To celebrate NCDD’s 10th anniversary this year, we are very excited to launch the NCDD Catalyst Awards. Two $10,000 prizes will be awarded to team projects organized, led and selected by NCDD members that jump-start the field’s next best ideas and impact our communities’ and our country’s ability to solve its most challenging problems. Today,Read… Read more »

We’re thrilled to have two great NCDD members serving as our conference Emcees for NCDD Seattle: John Gastil and Susanna Haas Lyons. They’ll be providing you with familiar, friendly faces throughout the event, introducing presenters, making announcements and helping us transition between activities. John Gastil is the Head of the Department of Communication Arts andRead… Read more »

NCDD has been involved in a great project called Participedia.net for the past couple of years. Participedia is a new online repository for detailed case studies on democratic innovation and public engagement. Here’s a letter from Participedia director Pat Scully extending an invitation to session leaders at NCDD Seattle to contribute their stories and casesRead… Read more »

One of our extraordinary conference planning team members, John Spady (pictured), is organizing an effort to record audio from all our NCDD Seattle conference workshops. Can you help? If you’re willing to record all the workshops you’re attending, you may get a very cool recording device for your iPhone in the bargain. Basically, John isRead… Read more »

Due to the generosity of the NCDD community during our summer fund drive, we still have some scholarship funds available to help people attend next month’s National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation in Seattle. We’re particularly interested in helping people who are traditionally underrepresented in our field to attend: young people, people of color, conservativesRead… Read more »

Here’s a post from one of our local Community Partners for the 2012 NCDD conference, the Center for Ethical Leadership… At the Center for Ethical Leadership, we often talk about “Leadership by asking compelling questions.” When we work in communities to bring different people together and build their collective leadership capacity to address critical issues,Read… Read more »

We’ve been encouraging NCDD Seattle attendees to self-organize activities the day before the conference — and I’m excited to share with you what’s being offered so far. 9:30 am to noon: Community Weaving workshop: Action planning session to better outcomes 1:30 to 5:30 pm: Method Mapping with the Group Works Card Deck training 4:00 toRead… Read more »

Here’s a post from Natalie Hopkinson, Fellow of the Interactivity Foundation (IF). The Interactivity Foundation is one of our Co-Sponsors for the 2012 NCDD Conference, and we are raising awareness within our community about IF’s great work. Check out this impressive list! One of the three legs of the Interactivity Foundation’s (IF) mission is publicRead… Read more »

I wanted to post a quick reminder that next Thursday (September 20th) is the last day to register for the 2012 NCDD conference at the regular rate. The late rate of $550 goes into effect that night at 11pm Pacific! We timed it like this to encourage everyone to get themselves registered and reserve theirRead… Read more »

NCDD is inviting all members to participate in a project that will be showcased at the NCDD Seattle conference next month. The planning team would like to create a video comprised of photos submitted by our members that include a statement of how you describe your work in dialogue and deliberation — or why youRead… Read more »