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By Michael C. Gilbert, et al
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This report contains five feature articles on the cutting edge of challenges and opportunities facing organizations who are considering collaboration in the modern, networked society. It compiles 91 of the best collaboration resources from Nonprofit Online News, organized into 19 categories, including Social Software, Online Strategies, Knowledge Management, and Unifying Issues.
There is no avoiding the question of collaboration between organizations. Funders are looking at organizations and wondering out loud why they don’t work together. The issues we work on are too big for us to tackle alone. The Internet itself puts organizations that were previously isolated by geography into each other’s operational back yards. But collaboration in anything but name only is not simple. With a culture of scarcity at work for most nonprofits, it’s hard to develop models of cooperation that don’t open up worries about funding, credit, and other resources.
A systems perspective provides a valuable step back from the worries and pressures related to collaboration and, in so doing, allows us to see meaningful opportunities and challenges. The Internet is a great medium for nurturing systems thinking and often provides the means for implementing the corresponding systems vision. As a result, the last few years have brought forth some excellent contributions to our understanding of organizational cooperation in civil society.
We’ve assembled five superb contributions to the field in the form of the five lead articles of this publication. The most modest of these is my own, “A Practical Approach to Collaboration”, which suggests that we don’t often have to agree on very much in order to collaborate effectively and that sometimes the best opportunities are operational in nature.
Your interest in this topic will help move our sector forward. In our own simple efforts toward fruitful collaboration, we hope that our work will contribute to yours.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ………… 7
Introduction ………… 8
A Practical Approach to Collaboration, by Michael C. Gilbert ………… 9
Weaving Our Strategies Together, by Jon Ramer and Greg Steltenpohl, The Interra Project ………… 12
Fifteen Tips for Remote Collaboration, by Indi Young ………… 24
ThinkCycle: Supporting Open Collaboration and Sustainable Engineering in Education,
by: Nitin Sawhney, Timothy Prestero, Yael Maguire and Saul Griffith …………. 28
Collaborative Inquiry Among Grant Makers and Grantees, by Craig McGarvey ………… 41
About Michael C. Gilbert ………… 53
About the Contributing Authors ………… 54
- Annotated Resources ………… 56
Assistance Providers ………… 57
Case Studies ………… 59
Civil Society ………… 60
Cross Sector ………… 61
Community Building ………… 61
Conferences ………… 62
Distributed Environments ………… 63
Email ………… 64
International ………… 65
Knowledge Management ………… 67
Network Effects ………… 70
Online Strategies ………… 72
Open Source ………… 75
Planning ………… 76
Self Organization ………… 77
Social Capital ………… 78
Social Software ………… 79
Unifying Issues ………… 83
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