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May 24, 2010

Case Study: Development Swarm in Kibera

http://bit.ly/9wcZyX – from Kenya, a development swarm “Inspired by Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen Fund” – in Kibera. What do you think of this case study?

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March 6, 2010

Assessing a potential blog entry

As a case study for assessing your work, let’s look at how I decide on what I’m going to write about on this blog. My ultimate goal is to see 50,000 pioneer teams deployed long-term into cross-cultural situations among unreached people groups, each of which develop healthy, sufficient, sustainable ministries that can and do impact [...]

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February 17, 2010

Buzz: Google’s Game-Changing Instant “Crowd”

Recently, Google has launched “Buzz,” it’s new social networking platform. The response has been varied, but here are two articles I think capture why Buzz in my opinion will be a long term success. Google Buzz has completely changed the game: here’s how How Google went into “code red” and saved Google Buzz I am [...]

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January 13, 2010

Swarm: Anarchists in Berlin burn cars

The Guardian reports on a swarm in Berlin: a band of leftwing car arsonists that burned 216 luxury cars in 2009 and 135 in 2008. This swarm has in turned sparked a swarmish “past time” (with an obscure website, “Burning Cars”) spotting the attacks. “No single group is believed to be behind the attacks” – [...]

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January 29, 2009

Swarm Case Study: YWAM

Think swarms can’t work in missions? Think again. There are swarms all around us. Youth With a Mission is a classic example, and the easiest because lots of people wonder whether YWAM has any structure at all. It does, clearly – but only if you think of it in swarmish terms. Let’s break it down: [...]

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July 16, 2008

A dozen case studies on decentralization

Index to Case Studies • Alcoholics Anonymous. A decentralized organization: anyone can set up a chapter, which follows a standard meeting format in order to accomplish a shared plausible promise (The Starfish and the Spider). • Apache Indians in the United States. A decentralized state which could not be conquered by the hierarchical armies under [...]

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May 1, 1996

Learning from the campaign to eradicate polio

Many secular organizations have their own global causes. By examining their successes and failures, we can learn new techniques to help us in our own Commission.

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