I have a soft spot in my heart for Dennis Whittle, who has just announced he is leaving GlobalGiving after 10 years. My soft spot is self-indulgent as Dennis wrote this last October. Better reasons (for the soft spot) are: (1) With Mari Kuraishi he had the courage and confidence to leave the World Bank and start something really truly new: GlobalGiving. (2) He is a rare combination of creative and management-savvy, as the success of the organization he co-founded demonstrates. (3) He understands that in this age of open-source networking, it is not competition with like-minded organizations but informal collaboration/cooperation that generates better branding and more benefits for all. This is smart, of course. But my guess is that he discovered this truth early because he is, well, nice.I look forward to the writing and speaking he plans on the concepts behind GlobalGiving. Here’s the address for his blog: http://www.denniswhittle.blogspot.com/.
