Mark Grimes said:

Collaboration among Omidyar.net members and Invisible Children founders really seemed to help drive IC much further much quicker, and certainly did a great job energizing the o/net community.

Yes, and let's piece this together. Life in Africa's more intricate collaboration with Invisible Children grew from the Onet connection, but was very negatively charged. At the end, in spite of a lot of good achieved together, we both had to let that collaboration go. The lack of a clear agreement for 1.5+ years was a devastating factor for Life in Africa's organizational culture, for our members who worked for IC, and for our microfinance program in partnership with Kiva. When a lot is at stake for the partners involved in an action oriented collaboration, I've learned that it's really important to have clear agreements in place.

Peace Tiles did a great job of using the Peace Tile process as collaborational element between two organizations.

http://peacetiles.org is such a wonderful collaborative medium. The human connections that peacetiles enable are so lovely - powerful and not expensive. One of the all time favorite collaborations I ever participated in was Peace Tiles to Darfur. Life in Africa members and I led a workshop that taught kids in Northern Uganda about the conflict in Darfur. They then created an incredible peacetiles mural as a gift for kids in Darfur. I carried the tiles in my suitcase to LA, where Gabriel Stauring picked them up and packed them for his upcoming trip to Darfur. I'll have to dig up the links to the content that we all created for that collaboration.

How does one "open up" collaboration in general?

I am hoping that inviting with intent might be an adequate place to start. Help me twitter?

Love this thread.

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