At the end of September we sprinted for the second time this year with MAVA Foundation, only that this time we did not meet online, but on the shores of beautiful Lake Geneva in a castle surrounded by vineyards. It was ... read more
Recently, the book Open Knowledge Institutions was openly published by MIT Press. This title went through a radically collaborative and transparent writing and publication process: From its collaborative drafting facilitated by the Book Sprints team, to its open review period ... read more
This year we were privileged to work with innovative philanthropists, The MAVA Foundation on their publication “Strategic Partnerships: MAVA’s approach to scaling up conservation impact.” This Virtual Book Sprint was small – just 7 people – 5 from MAVA and ... read more
What does it look like when a group of people get together, led by a facilitator, to write a book in five days? Some photos from the last Sprint tell the story. The improbable mission: ‘You mean an actual book, ... read more
In early 2021, following one year of Covid-19 travel restrictions, we had the privilege to come together with a group of CARE colleagues from Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos in a two-week Virtual Book Sprint. It was organized by Peter Bruun ... read more
In March, a team of 10 faculty members from the University of Hawaii’s many campuses across the islands came together in a virtual Book Sprint to write an Anatomy and Physiology OER textbook. After two OER Textbook Sprints in 2019, ... read more
Recently we were privileged to be part of the Collective Wisdom project, funded by UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. A key output of this project, was to write an open access book about how to do crowdsourcing in the ... read more
What makes our particular kind of facilitation at Book Sprints unique? We often get asked how what we do is different to the facilitation of an “unconference style participatory event” which have become popular in the technology space. Adam Hyde, ... read more
This is the third in a series of blog posts that take a closer look at the champions who bring innovative methods, like a Book Sprint, into their organisations. The experts Christian Friedl, Martina Pumpat and Andreas Eckhardt helped us ... read more
This is the second in a series of blog posts that take a closer look at the special people we work with. We call them champions because they often go to great lengths to innovate within their organisations. After analysing ... read more
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