How It Happened Last night a group of us got together to discuss ChangeCamp London and different opportunities for fostering a more collaborative & open culture in London. It was a great meeting and we’ll see some good things coming together in the near future. With that still fresh in my mind, I noticed a [...]
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collaboration,
cycling,
open,
open data,
open government,
open source,
social media,
technology
Yesterday a new website launched, Action London 2010, providing Londoners what promises to be a textbook perfect case study on dos and don’ts of civic engagement in the digital age. They say (and have demonstrated they are) working to improve the site quickly, to their credit. I wasn’t going to post this but I eventually decided to lay [...]
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accountability,
cities,
civic engagement,
democracy,
digital democracy,
generativity,
government,
openness,
transparency
Steven Johnson has an excellent column in the New York Times, on the iPhone and the mixed merits of open and closed platforms. He begins with a reference to Jonathan Zittrain’s work on “generativity,” (familiar to readers of this blog) i.e. “the ability of a self-contained system to provide an independent ability to create, generate [...]
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conversation,
craftsmanship,
criticism,
dialog,
ethics,
generativity,
innovation,
ipad,
iphone,
jonathan zittrain,
love of learning,
markets,
openness
This post touches on social media engagement but it’s more generally a demonstration of the process of conceptualization itself. The discipline of imagining and developing these kinds of concepts is the deliverable I’ve been developing for the past few years and converting into the Open Conceptual enterprise model. Social media just happens to be one of the [...]
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concept development,
conceptualizations,
curation,
design thinking,
engagement,
social media,
socialgraphics
