The Participation Company
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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The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) provides a good definition of dialogue and deliberation, and describes how the two relate to each other: So what are dialogue and deliberation anyway? Dialogue is a process that allows people, usually in small groups, to share their perspectives and experiences with one another about difficult issues [...]
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According to Wikipedia: Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. … Although the term is generally applied to behavior within governments, politics is observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. Politics consists of “social relations involving authority or power”. and refers to the regulation of a [...]
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Welcome to Intellitics! This is the obligatory first post to the blog.
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