I’ve been thinking about how to better document events for a while now. This came up again today during the OpenEverything organizing call. Documentation falls into a sad communication grey zone. The poor cousin of Event Design. Too many times an after-thought, with little resources or planning, left to a small group of people. The solution? Social Reporting.
Archive | May, 2009
OpenMontreal, OpenEverything
As part of my work with Station C and Artefatica, I’ve been organizing with Sylvain Carle to hold an “MontrealOuvert” / “OpenMontreal” event in the fall. We had a planning meeting last April that went really well. I envisioned this as part of the OpenEverything movement, but really hadn’t done much about it. So I [...]
WordPress: Blog not on home page
Sharing this with you because I had a hard time figuring it out. I googled, and only lots of found out-dated information and complicated plug-ins. Finally, I just asked Patrick. He sent me a quick, elegant answer: 1. Create a page with the title the same as the address you want for the blog. Usually [...]
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Sustainability meet Resilience, my secret love
Dear Sustainability, Today June Holley posted a tweet that set off an avalanche: Sustainability v Resilience? The tweet sent me to a Foreign Policy article by Jamais Casico (you can download a PDF of article or just read a summary). Oh, Sustainability, I love you so. But you trouble me. I can never pin you [...]
Forming the community
Sorta connected to yesterday’s post. Here’s a Bernice Johnson Reagon quote on community. Dr Reagon is the founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock. I’m not a soloist, I’m a song leader. And a song leader starts songs but you can’t finish without help. Singing does not make sense to me without the congregation because [...]
Being nobody-but-yourself
In 1991, when I was 22, Peggy Antrobus gave me a mixed tape of Sweet Honey in the Rock. I was surprised and thrilled with the gift and listened to the tape over and again. Later, when I lived in Washington DC, I had the opportunity to see them live and hear them speak at [...]