Resource Type: Tool | Author: Knight Foundation
What can a community do to measure the quality of its information environment, identify its information needs and take steps to build a more robust news and information ecosystem?
Resource Type: Podcast | Speaker: Tierney Smith
Canada shares about the connection between Technology and Social Media for Community Engagement. She reveals tips and tricks for how organizations can use these "new" tools to enhance their leadership, communities and engagement efforts.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Meg Wheatley
In this podcast, Paul Born speaks with Meg Wheatley about some of the experiences that shaped her earliest beliefs and her understanding of community, challenging us to re-think some more traditional concepts and approaches.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Etienne Wenger
In this podcast, Etienne Wenger, the globally recognized thought-leader on communities of practice, shares his thoughts on learning, knowledge, cultivating communities of practice and their role in collaborations.
Resource Type: Podcast | Speaker: Tracy Smyth and Tammy Dewar
In this podcast, Tracy Smyth and Tammy Dewar of Raising the Village Consulting share about the process of engaging a community. You will hear about building and strengthening connections between village members. Tracy and Tammy talk about brain based engagement as a way to maximize community...
Resource Type: Podcast | Speaker: Don Lenihan
In this podcast, Don shares several innovative approaches to community engagement and the lessons learned about citizen engagement in government policy process. Listen in as Don shares some principles for governments to consider when engaging the public.
Resource Type: Report | Author: Headwaters Communities in Action
This Report, grounded in extensive citizen input, was created as a catalyst for positive community change and regional collaboration in Dufferin County and the Town of Caledon.
Resource Type: Publication | Author: Don Lenihan
Rethinking the public policy process for the 21st century
Resource Type: Tool | Authors: Christina Baldwin & Ann Linnea
This excerpt from the book, The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair provides an overview of the fundamental components of effectively hosting a circle dialogue.
A Step by Step Guide to Designing and Cultivating Communities of Practice
Resource Type: Publication | Author: Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium
Principles of Community Engagement provides health professionals, researchers, and community-based organizations with a science base and practical guidance for engaging partners in projects. This primer provides tools for those who are leading efforts to improve population health through...
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Brenda Zimmerman
Complexity suggests that relationships between parts are more important than the parts themselves. Learn more in this seminar that explores ‘wicked questions’, leadership, social innovation and complex systems thinking.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Brenda Zimmerman
In this seminar, Brenda Zimmerman explores the challenges and opportunities inherent to working in complex systems. She looks at some key characteristics of leadership in uncertain times, and lays out several important principles for leading in complex systems.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speaker: Eric Young
Communities have powerful stories to tell. It is in the sharing of these stories that great change can happen. This seminar, deepens our understanding of community and the role of place and belonging in movements of change.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Speakers: Ann Barrett et al
This second of a three-part audio seminar series explores how to facilitate the meaningful participation of low-income individuals in leadership roles at both grassroots and more formal levels.
