The Participation Company
Tom Atlee will be presenting at this week’s NCDD Confab Call. From his blog: I’ll be doing an online dialogue in the 2-hour National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation Confab Call on Tuesday, January 17th at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific). Ben Roberts, a principal in both weDialogue and Occupy Café, will be facilitating the call [...]
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The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) and the Deliberative Democracy Consortium (DDC) have put out a joint response to the recent White House call for input. It’s very solid, so please make sure to read it in full: Strengthening the Public Participation Elements of the Open Government Plan (PDF). Especially noteworthy is a list of [...]
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The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) is hosting their first-ever summer fund drive. From the announcement: Since 2002, the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation has served as a hub, a resource clearinghouse, and a facilitative leader for our dialogue and deliberation community. Together we have been the catalyst for extraordinary connection and [...]
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Here’s the video from the Online Engagement panel at NCDD 2010 Austin (see slides). My 9-minute opening remarks start at around 14:45. Asked about the one big issue or question the panelists were grappling with I stated the following (minimally edited, starts at 35:15): The main challenge that my company is working on is how [...]
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I prepared a few slides for my opening remarks on Friday’s panel on Online Engagement at the NCDD 2010 Austin conference (you may notice a bit of overlap with my PACE presentation). Please note that these slides are intended for conference attendees and may not work as well out of context. I may share another [...]
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Based on NCDD’s Core Principles of Public Engagement, the hand-out material at NCDD 2010 Austin includes this tongue-in-cheek list of things not to do: Do everything at the last minute Gather the people that are easiest to gather My way or the highway Trust us — We know how to solve this Keep your cards [...]
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Together with Brian Sullivan, founder and CEO of CivicEvolution, I am preparing an afternoon session for the upcoming NCDD 2010 NorCal conference: Online Public Engagement Learn when and how to incorporate online tools into your public engagement game plan as we review a few case studies. Understand the promises and limitations of different tools for online [...]
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Tom Atlee, founder of the non-profit Co-Intelligence Institute, just sent this invitation to his network about the upcoming NCDD events. With his permission, I’m re-posting it here. Dear friends, I view the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) as one of the most important groups supporting the emergence of democratic participatory wisdom to help societies [...]
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As part of its Fall 2010 conference series, the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) is organizing local events in Denver, Boston, San Francisco Bay Area, Austin and Portland (read about the long list of sponsors here). In addition to the Bay Area event, I just signed up for Austin (November 5, 2010 at St. [...]
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The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) just announced a series of regional one-day events for later this Fall. The Bay Area event is scheduled for Friday, October 29, 2010 at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA. From the website: The events will build on what we learned in the past year and a [...]
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After a longer period of downtime, one of the most comprehensive resources in the area of dialogue and deliberation is back in business. From the blog post: NCDD resources are back online (all 2,392 of them!) The Resource Center describes and categorizes close to 2,400 resources — including many dialogue guides, D&D methods, online tools, [...]
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Our local IAP2/NCDD group is doing another lunch webinar this Friday, June 4 at 12 noon: About the Stakeholder Score Webinar Environmental sustainability efforts not only reduce company risks, but are emerging as a source of competitive advantage. Sustainability is increasingly central to the operations and ongoing reporting of companies, and increasingly corporate executives are [...]
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Towards the end of last week’s Open Gov West conference/unconference in Seattle, WA a series of follow-up meetings on the West Coast was announced, the first of which is scheduled to happen in San Francisco, CA the week after next: San Francisco OGW Meetup: April 12th 6-8 PM We’re continuing the conversations from the Open [...]
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Looks like I finally get to attend one of the many events on Gov 2.0 and Open Government: Open Gov West The greater Northwest and Cascadia region is buzzing with innovative technology and civic engagement organizations, and a number of governments throughout the area have already launched open government directives. Hosted by the City of [...]
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Caroline Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, and Francesca Polletta, Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at UC, Irvine, have just released the results of a survey they did in September/October 2009 and which garnered responses from more than 400 practitioners: The 2009 Dialogue and Deliberation Practitioners Survey: [...]
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Update (02/03/2010): There is now an official NCDD list at http://twitter.com/ncdd/ncddlist (already much more comprehensive than ours, so we recommend you follow it instead!) * * * And while we’re at it, why not create a list of Twitterers who are members of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD)? Here it is: @intellitics/ncdd [...]
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In a post on the White House blog today, Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer and the Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, follows up on some of the questions that went unanswered during the FAQ on Tuesday: Answering Your Questions on the Open Government Directive Russ Gaskin of Washington, DC commented: [...]
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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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About a couple of weeks ago, the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) — in collaboration with a few other organizations in this field — launched the Public Engagement Principles project, an effort to craft a recommendation for the Obama administration as they work on the Open Government Directive. From the NCDD website: Get [...]
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As mentioned earlier on Twitter, we’ll be presenting Zilino at NCDD’s D&D Marketplace this October. Here’s the outline I just submitted: Zilino — Your Friendly E-participation Engine Introduction to Zilino, a new web application for group problem solving and decision making. Highly interactive discussion of some of the key concepts behind Zilino, our roadmap for [...]
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