WiserEarth Blog

Avinash Kaushik has written an excellent book on how to use free and easy-to-use tools for measuring your website’s performance. Unlike other authors, who are fixated on site visit numbers, Kaushik wants you to develop a well rounded perspective that includes: the voice of your customers, why and how people are actually using your site, and how you are doing versus the competition. His approach will help you gain powerful insights. › Continue reading…

Eugene Kim of Blue Oxen Associates, and a WiserEarth advisor, shares his thoughts on the real difference between Online and Face-to-face collaboration. It all comes down to ‘artifacts’ – those being the objects that you create to record and conduct your interaction. › Continue reading…

You can gain great insights by viewing your work as part of a network. Here’s a simple exercise that can get you started developing the new mindset. It’s an adaptation of work from June Holley and The Monitor Institute. We think you’ll find it useful. › Continue reading…

350.org achieved one of the most widespread days of political action in history on October 24th. Its success is one of the best illustrations yet of a new model of organizing that goes beyond traditional membership organizations towards a networked movement. › Continue reading…

In this 5th Issue of our community newsletter we focus on climate justice, compassion, knowledge, and WiserEarth ‘hotspots’. › Continue reading…

New Global Citizens is working to educate a generation of young people about global challenges, directly connect them with grassroots locally-led projects around the world, and mobilize them to become an instrumental force. NGC is using WiserEarth groups so their student teams can talk directly with their NGOs. Director of Partnerships of NGC, Jennifer Vollmann, took some time out to share her work with us. › Continue reading…

Chances are that your organization’s success is reliant on building and maintaining healthy inter-personal and inter-organizational networks. But do you have any idea whether they are ‘healthy’? Can you think of an effective way to improve them? Fortunately for us, The Monitor Institute has just released a helpful new tool: ‘The Healthy Network Diagnostic’. › Continue reading…

We’d like to share the story of Katie Young, who has been using WiserEarth to link up with our extensive permaculture community. In one month, she’s off to New Zealand to work on organic farms through WWOOF, to pursue her interest in sustainable agriculture and to tell a really good story. What drives her? Read on and get inspired! › Continue reading…