Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
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The following comparison of dialogue and debate seems to have first appeared in the Winter 1993 edition of Focus on Study Circles: The Newsletter of the Study Circles Resource Center (now Everyday Democracy). Thanks to the Wayback Machine’s vast internet archives, a snapshot from 2002 (?) is still available today:
Comparison of Dialogue and Debate
Dialogue is collaborative: two or [...]
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While working on the previous post, I couldn’t help but think how valuable it would be for participants, researchers and everyone else interested if these high-level participation metrics were readily available in real-time on the site that hosts the discussion, rather than having to dig them up manually and deal with incomplete information, assumptions and more or [...]
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Over the past few days, the site that’s hosting the Open Government Brainstorm has been overrun with off-topic ideas and spam (most noticeably, there has been an avalanche of requests to “release President Obama’s birth certificate in order to prove his US citizenship”). See this snapshot of the tag cloud I took yesterday:
Steven Clift just [...]
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I feel like sharing a few of the ideas that have accumulated on our wiki over the past couple or so years.
Most of these are related to the hosted e-participation service we’ve been working on, and hopefully some will see the light of day very shortly.
First, though, one general note on what has been driving a [...]
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Intellitics will attend this year’s National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation, October 3-5, 2008 in Austin, Texas.
Here’s a quote from the NCDD email newsletter from today that gives you the details:
1. Latest on the 2008 National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation: Creating Cultures of Collaboration
We know your budget is tight this year, but if you [...]
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The following are a few Facebook groups we watch that deal with various aspects of dialogue, deliberation, public participation, e-government or e-democracy (membership numbers as of today):
C2D2 – Canadian Community for Dialogue and Deliberation (18 members)
Community of interest on dialogue and deliberation. Conference held every two years.
Conversation Cafe (308 members)
Conversation Cafes promote community, democracy [...]
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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.
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We hope to have the initial [...]
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Conversations Elsewhere
