On May 14, 2014, Creating the Future held its first planning session for our own community engagement plan. (You can watch / listen to that meeting here, and follow along the tweet stream.) We followed the simple steps in this “How to Craft a Community Engagement Plan” blog post. 1) Determine what you want the … Read more
To skip directly to the meeting, head to the bottom of this post. The meeting will appear there at 1pm PT on May 14th. If we're a few minutes late, please be patient – like all meetings everywhere, some start late. To participate, tweet to the hashtag #CTFuture. See you there! How can we find … Read more
The next planning meeting for the joint PANO / Creating the Future Conference will happen right here on Tuesday, Febraury 11 at 1pm ET. Scroll to the bottom of this post to watch it live. To participate, tweet to the hashtag #CTFuture. During the last meeting of the Conference Planning Team, we talked about the … Read more
To watch / participate in the debrief of this tour, skip to the bottom of this post. What is possible when a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals decide they want their communities to thrive? Margaret Mead’s quote repeatedly ran through our heads this month, as Creating the Future was hosted in communities throughout … Read more
Today's meeting of the Faculty Development team is happening right here! The video will appear below when the meeting starts (Friday, June 28th at 1pm Pacific time (NA)). Tweet to participate at the hashtag #CTFuture. See you there!
The next meeting of our Faculty Development team will be Friday May 31 at 4pm ET / 1pm PT (North America). Topic is described in full here, along with notes from our previous meeting (and links to past videos). To watch, just stay tuned at this post, and the video will appear (if it's a … Read more
As we continue to home in on the qualities and proficiencies that will be required for faculty to teach on behalf of Creating the Future, our discussions become more and more rich. That is not unusual. In our experience, when we talk about qualifications (i.e. indicators of qualities and proficiencies), that discussion is often rooted … Read more
We are hereby giving ourselves permission to write some really bad taglines for Creating the Future! So mark your calendars for Tuesday, May 28 at 1pm Pacific time (NA) to help us come up with some zingers! Why "bad taglines"? To open up our creativity, to allow the GOOD taglines to surface without feeling forced. … Read more
For the very first time in their history, BoardSource is opening their 2013 conference to speakers outside their own realm. Which means that pretty much everyone remotely related to boards and governance is spending this week writing a proposal to present at the BoardSource conference – including us! Several of Creating the Future’s governance geeks … Read more
As part of our ongoing efforts to find language and clarity about how to talk about Creating the Future's mission and work, tomorrow (Wednesday, April 10) we will spend time again with two brilliant Branding / Strategy experts, Dave Svet (Spur Communications) and Zach Braiker (Refine and Focus). The meeting will begin at 1pm Pacific … Read more