4-6+Creating+shared+language+and+talking+about+networks+and+network+impact

===//Holly Minch joined our conversations on the morning of April 6th, listened closely, and then shared with the NNF straw man language for talking about our network work. //===

This seems to be an opportune moment in the lifecycle of the Network of Network Funders to act on these ideas. //What's the communications challenge that prevents us from implementing networked strategies? Why must network advocates act "subversively" or as "stealth weavers" within their own foundation?//
 * It sounds academic
 * It's too touchy-feely, "kumbaya"
 * Funding networks diverts the focus from results
 * Asking people to adopt network principles may require them to change the way they work.
 * Distributed ownership / shared responsibility raises the question of who’s in charge
 * Focusing on process equals not getting anything done
 * For some, the term "network" has a negative connotation, as something from which people are excluded
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Networks run counter to the fad of social entrepreneurship

There are generally two levels of messaging: Enterprise & Persuasion.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">In the context of the NNF COP, most conversations seem to be happening at the **__Enterprise Level__**: //
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Purpose (Why?) //**
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The scope and complexity of the issues facing our communities and the world today are bigger than any one approach alone can solve. Adequate solutions will require many perspectives and approaches.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Complex problems that affect us all will require rich multi-faceted, collective solutions.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The best ideas to solve our problems, help our communities, and change the world will emerge at the intersection of people, perspectives, ideas, information, and innovation.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Strong networks are a means for people with different ideas and/or common concerns to come to shared solutions
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Effective networks, formal or informal, can: broaden the conversation, link / merge parallel / silo’d efforts, deliver relevant resources, support new / emergent ideas and approaches, and create / enhance conditions for change.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">We can do more good better together, through the mutual exchange of value, whether that’s time, resources, or information
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">New solutions require new approaches and new ways of working together
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Impact (So What?) //**
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Strong networks can be a magnetic force, pulling together, aligning, and focusing disparate ideas and diverse people toward common solutions and shared vision for action
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Effective networks can:
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">...Engage more people to greater and better ends (scale and quality).
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">...Take solutions to scale through inclusion, collaboration, and integrity.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">...Result in shared information, shared learning, shared resources, and shared results.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Powerful networks spring from and create more strong connections and strong commitment among stakeholders
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">They rely on and result in shared interests and deep connections
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">They also realign traditional notions of power and control through peer-to-peer engagement.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">In today’s world, connection is power. Networks thrive in the connections between people and ideas, creating more connections and more (shared) power.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Approach (How?) //**
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Strong networks are people powered and technology supported.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Effective networks are self-organizing; everyone contributes and anyone can lead.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Powerful networks are shaped by participation, contribution, and trust.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Network advocates embrace complexity as a means to arrive at simple / elegant outcomes / solutions.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Network members trade certainty and control for shared risk and shared commitment toward greater engagement and better results
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Network is a verb. It’s a behavior driven by values of connectivity and inclusion and relationships and trust.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Networks are organic-ish, and we can speed / strengthen their work by providing support structures and input

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Discussion about Enterprise Messaging: //
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Conversations among participants have focused on the //How?//, less so about the //Why?//, and not at all about the //So What?//
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">There are three factors that go into how we work together (**promise, values, and personality**). The NNF has been speaking mostly about the values that drive us to work together and the personalities that influence how we engage each other. We spoke less about what's in it for network members (the promise).
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Some argued that while the //Why?// and the //So What?// may be intuitive and redundant to members of the NNF COP and other advocates of networks, they are still important to convey to our constituents (e.g., boards) in order to make the case. Without making the case, we may not get the chance to stay in the conversation long enough to have the //How?// conversation.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">“We seem stuck on the dance floor and cannot get to the balcony." What matters most is **relevance and timeliness**, catering messaging to our context and assessing whether we’re ready.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The NNF seems to distinguish between partnerships, collective action, collaboration, and network
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">If the NNF enforces these distinctions, it’s incumbent upon its members to say how these are different; at the same time, would defining these terms be helpful, or would it do more harm?
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">When the terminology isn't clearly defined, individuals who say they are working in a networked way may not be, and individuals who are working in a networked way may not recognize themselves as doing so.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">"Networks" are not nouns or check boxes; rather, they are people and the connections between them. Working with a networked mindset refers to the quality of interconnections between individuals engaged in the network, whether we call them networks, coalitions, partnerships, etc.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">NNF members seem to be playing double duty: advocating for particular networks and advocating for people working differently together. One way to look at networks is as interconnections between people that can be employed for the purpose of different projects.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">There is an aspect of co-creation in networks that's not explicit in these messages. Holly used the term "solving problems" in place of co-creation intentionally, so as to provide bridging language for folks who are more linear thinkers / accustomed to those terms
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">It's not clear that networks provide a "faster" way to do things every time; indeed, expedience may require doing things with fewer people. Moreover, networks do not necessarily guarantee "quality."
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Disagreements over the wording of the messaging statements (above) are indicative of similar problem / challenges that will arise when network members develop their own communications strategy. Communication work is an opportunity to talk about strategy and a way to test the agreement among network members (i.e., seeing where network members are willing to go together).

Holly introduced a method (**//__Persuasion Messaging__//**) that can be used to engage / persuade / motivate their constituents to act:

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">To use this messaging tool, you should: //
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Identify the target audience, or crowd
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Identify what the **"ask"** is, what they want their crowd to do (e.g., adopt a network lens for evaluation). It's often easiest to craft this message first.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Identify **barriers** that stand in the way of the crowd doing what they're asking them to (e.g., risk, control, brand, evaluation, due diligence, etc.). __Choose one__ barrier that is the strongest.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Note: Time and money are expressions of priority
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Articulate a statement that will **motivate** their crowd to act. They can tailor this message from the Purpose statements ("Why?" above)
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">If a network has agreed to certain principles -- and/or if there's enough trust among members of a network -- that in itself may be enough to get network members to act
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">There are different emotions that motivate people to act: fear (becoming irrelevant), urgency (financial crisis), embarrassment, aspiration (having greater impact)... should funders use carrots vs. sticks to convince their constituents to act? Many agreed that "being relevant" was a good way to motivate people to take specific action.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Couple the motivating statement with a **vision** statement that appeals to their crowd. They can tailor this message from the Impact statements ("So What?" above). This motivator should __articulate the payoff in terms of what the crowd cares about__ (what's in it for them vs. what's in it for me).
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Use stories to make any part of the messaging more concrete, e.g., Wikimedia adopted network tools in their evaluation strategy, and this resulted in...
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Proceed in any direction across the wheel, for example, motivator-barrier-ask-vision, ask-barrier-vision-motivator, etc

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Living case studies of the messaging tool in use: //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Example #1
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Crowd //**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">: //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> GEO members who care about networks
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Ask //**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">: //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> GEO members should apply a network lens to evaluation
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Barrier //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">: relevance, aversion to change due to fidelity of traditional model, skepticism of applying a NW lens to evaluation, control, actionability (i.e., lack of tools and / or ability to use them), misunderstanding about networks
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Address most important barrier //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">: I've got some tools to share with you, and they may not require a new toolkit. In fact, so-and-so employed them successfully last fall.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Purpose: //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> You need to know if / how your networks work.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Vision //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">: Scope and complexity demand new approaches
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Persuasion message //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">: "GEO member, hi there, I've got some tools to share with you, and they may not even require you to hire a new evaluator or to acquire a new toolkit! In fact, program officers from so-and-so from X foundation recently used these tools to assess whether the networks in which they were investing were succeeding. Given the scope and complexity of the issues facing our communities today, it's important to determine whether the network solutions we're employing are actually working

Example #2
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Crowd //****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> NNF COP members
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Ask //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">: Engage with Packard's organizational effectiveness wiki
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Purpose //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">: The best ideas to solve our problems will emerge at the intersection of people, perspectives, ideas, information, and innovation; we'll produce better products if we all work together; we’re in this together
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Barriers //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">: Time, lack of awareness (didn't know / forgot about it), lack of knowledge (not sure how it works), questionable value, it's scary to add comments
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Vision //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">: Help a fellow network member and her foundation create a better product; shared information, shared learning, shared results; Helps foundations that deal with OE writ large remain relevant; field building
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0.1pt 0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0in; mso-para-margin-right: 0in; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Persuasion message //**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">: "Fellow NNF COP members, I'm in charge of Packard's wiki on OE, and I'd really appreciate your input on our open evaluation process. I'm sending you the link -- it'll only take 5 minutes, and if you have any questions, I'll help you with it. The best ideas to solve our problems will emerge at the intersection of people, perspectives, ideas; as such, getting your / your foundations input will Packard produce better insights and tools that can help the OE field as a whole."

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