Revitalizing downtown is an ever-relevant topic in London, as I’m sure it is in most cities. (There may be cities where downtown isn’t an important part of the story; those are cities I don’t want to live in.) Last night we had a bit of a thing here as part of Downtown London and the [...]
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cities,
downtown,
heritage,
history,
location,
mobile,
planning,
poverty,
strategy,
transit,
urban design,
urban planning
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
I just reached 5130 words on a blog post… a little to long to still qualify as a “blog post,” methinks. It’s an essay really, but still long enough I should explain. When I’m writing an essay, I often start adding a sentence or a paragraph in the middle or close to the start, and [...]
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applications,
artificial intelligence,
blogging,
brainstorming,
essays,
ideas,
semantic web,
writing
Part of a new series I’m starting to explore social, creative, and economic opportunities specific to London Ontario. Recently I posted about the benefits of educating citizens to think like journalists. Since then I found a lot of great examples of a collaborative approach to journalism — not just between professionals and amateurs, but between [...]
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cities,
collaboration,
conversation,
cooperation,
journalism,
news,
opportunity,
organizations,
social media,
web
At HarvardBusiness.org, Tammy Erickson writes, Future leaders in all spheres will have to contend with a world with finite limits, no easy answers, and the sobering realization that we are facing significant, seemingly intractable problems on multiple fronts. Perhaps the biggest change from the past: leaders will have to listen and respond to diverse points [...]
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education,
generation x,
generations,
generativity,
historical reason,
history,
leadership,
learning,
perception,
philosophy of history
