Building Community

Strengths-Based Neighborhood Association Model:
::Take the signature strengths questionnaire.
::Learn about signature strengths.
::Use an Appreciative Inquiry approach.
::Record strengths of members with online tools (example).
::Have conversations about strengths.
::Do planning and projects in ways that optimally engage people's strengths

Community leadership resources:
::Heartland Center: Neighborhood Training:
::Community Leadership Association:

Strengthen Social Networks:
::Saguaro Seminar: civic engagement in America
::Tapping the Power of Social Networks:
::The Wealth of Networks:

Form neighborhood clusters:
::Brush Creek Community Partners - Kansas City
::Neighborhood Coalitions in Portland
::Benson-Ames Alliance in Omaha
---Omaha by Design:
---City of Omaha:
---Neighborhood Center for Greater Omaha:

Community Design Resources:
::Publications from the Mayor's Institute on City Design
::Association for Community Design:
::Project for Public Spaces:

Articles on Community Building:
::Get your community on:
::The endangered list:
::Our public art:
::Our sense of place:
::In Praise of Zealous Nuts:

Catalyzing community lifelong learning:
::Engaging Communities and Campuses:Effective Practices Exchange
::Center for Community Partnerships: U Penn

Community Media and Technology:
::community technology centers' network:
::Community technology by Randal Pinkett:
::Neighborhood documentary: an example from Philly

Maximize the potential of social media: Google & del.icio.us:
Google has tools that make being online more collaborative and productive.
::Google Accounts: Step 1 is to set up an account with Google. This lets you accesss the following tools from one place.
::Gmail: email
::Google Documents & Spreadsheets: create and collaborate online
::Google Calendar: make and share calendars
::Google Reader: brings content from the blogs and news sites you follow into an inbox like tool.
::Blogger: create your own website
::Google Alerts: have Google scour the internet by keywords you select and deliver you an email with its findings as often as you specify.
::Google News: design you own news categories and Google will bring the news you want to your page.
del.icio.us:
::del.icio.us: turns internet browsing into a more social experience and lets you access your favorites anywhere you go.

Cultural economic development:
::What is cultural economic development?
::Cultural economic development in Michigan
::National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture:
::National Arts Strategies:
::Grantmakers in the Arts:
::RAND -Arts:
::Institute for Community Development and the Arts:

Cultural economic development examples:
::Maricopa Partnership for Arts and Culture & Greater Phoenix Economic Council:
::Contessa Says: local creative talent of Madison
::Lincoln Arts Council:
::KCArtswalk: