Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Jul 29 2008 Online Community Purpose Checklist Published by Nancy White It is helpful to think about what you want to accomplish and how, with an online group or community. Or drawing in new people? MORE >>

SAP StreamWork published a case study on how Direct Relief International is using SAP StreamWork for collaborative decision-making : " Humanitarian aid organization Direct Relief International has been bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to people affected by poverty, disaster or civil unrest for more than 60 years. MORE >>

As fewer and fewer people are empowered to make decisions, fewer and fewer people feel they have control over their lives.  People who benefit from centralized power are more comfortable when they know where those who are controlled are and what they are doing. Yet businesses repeatedly limit people’s movements.  MORE >>

One of the most common questions people ask me is why do people participate in online communities. For some, the act of logging onto a computer network and having a conversation with someone you have never met seems utterly foreign to some, but these are often the same people who will happily chat up a stranger in the grocery line. MORE >>

If there’s such a thing as an organizational membrane, it needs to be able to respond both logically  and emotionally to a world deeply shaped by the thoughts and actions of real people. That’s right, I’m saying that  the ‘membrane’ that surrounds the organization and connects it with its environment -  is people. MORE >>