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Search4Dev - Digital publications from Dutch development organizationsSearch4Dev is an online library for digital documents from Dutch development organizations. This website offers quick and easy access to these documents. You can find a list of participating organizations by choosing the browse option in the left menu. This option also offers you the ...
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Four Lessons from Y-Combinator's Fresh Approach to InnovationEven large corporations need to innovate like start-ups when resources and time become scarce. Here are four tips for innovating in a tough economy: 1. Forget the big budget. Innovation doesn't have to cost a lot. Rely on open-source software, online market research tools, and virtual ...
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Sunrise Off-Grid - Transition GatheringThe time has come to embrace solutions. Whether we face the End of the Age of Oil or the End of Time itself, our duty as stewards of Planet Earth is to consciously step forward into a new world, forging the future and reconnecting with our Home. In the face of economic and ecological disaster, ...
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The Freeconomy Community - Promoting Skillsharing, Learn Skills, share tools, save money and make great new friendsThe Freeconomy Community's aim is to help reconnect people in their local communities through the simple act of sharing. Not only is sharing our resources better for the environment, it saves you money and builds friendships with those people who live closest to you. It is what we call a ...
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Net-Map Toolbox - Influence Mapping of Social NetworksNet-Map is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes (Net-Map Brochure: 679 KB). By creating Influence Network Maps, individuals and groups can clarify their own view of a situation, ...
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Leadership in a Connected World - Vertigo and the Intentional InhabitantVertigo is a state caused by being out of balance in relation to your environment. Moving from a traditional environment to a network or connected environment can cause a kind of vertigo, because the environment is so radically different. It operates by different rules and responds to different ...
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Community Radio Handbook - UNESCOCommunity radio is a social process or event in which members of the community associate together to design programmes and produce and air them, thus taking on the primary role of actors in their own destiny, whether this be for something as common as mending fences in the neighbourhood, or a ...
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why local firstSignificantly More Money Re-Circulates In Greater Grand Rapids When Purchases Are Made At Locally, Owned, Rather Than Nationally Owned, Businesses. Money Is Kept In The Community Because Locally-Owned Businesses Often Purchase From Other Local Businesses, Service Providers And Farms. Purchasing ...
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Community Organizing Toolkit (english and español)The Toolkit is a set of resources that supports face-to-face training for residents and community leaders. The computer-based component (the "Organizing Game") is used to introduce concepts, prompt discussion, and allow residents to practice skills in a safe, non-threatening environment. The ...
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People and Social NetworksSocial networks don’t exist without people and their relationships - and everyone is different in various ways. That means creating good networks involves understanding how people differ. The diagram suggests that people differ in what they are good at, their interests, their attitudes - and ...
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