Top Posts November 2013

by Tim on December 2, 2013

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Recent posts (from the period September through November) that were most popular last month: Deliberative Television Internet Usage Germany 1997-2013 By Age Group Build Peace Conference: April 5-6, 2014 at MIT Media Lab And here are November’s three most popular legacy posts: What Is Public Participation? 2014 Event and Conference Radar What Is Public Participation? [...]

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NCDD 2013 Membership Drive

by Tim November 25, 2013 Radar

Quick commercial break: The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) is doing a membership drive right now through Thanksgiving: As part of our 2013 member drive, we want to encourage our existing members to invite others to join NCDD as a Supporting Member for just $25. Word-of-mouth from those of you who know NCDD [...]

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Real Dialogues: Watch Hangout #2 Today!

by Tim November 20, 2013 Uncategorized

Real Dialogues, our NCDD Catalyst project, is headed into its second live hangout today. We’ll continue our conversation on employment and the minimum wage with our citizen participants and plan to bring in several policy experts. Tune in at 11am Pacific (2pm Eastern) today. You can follow Real Dialogues on the blog, Twitter, Facebook and [...]

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Build Peace Conference: April 5-6, 2014 at MIT Media Lab

by Tim November 18, 2013 Conflict Resolution

Just added this to our 2014 conference radar: Build Peace Conference, April 5-6, 2014 at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA. From the website: The Build Peace Conference brings together practitioners, activists and technologists from around the world to share experience and ideas on using technology for peacebuilding and conflict transformation. How to build peace? [...]

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More Background on “Text, Talk, Act”

by Tim November 18, 2013 Mobile

Matt Leighninger, Deliberative Democracy Consortium, shared an update via email over the weekend outlining the approach behind the upcoming “Text, Talk, Act” instant text messaging event. First, it’s described as an attempt to combine traditional forms of citizen deliberation with newer, more light-weight forms of engagement: We developed this process because we were looking for a way [...]

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Creating Community Solutions Announces Instant Text Meeting Event

by Tim November 15, 2013 Mobile

Creating Community Solutions, an initiative part of the National Dialogue on Mental Health, just announced it will be hosting a “text-enabled dialogue” or instant text meeting early next month. From the website: Text, Talk, Act to Improve Mental Health A Text-Enabled National Creating Community Solutions Dialogue Mental health affects us all. It’s time to end [...]

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Daren Brabham Crowdsourcing Typology

by Tim November 14, 2013 Crowdsourcing

It was a pleasure to finally meet Daren Brabham in person at the 2013 IAP2 North America Conference (listen to my 2010 This Week in Participation interview with him on crowdsourcing in urban planning). His IAP2 conference keynote on crowdsourcing was very useful, as expected. I particularly liked the taxonomy he shared (see image above), [...]

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Penn State Democracy Institute Seeking Nominations for 2014 Democracy Medal

by Tim November 13, 2013 Radar

From the announcement: Seeking Nominations for the Penn State Democracy Medal Each year, the Penn State Democracy Institute is giving a medal and $5,000 award for exceptional innovations that advance the design and practice of democracy. The medal celebrates and helps to publicize the best work being done to advance democracy in the United States or [...]

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