A few of us travelled from London to a ChangeCamp event in Toronto Tuesday night to help design a civic engagement toolkit: We see the municipal elections in 2010 as an excuse to gather people together to have real dialogues about the future of our communities. We believe that open source approaches can enable those conversations [...]
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No I haven’t forgot about the little endeavour I launched in May: I started thinking we need someplace to just try stuff. If it works, then great: we can replicate it on our own sites or even develop something more permanent, public, and professional. If it doesn’t work, then that’s ok too: without actually losing [...]
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Just finished getting the latest iteration of Open Conceptual presentable. My first post introducing the new phase is here. So I figured, since I’m shifting things around a little, it’s time for a roundup of where I am on the web: BrianFrank.ca [subscribe] 2 – 4 posts per week on average, usually around 800 words, fairly [...]
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It’s now one month-minus-a-day since I launched the LDNbeta dingy into its big, open, blue ocean. After pushing it a little this-way-and-that to see how the creative winds and currents move — I have a pretty good idea of what it is and what can be done with it. Ironically, those currents don’t seem to flow London’s [...]
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It’s about preparing for the future. Since we don’t know what the future will bring, we can’t know exactly how to prepare. What we can be sure of is that we’ll need to be creative, nimble, knowledgeable, open, adventurous, experienced… We need to be ready to capitalize on emerging opportunities and challenges (ones that never [...]
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“It would be great to see #ldnbeta concept (or some other iteration) picked up and used to drive the conversation — not just here, but on people’s own blogs, on Twitter, face-to-face, everywhere – exploring and advocating new opportunities for social media in London.” In hindsight I should have focused on that point a lot [...]
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This occurred to me last night when I was looking at some of the new Friend Connect gadgets. I wanted to try them but they don’t go along with what I do at brianfrank.ca very well. The ldnbeta.ca site evolved from that. I started thinking we need someplace to just try stuff. If it works, [...]
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