--- title: The Latest | Tom Klaus description: Tom Klaus | --- [![20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/Administration/Tamarack%20Logos/20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange.png?width=200&height=47&name=20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange.png "20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange")](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/?hsLang=en-us) # The Latest Contribute. We love to hear your thoughts, your musings and your latest work. Please share with us! [![Write a post](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/316071/33819a55-1164-4664-8ab0-c9fe2f42d6f1.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/316071/33819a55-1164-4664-8ab0-c9fe2f42d6f1) #### Subscribe. Be in the know. Get the latest updates about community change and building vibrant communities. 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[Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/the-mostly-certitudes-of-change?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/The_Latest/craig_ferguson.jpg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/listening-for-crickets?hsLang=en-us) ### [Listening for Crickets](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/listening-for-crickets?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Tom Klaus](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/tom-klaus) on September 8, 2016 **Some people think of me as an expert in a few things, which is okay. It is not okay, however, that I have acted like an expert in most things...if not all things on occasion. ** This awareness is part of the understanding that comes with experience and maturity (which is a nice way of saying "age"). That it took me a while to arrive at this self-understanding is a bit embarrassing yet I'm glad I did. It has dramatically changed how I try to work with individuals and groups. Even more, I think it has changed my relationship with them for better. [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/listening-for-crickets?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/Idea_Collective_Impact/CIBlog.jpg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/hows-your-collaborative-posture?hsLang=en-us) ### [How's Your Collaborative Posture?](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/hows-your-collaborative-posture?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Tom Klaus](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/tom-klaus) on May 10, 2016 Recently the Collective Impact Forum featured a terrific piece by Sheri Brady and Jennifer Splansky Juster on the **[Collective Impact Principles of Practice](http://collectiveimpactforum.org/blogs/1301/collective-impact-principles-practice-putting-collective-impact-action?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Collective%20Impact%20Principles%20of%20Practice&utm_campaign=CIFApril2016OneShot)**. These eight principles to guide efforts to put Collective Impact into practice are long overdue. [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/hows-your-collaborative-posture?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/Photos/Image%20Library/bees%20flower%20buzz.jpeg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/hey-whats-the-buzzing-sound?hsLang=en-us) ### [Hey, What's the Buzzing Sound?](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/hey-whats-the-buzzing-sound?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Tom Klaus](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/tom-klaus) on March 31, 2016 **A buzzing sound can mean many things. **When I was a kid growing up on an Iowa farm, a buzzing sound usually meant bees were near by...typically a scary thing since I was pretty sure they had me in their tiny stinger sights. Ah, but there are buzzing sounds that are not at all scary and indicate good things are happening. I heard one just like that last week in Buffalo, New York. [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/hey-whats-the-buzzing-sound?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://andreasmoser.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/29-february.jpg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/to-engage-or-mobilize?hsLang=en-us) ### [To Engage or Mobilize?](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/to-engage-or-mobilize?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Tom Klaus](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/tom-klaus) on February 29, 2016 ***Recently I have been ruminating on the difference between community engagement and community mobilization.*** "Ruminate" is a great word for a Leap Day because the extra day gives us more time to really ***think*** on something, right? In the United States, where I do much of my work, we seem to prefer the term mobilization more than engagement, though we sometimes refer to mobilization as engagement and vice versa.  [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/to-engage-or-mobilize?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://nonprofitgp.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/sagrada-familia-outside.jpg?w=169&h=300) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/collective-leadership-for-collective-impact?hsLang=en-us) ### [Collective Leadership for Collective Impact](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/collective-leadership-for-collective-impact?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Tom Klaus](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/tom-klaus) on January 20, 2016 What do you do when you realize the monumental project you have undertaken will have to be finished without you? 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