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August 23, 2009 by Patti

Hidden Talents of Imaginary Friends

“Imaginary friends” is the term Nancy White has used to describe the hundreds of people she has developed relationships with in our shared virtual spaces. They are presumably not imaginary once we’ve met them as we have seen the flesh and blood. But we still cannot “imagine” the depth of people we barely know. This [...]

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August 13, 2009 by Patti

Network Leadership

Via Beth Kanter, I am reading today an essay on network leadership by Bill Traynor, executive director of Lawrence Community Works. I had the pleasure of meeting Bill last fall at a regional nonprofit event, and was literally blown away by his success building a network of stakeholders and small groups in Lawrence, MA focusing [...]