Post-Conference Check Up on the Health of the Communications Network
Post from the 2011 Conference in Boston
By Dan Brady, Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
When I led the Group Therapy session “Culture Shift: Learning to Act as a Network,” based on the Connected Citizens report released by the Knight Foundation and the Monitor Institute, there was one area that we didn’t touch on, but now, with the conference behind me, it seems an appropriate point of reflection.
Online Engagement, “Der Fisch” and the Nervous Foundation
Post from the 2011 Conference in Boston
by Chris Wolz, Forum One Communications
Two observations from Communications Network conference: exciting opportunities to effect social change using online engagement make many foundations nervous, and the old German expression “Der Fisch stinkt vom Kopf her” has new applicability in this online age.
