Facilitating Change

Innovation Grounds 1.0

21. November 2011

This mind map lays out a framework for thinking about “innovation grounds” — spaces where people can come together and generate ideas, solutions, knowledge, culture, and relationships. It emerged from perceiving coworking spaces as next-generation telecentres; seeing connections between telecentres, coworking spaces, hackerspaces, and libraries; and being somewhat exasperated at how libraries are often overlooked as key actors in community development — despite the fact that they’ve always been places where people convene, learn, and create (especially information... and we’re in the information age, Hello!).

WordPress taxonomy unions

11. October 2010

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How do I get Wordpress to display everything in my website tagged "publications" AND "employability"? After looking for "WordPress multiple tags" allover the place I realized my novice self was not even searching for the right terms. What I should have been looking for is "Wordpress taxonomy intersections unions" (e.e.: always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question).

Research Briefs: Simple tools to link research to practice

10. December 2009

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Briefs are important communication tools for linking research findings to policy and practice — and ultimately affecting change. Because face it: in the attention economy no one has time to read the full report. Here's the format we've developed at the Technology & Social Change Group for writing a research brief.

Identica: Open microblogging & recipes in 140 characters or less

17. July 2009

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Identica's commitment to open standards is hot. And all good technology shares this characteristic: People can figure out how to make it work for them. It's hackable. Just look at Twyka in Kenya and Naijapulse in Nigeria. And as for me? Tonight I discovered a group that shares recipes in 140 characters or less. Bliss.

Virtual collaboration bibliography

8. June 2009

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How might we organize communications more effectively? My hypothesis: A distributed model will work better. (More on this later, you can see some preliminary thoughts in an article I wrote for telecentre.org.) My focus here is on developing a better way to work for distributed, multidisciplinary, cross-cultural teams. More specifically research teams, international development projects, [...]

Characteristics of university-based research groups

8. June 2009

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Today doing lots of reading and research on collaboration systems and practices for distributed teams. And especially for research teams. Tracey Lauriault (see also her datalibre.ca writing) gave me a paper she wrote on this with Fraser Taylor: Cybercartography and the New Economy: Collaborative Research in Action. I’ve not yet read the whole paper, but [...]

Social Reporting

29. May 2009

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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.

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Innovation Grounds 1.0

WordPress taxonomy unions

Research Briefs: Simple tools to link research to practice

Identica: Open microblogging & recipes in 140 characters or less

Virtual collaboration bibliography

Characteristics of university-based research groups

Social Reporting

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