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What is UW-MANIAC? UW-MANIAC (Madison Area Network for Innovation & Collaboration) represents a network of continued collaborative learning and growth. This unique partnership includes a diverse group of UW-Madison departments and academic perspectives, as well as those from the private and non-profit sector. We host several events a year around a wide variety of topics, including the “Innovation and Collaboration Learning Café Series," a creative learning space that teaches creativity tools in an applied manner, a "Breakfast Series" in which members share inspiring ideas and creative approaches to work, and other opportunities to meet and share ideas, both through face-to-face conversation and virtual dialogue. Feel free to utilize this online community to share reflections, ask questions, incubate an idea, and re-connect with those friendly faces from the other events. For additional information, please contact Harry Webne-Behrman, UW Office of Human Resource Development, at 608-262-9934 or hwebnebehrman@ohr.wisc.edu.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Some of my Favorite Resources

Here's a quick list of some fabulous resources to inspire new thinking and actions for the new year:

1. Co-Intelligence Institute Toolbox
Describes all kinds of change processes, methods, and techniques -- and even provides the backstory, theory and additional resources if you want to go deeper.
http://www.co-intelligence.org/CIPol_ComunityProcesses.html

2. Human System Dynamics Institute
Chaos theory and complexity as applied to working with groups and organizations in meaningful and practical ways.
http://www.hsdinstitute.org/

3. Fostering Sustainable Behavior: Community Based Social Marketing
Contains articles, case studies, and strategies from social change practitioners (with an environmental lens); tools include: attitudes, branding, commitment, communication, convenience, education, feedback, framing, goal setting, incentives, norms, prompts, social diffusion.
http://www.cbsm.com/public/world.lasso

4. NuPolis: Scalable Innovations for Communities
Includes stories about what's working (and what isn't) to ramp up social innovation in the US; also has chapters of an online book called How Social Innovators are Transforming America's Communities.
http://www.cbsm.com/public/world.lasso

5. Social Innovation Exchange
More international in scope, lists case studies and articles in a variety of social change fields.
http://www.socialinnovationexchange.org/

6. UW School of Business: Business, Environment, and Social Responsibility program
This resource page contains all kinds of goodies -- "Books That Changed My Life", "UW Classes Not to be Missed," "Videos" which include lots of TED talk links, and "Things You Can Do To Live More Sustainably."
http://www.bus.wisc.edu/sustainability/resources/

May you be inspired!

Marian Farrior
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