When prospecting for a Book Sprint, organisers often ask us (and we answer in our FAQs) if we can recommend any ideal venues. Having facilitated more than 200 Book Sprints, we have come up with a list that we are happy ... read more
Many in the tech industry started out with FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) projects, and so did the Book Sprints method. And just like software development, so did the development of the method go through some trial and error, and ... read more
The task to get a group of experts committed to a 5-day Book Sprint can be tricky. People take a risk putting their names on a book with others, and taking days off their busy routine to try out a ... read more
2021 was a year of improving what we learned about online Book Sprints in 2020, and a chance to slowly go back to our origins of in-person Book Sprints: traveling the world to meet with groups for an intense 5-day ... 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
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
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 into their organisations. The experts Christian Friedl, Martina Pumpat and Andreas Eckhardt helped us understand the characteristics commonly ... 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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