At Book Sprints we acquired our first piece of art for our office in Berlin, and we could not identify any more than we do with the chosen piece. By South Africa/New Zealand artist Nicky Broekhuysen (www.nickybroekhuysen.com), “Unbound” is a ... read more
March is all about books and reading in the city of Leipzig in Germany. The Leipzig Book Fair and the concurrent Reading Festival are the spring events of the publishing industry. 271.000 authors, readers and publishers meet to read, exchange ... read more
Since 2014, Cisco has produced 12 books with Book Sprints. These include: Cisco DNA Assurance: Unlocking the Power of Data Cisco Enterprise Wireless: Intuitive Wi-Fi Starts Here Cisco IOS XE Programmability: Automating Device Lifecycle Management Cisco Ultra M Troubleshooting Guide ... read more
USAID Power Africa Program has produced a series of three books with Book Sprints – called the ‘Understanding Series’ – since 2015, and through the experience have discovered a new way to tackle policy development in their work. A ... read more
Our recent Book Sprint in Cambridge was unique because the founder of Book Sprints, Adam Hyde brought his organization, the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko) together to do a Book Sprint. He also got to participate for the first time in a methodology ... read more
It’s a question we often get asked. Typically the people working with us are more concerned with producing and distributing knowledge as quickly as possible so traditional publishing houses don’t appeal. However this is not a rule. The first book ... 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
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 stye participatory event” which have become popular in the technology space. Adam Hyde, ... read more
The book ‘Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities’ is currently on MIT Press’ PubPub online platform, open to a wider community for review and editing before it gets pitched to publishers. The book was written by a group of 13 authors ... read more
“So what’s the normal product at the end of 5 days, a table of contents or something?” asked one of the people joining this week’s Book Sprint on Human Robot Interaction. I chuckled to myself, reassured him that no book ... read more
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