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October 2006 Edition

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October 2006: This issue is rich with vision and practical value. Mark Cannon and Amy Edmondson offer solid analysis and a matrix of solutions to the problem we have with facing and learning from failure. This is one of the most important knowledge management issues facing the sector, especially in philanthropy. Nancy White contributes a precise and thoughtful dissection of several models of online community. Tom Stafford identifies exactly why email can be addictive and what to do about it. Michael Gilbert's contribution this month includes some thoughts about network centric philanthropy that he had in the wake of conducting an interest survey about the use of RSS feeds for grants information. His Quicksheet this month is one he should have done a long time ago: A description of the evolution of online fundraising and what its third stage might look like. Finally, there are a score of annotated resources in as many categories.

Table of Contents

 
8 - Letter From the Editor
9 - Contributors

Articles:

10 - Toward Network-Centric Philanthropy
By Michael C. Gilbert
This Summer, we completed a survey of over 600 people involved in a broad range of roles and responsibilities in civil society. In addition to widespread support for the syndication of grants information through an open system, we discovered the glimmers of the nuts and bolts of the future of philanthropy.

13 - Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail
By Amy Edmondson and Mark Cannon
Organizations can actively use failure to foster improvement and innovation. The authors look at the social and technical barriers and enablers of identifying failure, analyzing failure, and experimentation.

37 - Blogs and Community
By Nancy White
The patterns of online community have evolved since the days of bulletin boards, newsgroups, and mailing lists. This paper lays out the distinctions and relationships between bounded environments and the newer person-centric and emergent environments and asks some insightful questions about the nature of community in those contexts.

58 - Why Email is Addictive (and What To Do About It)
By Tom Stafford
For all its virtues, email -- because it follows the natural patterns of operant conditioning -- is addictive. The author looks at what that means and how to beat the addiction.

Other Resources:

63 - Quicksheet: The Third Stage of Online Fundraising
64 - News
88 - Classifieds

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