Knitting Networks Exloco is helping launch a learning community to identify and develop best practices for knitting together successful networks. The project defines a network as a group of individuals or organizations informally interconnected through meaningful collaborative relationships. These relationships are self-organizing, inclusive, bridge divides, and are based on the belief that people in the network can achieve more together than they could apart or in opposition. The characteristics of a successful network are:

The work of the network must be in the hands of its users.

All members matter and can contribute.

Core members of the network must be able to exercise veto power and keep control to preserve the networks' mission and values.

The network produces outcomes aligned with its values and mission.

Knitting Networks resources: "Leading Between," Paul Skidmore
"Network Mapping"
Network Tenets
"Working Wikily", Diana Scearce, Gabriel Kasper, & Heather McLeod Grant
"The Engagement Pyramid: Six Levels of Connecting People and Social Change," Gideon Rosenblatt networkweaver.blogspot.com: June Holley and Valdis Krebs's blog on network weaving
netcentriccampaigns.org: Netcentric Campaigns
Working Wikily blog: Social Networks & Social Change