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Gracious Space: A Practical Guide for Working Better Together

Patricia Hughes' Gracious Space: A Practical Guide for Working Better Together is an elegant little book published by the Center for Ethical Leadership. The book pulls together concepts of dialogue, learning, and trust building into a common framework for leadership and management. The book is full of concepts that will be familiar to anyone who practices techniques such as Appreciative Inquiry or Active Listening, but given how rarely these work their way into the day to day management of most organizations, I am always looking for frameworks such as this. Posted: 10/9/05; 5:55:03 PM #

Estrategies Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit

Aref Adamal, Bruno Lanvin, and Robert Schware have published an Estrategies Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit (80 page PDF). The focus of their methods are on holding national ICT strategies meant to alleviate poverty to some standards of effectiveness. Too many ICT for development projects, in this country and internationally, lack this kind of rigor. The toolkit looks to incorporate monitoring and evaluation into fifty different strategies. Posted: 10/9/05; 5:50:18 PM #

An Argument for Small Business Blogging

Chris Campbell has written a great Argument for Small Business Blogging. Almost all of his reasoning applies to nonprofits in equal measure. Of course, I'm afraid that I'm starting to see nonprofits think that they "need a weblog" the same way they "needed a website" a few years ago. Maybe articles like this can help keep their decisions grounded in their communication goals. Posted: 10/9/05; 5:43:57 PM #

Hurricane Katrina: Innovative Information and Communications Responses

Notes from last week's webinar on Hurricane Katrina: Innovative Information and Communications Responses are now online. I was unable to hear the webinar since Skype evidently isn't very reliable in trme of tone generation used to log in to the webinar service and the video consisted of static images of the speaker's names and affiliations, so I'm really pleased to read these. There are lots of sound ideas here, many of which I'm sure will be developed at the Oct. 17, 2005 conference on ICT responses to disasters. Posted: 10/9/05; 5:40:11 PM #

Dialogues on Civic Philanthropy: Accountability
	I've been paying attention to the Dialogues on Civic Philanthropy, the next round of which will be held on October 20, 2005. Opinion pieces and transcripts from the May 19, 2005 dialogues on accountability in philanthropy are available. They are also open to broader public comment on the web site. Posted: 10/9/05; 5:35:07 PM #

2005 Right Livelihood Award

The 2005 Right Livelihood Award goes to activists from Mexico, Canada, Malaysia, and Botswana. The award is presented annually in the Swedish Parliament to winners chosen by a remarkable international jury. It was founded in 1980 after the Nobel Foundation turned down Jakob von Uexkull's proposal to fund awards for ecology and anti-poverty work. This year's winners have worked on issues including democratic water rights, historical preservation, the rights of indigenous people, and preventing violence against women. Posted: 10/9/05; 5:31:18 PM #