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Tue, Feb 06, 2007

February 2007 Update #

A month has passed, and the blog has been silent, but the brain has not. Time to start dumping again. But before I begin, a quick synopsis: (LR8)

The month started off inauspiciously, with a catastrophic system failure that occurred over the holidays. Quite the story. I hope to tell it someday. (LR9)
Last year, I joined the board of the Leadership Learning Community (LLC). It was an unusual move on my part, since I was also in the process of clearing commitments off my list in order to focus more on my higher-level goals. In the midst of saying no to many, many people, I found myself saying yes to LLC. We had our first 2007 board meeting earlier this month, and I participated in their subsequent learning circles. Let's just say I have no regrets. A week with these folks generated enough thoughts to fill a thousand blog posts. (LRA)
This past week, I co-facilitated a three day Lunar Dust Workshop for NASA, using DialogMapping and Compendium. It was an unbelievable experience, also worth a thousand blog posts. For now, check out some pictures. (LRB)
For the past few months, I've been actively involved with a project called GrantsFire. The project's goal is modest: Make foundations and nonprofits more transparent and collaborative. How? For starters, by getting foundations to publish their grants as microformats. I've hinted about the project before, and I'll have much more to say soon. (LRC)
For the past year, I've been helping reinvent IdentityCommons. Again, I haven't blogged much about it, but I've certainly talked a lot about it. Not only are we playing an important role in the increasingly hot Internet identity space, we're also embodying a lot of important ideas about facilitating networks and catalyzing collaboration. (LRD)

In addition to a flood of blog posts, other things to look forward to this month include: (LRE)

The Wikithon tomorrow, hosted at SocialText in PaloAlto. ChrisDent and other excellent folks will be there, as will I. It will be a partial substitute for me missing out on RecentChangesCamp this past weekend in Portland. (LRF)
The 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit, hosted by Aspiration. AllenGunn has been envisioning this event for over two years, and it's wonderful to see his vision come to fruition. There are gonna be some interesting conversations there, I assure you. (LRG)

/blueoxen | Posted at 6:35pm

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