On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 members of the Xylem Group discussed some issues for a nonprofit board that attempts to govern with board transparency The Xylem-Group is still exploring a format for using FireTalk to hold their deliberations in a public … Continue reading
Xylem is continuing its exploration of a broadcasting platform. Here, we are using Firetalk. In this episode, we are using the closed caption feature of Youtube to extract the text. We are wondering if it would make it easier for … Continue reading
On Monday, October 10th, four of the Xylem Partners assembled to explore and discover the features and opportunities of using Firetalk. Here are the results of our deliberations. One of our challenges has been to make it possible for a … Continue reading
The Xylem Group has enjoyed our public video conversations using Blab — but that platform has vanished. Here is Robert Ballantyne showing the way to set up and use FireTalk. FireTalk is similar to Blab, and we may decide to … Continue reading
Using the Blab platform, Xylem has created 17 episodes, and have several more planned. This week the Co-founder and CEO of Blab, Shaan Puri, announced that Blab was off the air. Since we could not meet on Blab, our Xylem … Continue reading
Notice: This episode did not happen due to the demise of Blab.im. The Xylem-Group would still like to explore this topic, and several more we have planned. For now, we are still wondering how to proceed. We apologize for any … Continue reading
Reasonable Interpretation is a necessary concept for boards governing with Policy Governance, but it is also useful for anyone who is in a position to delegate by articulating policies. On August 10,2016, members of the Xylem Group explored how to use reasonable … Continue reading
on Aug 3. 2016, we explored the the issue of governing by using referenda. Is a referendum democratic? Is a referendum an abdication of governance? When do referenda work well? When or why do referenda fail to serve? How does … Continue reading
On July 13th 2016 members of Xylem asked the question: are nonprofit boards accountable to anyone? Should they be, and to whom — to themselves, to the community, to the members, or to something else? The video replay of the event … Continue reading
On Wednesday July 6th Xylem explored the difference between the role of governing and managing. We see board members who want to meddle in the affairs of management (and may have some authority to do that), and we see CEO and … Continue reading