Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
From the monthly archives:
I’m in Tucson, AZ this week attending the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution’s sixth national ECR Conference: ECR2010: Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution – Evolving to Meet New Opportunities.
I had been eyeing this opportunity ever since I first heard about the conference back in October of last year. A number of people highly recommended it, and their [...]
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I was just playing around with Freenode IRC (trying to set up a permanent #edem channel), when I came across their channel guidelines. We’re still drafting our community ground rules for Zilino, and I found these very applicable:
Channel Guidelines
IRC is a low-bandwidth method of communication, in comparison with physical presence. Many of the cues of [...]
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I’ve previously written about the importance of expectation management as an essential piece to successful public participation.
With Zilino, our goal is to support the project organizers in managing participants’ expectations from beginning to end. Specifically, we want conveners and facilitators to be very transparent about the level of influence participants can reasonably expect to have on the decision making process.
As [...]
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The International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) today announced submissions for their 2010 Core Values Awards are now open. From the President’s email:
I am looking forward to reading the innovations in the 2010 Core Values Awards submissions. These awards are an opportunity to showcase what is leading the practice so that others experience, learn and [...]
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