Newsletter #1 # COMversum #1 COLLABORATION Hello! Thanks for joint this newsletter. Once or twice a month, we will share with you, what we have being doing at Micelio, list of links, articles, books, videos, podcasts and tool that caught our attention. ###### tags: `Collaboration, Knowledge, Newsletter` ## :memo: Where do We start? The idea of Knowledge Inventory is to provide quick, easy access to a growing collection of valuables informations, with links to articles, books, tools that could help a vibrant group of practitioners who actively facilitate knowledge capture, storage, reuse and sharing across their organization. If you have more to add, please write to us [info] [at] [micelio] [dot] [pt] . ### Sites 1. The [Community Tool Box](https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents) is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change. It offers thousands of pages of tips and tools for taking action in communities. 1. [Learning-Organization](https://appel.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Learning-Organization.pdf) is one that acquires knowledge and innovates fast enough to survive and thrive in a rapidly changing environment by embracing characteristics that encourage, support and promote participation. 1. [How to Welcome & Engage People in Community Spaces](https://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-welcome-and-engage-people-in-community-spaces) Why do some community spaces thrive while others struggle or fail? A lot of it comes down to how people are welcomed. 1. [Community Rule](http://communityrule.info/) - a governance toolkit for great communities, featuring templates for many different approaches to decision-making. 1. [Art of Hosting (Conversations That Matter)](http://www.artofhosting.org) The Art of Hosting is an approach to leadership that scales up from the personal to the systemic using personal practice, dialogue, facilitation and the co-creation of innovation to address complex challenges. 1. [SolidarityNYC](http://solidaritynyc.org/#/) connects, supports, and promotes New York City’s solidarity economy. The solidarity economy meets human needs through economic activities–like the production and exchange of goods and services–that reinforce values of justice, ecological sustainability, cooperation, and democracy. ### Handbooks Examples of decentralised organisations that have a public, transparent, well-documented handbook that explains how they work (e.g. decision making, roles, communications tools, etc) [source](https://hackmd.io/@yHk1snI9T9SNpiFu2o17oA/Skh_dXNbE?type=view) 1. The Loomio Co-op [Handbook](https://loomio.coop/) 1. The [Enspiral Handbook](http://handbook.enspiral.com/) explains how we self-govern with around 200 people. 1. Platform is an arts /education / research /activism org. No public handbook, but their [Social Justice Waging System](https://platformlondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/social-justice-waging-system-dec-2005.pdf) is impressive. 1. Guide to the [Extinction Rebellion UK self-organising system](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V708TO8N96vNvG0husfFnv9aY3dVcoE8Y3Z8t7jhL_A/edit) ### Toolkits, Books 1. [Future Togetherness Handbook](https://www.notion.so/Future-Togetherness-Handbook-3ea8b4d78fbc47028f4854ec052e7316) - a wiki full of Practices for Community Resilience and Vision curated by Human Systems 1. [DIY](https://diytoolkit.org/tools/) Collection of the best, practical social inovation tools in one place. 1. [Nesta Collective Intelligence Design Playbook](https://www.nesta.org.uk/toolkit/collective-intelligence-design-playbook/) - tools, tactics and methods to harness the power of people, data and technology to solve global challenges. 1. [Reinventing Work] (https://www.reinventing.work/home) co-founder Mark Eddleston has collated his favourite self-management & new ways of working resources. 1. [The Toolbox Toolbox:](http://www.toolboxtoolbox.com/index.html) a curated list of the best analogue and digital toolboxes and methods from companies, institutions and thinkers. 1. [Reinventing Organisations][http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/] by Frederic Laloux is a really influential book sharing case studies of large organisations in different sectors, successfully operating without centralised management systems. Good wiki too. 1. [Insights for the Journey](https://thejourney.reinventingorganizations.com/videos.html) – video series to accompany the Reinventing Organizations book by Laloux 1. [Sociocracy 3.0](https://sociocracy30.org/) – a free & open guide to developing agile, resilient, consent-based orgs 1. [Patterns for cooperative networks and associations:](https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/patterns-cooperative-networks-and-associations) A typology of structures for cooperative association. ### Tools 1. [Confluence](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence) is a collaboration wiki tool used to help teams to collaborate and share knowledge efficiently. 1. [Atlassian](https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook) Team Playbook - toolkit for effective self-managed teams, by the makers of Trello. 1. [Repair Cafés](https://repaircafe.org/) are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). - Auto-generated Table of Content [ToC]