprofits and philanthropy

• More impact; systems change

Why do we thinkyou might be interested in this?

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Network Participation and Engagement

by whom?

clients, consumers, beneficiaries, community residents

donors, board members

colleagues, peers, businesses, faith-based, elected officials, public agencies

and potential __________ all of the above

Today’s Workshop

Reconnect and Share Homework

Review of Our Purpose

Facilitation Role of Weavers

Current Issues – Peer Assist?

Tools and Social Media

Next Steps

Pre-workshop Survey Results (n=8)

Which statement best describes your facilitation experience and training?

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some exp as facl, no formaltraining

exp as facl, facl training facl training and mentoredothers

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IISC’s Vision of the Future is the emergence of a global “beloved community” with social justice for all and sustainability for the planet.

IISC’s Mission is to ignite and sustain social transformation, catalyze collective action, and build collaborative skill to bring alive our vision of a just and sustainable world.

Facilitative Leadership® Tapping the Power of Participation

The latest developments in leadership practice and theory compel both formal and informal leaders to view leadership as service, respect the value and diversity that each person brings, and share power and decision–making. www.interactioninstitute.org

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Profile of the Facilitative LeaderCopyright, Interaction Associates, Inc., 2010, used with permission

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Seven Practices of Facilitative LeadershipCopyright, Interaction Associates, Inc., 2010, used with permission

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Copyright, Interaction Associates, Inc., 2010, used with permission

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Levels of Involvement in Decision MakingCopyright, Interaction Associates, Inc., 2010, used with permission

Today’s Workshop

Reconnect and Share Homework

Review of Our Purpose

Facilitation Role of Weavers

Current Issues – Peer Assist?

Tools and Social Media

Next Steps

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Peer Assist - Current Issues

• Finding transportation for student field trips

• Fundraising

• Engaging org, schools and others from Serve Day in ongoing partnerships

• Communication, language barriers

• Other?

Today’s Workshop

Reconnect and Share Homework

Review of Our Purpose

Facilitation Role of Weavers

Current Issues – Peer Assist?

Tools and Social Media

Next Steps

Person to Person Networking SkillsBalancing act – which method and when

• Telephone or face to face• Email, IM, text, post, snail mail• Coffee/lunch meetings• Introductions, closing triangles• Connecting through influential people

• Planned accidental meetings

How are nonprofits, public agencies, and foundations using social media technology?

Wiki: http://packard-foundation-oe.wikispaces.com/

http://cpsquare.org/wiki/Technology_for_Communities_project

Blog: http://www.bethkanter.org/

RSS: http://www.salinascity.k12.ca.us/rss.aspx

Examples: Twitter (Chronicle of Philanthropy, Facebook (UWMC, First 5, CF Silicon Valley)

Other examples: Network for Good

Foundations that Tweet, http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/08/foundations-that-tweet-profile-patterns.html

The capacity to learn and improve is the most important indicator of collective intelligence.

- Eugene KimNetworks in an International Context, slideshare

http://cpsquare.org/wiki/Technology_for_Communities_project

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/03/digital-habitats-stewarding-technology-for-communities.html

http://www.salinascity.k12.ca.us/rss.aspx

Pre-workshop Survey Results (n=8)

Which of these social networking sites do you use for work or personal use?

Facebook, 62.50%

LinkedIn, 37.50%Ning, 25%

Googlebuzz, 25%

Plaxo, 12.50%

MySpace, 12.50%

Yahoo, 12.50%

none of the above , 12.50%

Beth Kanter’s Social Media Picking Tools

Listen Engage

Movement Building and

Multi-Channel

GenerateBuzzSocial

Content

Crawl ………..……Walk …….….….. Run ……..………….Flyl

Web 1.0 vs 2.0

www.cfmco.org Management Assistance, workshops

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/03/digital-habitats-stewarding-technology-for-communities.html

Prof Dev Interest in/Use of Social Media

Environment (by work area): Anticipates future comm through social media

Greenfield (by primary field): Use online communications

Today’s Workshop

Reconnect and Share Homework

Review of Our Purpose

Facilitation Role of Weavers

Current Issues – Peer Assist?

Tools and Social Media

Next Steps

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Overall Training Goals

By the end of the four sessions, participants will

• be inspired to work with a network mindset and to continue weaving and building networks

• have a deeper understanding of network theory, as it applies to social networks, and characteristics of a healthy network

• be able to recognize the qualities of network weavers/leaders; recognize and affirm individual weaver qualities and successes

• understand network life cycles

• appreciate the role of evaluating networks and learn how the network can help evaluate its own progress

• have practiced applying weaver practices and shared their challenges and learnings with each other

• have received an introduction to network mapping software

Next Session

October 21 with lunch, 1-5 PMMC Health Dept, 1270 Natividad RdRoom 236A/B (street level)Network Tools