Joan Blades emailed me a few days ago with a link to a new website we weren’t sure made us want to laugh or to cry – www.politicalscreamingmatch.com. I’ve been working with Joan lately (and Amanda Roman, Mary Jacksteit, and Barbara Simonetti) to explore how we might promote and support the launch of Living RoomRead… Read more »
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Book Club Week 3: An Aristotelian Understanding of Political Deliberation
This post is part of NCDD Book Club series on Democratizing Deliberation published by the Kettering Foundation last month. In this post, we discuss Bernard Yack’s chapter about Aristotle’s understanding of political deliberation and how it compares to the views of today’s deliberative democracy advocates. The authors of this blog post are Sarah Read ofRead… Read more »
Innovative Education: Meet The 100 Best Teachers Using Tech In The Classroom
Rob Bayuk (Redmond, WA) — We at Microsoft Education are excited to announce the official list of educators for the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2012 U.S. Forum. This is the 8th annual Partners in Learning Forum, a global program that last year attracted more 250,000 educators from over 70 countries. The Partners in Learning 2012Read… Read more »
The Cutting Edge of Open Government – Notes from Personal Democracy Forum
At Personal Democracy Forum listening to a panel on “The Cutting Edge of Open Government” Todd Park, White House CTO Open data -weather data -GPS data-health data – hundreds of companies In a fleet of new initiatives, energy, education, safety, impact data initiatives. Awesomeness + magic Carol Post, former NYC CIO Just 3 years forRead… Read more »
How Cyberpunk Killed Cybersecurity
This post is cowritten by AdamElkus and Alex Olesker. Before we begin, please understand just how hard it is for us to write this blog. I’ve read Neuromancer countless times, enthusiastically used Snow Crash in undergrad to talk about the future of international relations, and watched both Ghost in the Shell movies and the StandRead… Read more »
The Government Man is Back – What ever happened to the GSA scandal?
My blog posts on the GSA so-called scandal and my first You Tube posting received plenty of attention so I figured I would follow it up with more good cheer. I hope my message got across and reason is starting to prevail. What happened to the GSA scandal? It’s barely in the news anymore –Read… Read more »
New Crowdfunded Project in Eugene — Let’s Talk: Our New Economy
In Eugene, Oregon, the Co-Intelligence Institute is engineering a community-focused process to increase local capacity for healthy, creative group dialogue. By combining trainings and workshops with a series of dialogues around a substantive issue — in this case, the economy — we plan to demonstrate the generative power of group process even as we stimulateRead… Read more »
The Oil Sands in Alberta is like Language Laws in Quebec… It’s a domestic issue
This post isn’t based on a poll I’ve conducted or some rigorous methodology, rather it has evolved out of conversations I’ve had with friends, thought leaders I’ve run into, articles I’ve read and polls I’ve seen in passing. As most people know the development of the oil sands is a thorny issue in Canada. TheRead… Read more »
What makes an extraordinary workshop?
We’ll be putting a call out soon for workshop presenters for NCDD Seattle (October 12-14), and I’d love to get some NCDDers’ help thinking about what makes a great workshop. Your comments and ideas will help the conference team with the selection process, and will help session leaders start thinking about how best to frameRead… Read more »
Time to register for next Thursday’s NCDD Confab!
Don’t forget to register for next week’s NCDD “Confab Call” on Thursday, May 10th from 2:00 to 3:30 Eastern / 11:00 to 1:30 Pacific (register here). This should be a fun Confab, with NCDD members Tree Bressen and Sue Woehrlin leading a discussion about the innovative Group Works card deck and the collaboratively-developed pattern languageRead… Read more »