This is a really helpful approach that can also work for other companies. I think deploying more intentional communications and influence is key to also build more agile businesses, multiplying both sources and outcomes of change, building a sustainable ecosystem that moves swiftly around shared and understood needs for transformation.
You raise a great point about these tools being used in and out of the nonprofit sector. Influence, as a human tool, is used in all personal and professional spheres , and is a critical tool for sustaining impact and ultimately transforming a problem. Thanks for your comment.
This series of articles is important and I hope it’s attracting readers from philanthropic, non profit, and volunteer sectors. All can take a role in influencing actions of others.
In Step 1 you wrote “It is helpful to begin with a comprehensive mapping of all who have a role” I think this is essential. In this article I show a map of more than 2000 links in my web library, which represents people who are interested in the well-being of youth born or living in high poverty of the US. http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/2014/11/tutormentor-web-library-aims-to-support.html
In this map I show several dozen organizations in Chicago region who play intermediary roles of bringing people together and attempting to influence actions that support youth and families. http://cmapspublic.ihmc.us/rid=1KJ51SZKL-1QQZ4B7-25R2/Youth Networks_in_Chicago.cmap
I point to these in order to emphasize a point. To influence people it helps to have a high profile, or deep pocked supporters. Or to be able to find ways to be consistent in your efforts for many years. Just collecting the information of “who is involved” and maintaining it is a huge, on-going challenge. Using this information to share ideas, draw people together, encourage collaboration, etc. is another huge expense.
I’ve never found consistent support for this effort in Chicago, yet have been applying whatever time, talent and dollars I could find to building the knowledge base that is needed to support collective efforts. Browse the web sites of the intermediaries I point to and see if they host similar maps on their own sites. Many who are much better funded have not focused on mapping the network of “all who should be involved” thus the range of people they influence is probably less than it needs to be.
Because every major city in the USA has pockets of concentrated poverty, the information I share could be part of the knowledge based used by “influencers” in those other cities and their resources and talent could be helping me and others like me, build and maintain this type of information base. I hope this series of articles helps us connect.
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BY We Are Innovation
ON October 30, 2014 08:06 AM
This is a really helpful approach that can also work for other companies. I think deploying more intentional communications and influence is key to also build more agile businesses, multiplying both sources and outcomes of change, building a sustainable ecosystem that moves swiftly around shared and understood needs for transformation.
BY Sara Brenner
ON November 5, 2014 06:53 PM
You raise a great point about these tools being used in and out of the nonprofit sector. Influence, as a human tool, is used in all personal and professional spheres , and is a critical tool for sustaining impact and ultimately transforming a problem. Thanks for your comment.
BY Sergey Yatsenko
ON November 9, 2014 07:42 AM
The Value of Intentional Influence determine the new Vision of Business Opportunity .
BY Daniel F. Bassill
ON November 14, 2014 07:52 AM
This series of articles is important and I hope it’s attracting readers from philanthropic, non profit, and volunteer sectors. All can take a role in influencing actions of others.
In Step 1 you wrote “It is helpful to begin with a comprehensive mapping of all who have a role” I think this is essential. In this article I show a map of more than 2000 links in my web library, which represents people who are interested in the well-being of youth born or living in high poverty of the US. http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/2014/11/tutormentor-web-library-aims-to-support.html
In this map I show several dozen organizations in Chicago region who play intermediary roles of bringing people together and attempting to influence actions that support youth and families. http://cmapspublic.ihmc.us/rid=1KJ51SZKL-1QQZ4B7-25R2/Youth Networks_in_Chicago.cmap
I point to these in order to emphasize a point. To influence people it helps to have a high profile, or deep pocked supporters. Or to be able to find ways to be consistent in your efforts for many years. Just collecting the information of “who is involved” and maintaining it is a huge, on-going challenge. Using this information to share ideas, draw people together, encourage collaboration, etc. is another huge expense.
I’ve never found consistent support for this effort in Chicago, yet have been applying whatever time, talent and dollars I could find to building the knowledge base that is needed to support collective efforts. Browse the web sites of the intermediaries I point to and see if they host similar maps on their own sites. Many who are much better funded have not focused on mapping the network of “all who should be involved” thus the range of people they influence is probably less than it needs to be.
Because every major city in the USA has pockets of concentrated poverty, the information I share could be part of the knowledge based used by “influencers” in those other cities and their resources and talent could be helping me and others like me, build and maintain this type of information base. I hope this series of articles helps us connect.