The Participation Company
Following a very busy November, blog traffic in December did not disappoint either. Here are the three posts that were most popular: New York Times Budget Puzzle ExpertNet RFI Meine-Demokratie.de: Participation Map for Germany Thanks to our readers and commenters. Here’s to a very productive new blog year 2011!
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I’m running for the Board of IAP2 USA. Here are a few reasons why: I believe strongly in the power of participation, and IAP2 with its solid framework (core values, code of ethics, spectrum etc.) and centuries of collective experience among its membership is one of the premier organizations in this field. IAP2 USA is [...]
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In case you missed them, here are the three posts that were most popular during the month of November: New York Times Budget Puzzle PACE Conference: The Role of Social Media in Public Participation Public Participation: Four Common Misconceptions November was our best month yet in terms of traffic, with the Budget Puzzle coverage eclipsing [...]
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These were the three most popular posts last month: Public Participation: Four Common Misconceptions What Is Deliberation? CityCampSF: October 16/17, 2010 in San Francisco, CA November is next.
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According to our stats, these were our three most popular posts last month: Public Participation: Ten Simple Ideas for Better Online/Offline Integration Public Participation: Four Common Misconceptions Seattle City Council Budget Consultation Let’s see what’s in store for October.
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Three interesting threads to highlight this week: For the second time, NCDD ran a “featured member” post and attracted a few good questions and answers: Today’s Featured NCDD Member: Healthy Democracy Oregon Over on the NCDD Forum, Matt Leighninger asks (great discussion, to be continued): Better to convene, or to aggregate? (and how?) My own [...]
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I had the distinct pleasure to attend all five days of IAP2′s Certificate Training Course in Public Participation last month (check their training calendar for upcoming training opportunities in your area). As I mentioned at the time, it was time well spent! As per the training materials, here’s what the three training units encompass: Planning [...]
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Just a few threads to point to this week, a couple of which prompted me to highlight IAP2′s core values and code of ethics: Andrea di Maio covers a report by The Guardian on Programme for Government, I point out that this was not crowdsourcing and reiterate the list of possible reasons why this effort failed [...]
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It seems the topic of ethics and integrity in public participation is coming up more often these days (see my comments here, here). Just for the record, these are the rules by which we at Intellitics abide. First, we have IAP2′s Core Values for the Practice of Public Participation: Public participation is based on the belief [...]
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Announcing that this was going to be a weekly segment on the blog may have been a bit premature (some weeks are just too busy while others are too slow), but let’s get back to presenting some of the interesting conversations we’re getting into elsewhere around the web, shall we? Last week, David Eaves (whom [...]
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As an experiment, I’m adding a weekly segment to this blog that shows our conversations elsewhere (a simple list of posts where we have commented). Over on the PEP-NET blog, Simone Gerdesmeier of Berlin, Germany-based Zebralog provides a comparison between AmericaSpeaks’ “Our Budget, Our Economy” project that happened this past weekend and Zebralog’s upcoming Citizen [...]
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It took us a while, but we’re finally in the process of launching the first alpha release of Zilino, our new web application for online consultations. Zilino allows organizations (private, non-profit, government etc.) to engage their people (members, citizens, residents, other constituents etc.) in problem solving and decision making. The prototype went live earlier in April [...]
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In August 2009, our team from the Brandt School advised the City of Erfurt on their participatory budgeting project. The city had asked their citizens earlier in a survey which areas they find important, and the administration wanted to use the results of the survey as the basis for an internet-based consultation. The next step [...]
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Probably the most memorable presentation at the 2007 Community Next conference in Stanford was “The Patent-Pending skinnyCorp Method for Creating Online Awesomeness and Other Cool Stuff” by Jeffrey Kalmikoff and Jake Nickell of skinnyCorp, makers of Threadless and other entertaining projects large and small. As Kalmikoff pointed out in one of the stories they shared [...]
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Back in February, the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD), along with a number of other established associations and organization in the field of dialogue, conflict resolution and public participation, launched a collaborative effort to craft a set of principles for public engagement that would inform the Open Government Directive currently being worked on by [...]
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These are the slightly modified slides from a quick presentation I gave last night at Web Monday Silicon Valley in San Francisco. It’s a first high-level introduction to our first product, a web application for problem solving and decision making in large groups. | View | Upload your own We hope to have the initial [...]
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Following a recent IAP2 Northern California chapter meeting, I came across this definition of public participation: What is Public Participation? Public participation is the process by which an organization consults with interested or affected individuals, organizations, and government entities before making a decision. Public participation is two-way communication and collaborative problem solving with the goal [...]
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At a corporate picnic in Los Gatos, CA last August, the party host (some Senior VP of Marketing or similar rank at the company I worked for at the time), after welcoming the 100-plus employees who were attending that sunny afternoon, reminded everybody of the company’s strict don’t-drink-and-drive policy. For those who wanted to enjoy [...]
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In addition to this blog, you can now follow Intellitics on Twitter. What is Twitter? According to Wikipedia: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, email, to the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. [...]
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This past weekend, Barcamp celebrated its 2-year anniversary at BarCampBlock in Palo Alto, CA. For those who’ve never heard of the concept: BarCamp is an international network of unconferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies and social protocols. From the [...]
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