{"id":412,"date":"2004-08-31T04:17:58","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T10:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/08\/31\/a-whole-new-approach\/"},"modified":"2005-10-05T16:41:33","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T21:41:33","slug":"a-whole-new-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/08\/31\/a-whole-new-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"A Whole New Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Originally posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/small-change-news\/\">sCNN &#8211; the smallChangeNewsNetwork<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Sunday night I had a chance to facilitate an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/ost\">OpenSpace<\/a> meeting for a local church group.  While they were doing their work, I took advantage of the creative buzz in the room to start sketching out the answers to the four big questions we&#8217;d identified recently as the core project template:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">What do we see? What do we want? What do we have?<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">What do we need?<\/span>  The process did much to shake up my thinking and surface some overwhelm, too.  This did much to undermine the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/giving\/givingwiki.cgi?GivingMarket\/MembersWebsite\">MembersWebsite<\/a> approach to implementation, in favor of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/giving\/givingwiki.cgi?GivingMarket\/WeblogDirectory\">WeblogDirectory<\/a> approach.  In a later iteration of these questions, I rolled the first two together and added a new fourth:  <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">What will we do?<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Still swimming in the openness of these four, a more focused list has been taking shape on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/giving\/givingwiki.cgi?GivingMarket\/StrategicGivingQuestions\">StrategicGivingQuestions<\/a> page.  Will start scribbling some answers to these new questions as soon as I have the energy for another shake up.  <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, today I successfully wrestled this here blog into a three-column format.  Style sheets are still largely a mystery to me, so this was no small feat.  My apologies to IE users who seem to be stuck with a much bigger font size than I&#8217;d like.  Just don&#8217;t know how to satisfy both Mozilla and IE.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p>technorati:  <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sCNN\" rel=\"tag\">sCNN<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/smallchangenews\" rel=\"tag\">SmallChangeNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted to sCNN &#8211; the smallChangeNewsNetwork Sunday night I had a chance to facilitate an OpenSpace meeting for a local church group. While they were doing their work, I took advantage of the creative buzz in the room to start sketching out the answers to the four big questions we&#8217;d identified recently as the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/08\/31\/a-whole-new-approach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Whole New Approach&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smallchangenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}