Appreciative Inquiry Annotations Blog

A group of consultants from Appreciative Inquiry Consulting has started blogging at . . .

Appreciative Inquiry Annotations

Drop by to welcome them to the blogosphere!

Knowledge Productivity

While in Brussels during December 2005 (can it have been that long ago?), MPOD students met with a group of consultants from Kessels & Smit (Dutch here). The consultants generously shared their action research projects with us, and it was a wonderful and memorable exchange among peers.

Among the consultants we met was Suzanne Verdonschot. Suzanne has recently developed a web site and an accompanying blog in English. She's providing a smorgasbord of resources - everything from interesting upcoming conferences (international) to reflections on readings and professional experience. Check it out!

Ode

If you've never seen it, you might want to check out Ode magazine. It is published in Dutch, English, and Portuguese. In their own words,

Ode is an independent magazine about the people and ideas that are changing the world.

Connectedness

Social Network Analysis is one of the topics of interest to at least a few CIGO and MPOD students. This morning I stumbled on a blog that points to several resources for visualizing social networks:

Connectedness

Facilitator Development Network

For those with an interest in improving their facilitation skills, this site appears to be an aggregator for training courses being offered around the world.

Facilitator Development Network

BAWBlog

As part of the program, MPOD students participate in the World Inquiry sponsored by the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit (BAWB).

Now Nadya of the BAWB has started blogging! Stop in at BAWBlog and welcome her to the "Blogosphere."

Visual Complexity

This site depicts hundreds of interesting visual representations of complex systems. It takes awhile to load the front page, so if you're on a dialup connection - be prepared!

I've also selected one beautiful image and linked to it here. It's called the Spherical Surface of Dialogue.