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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 [...]
Continue reading...A comic annual report
23. March 2009
Face it: most annual report are boring and they suck. Reading or (worse) writing them will suck your life force, transforming you into a dry, withered shell that your loved ones will stare at and kick around, wondering what happened to you. And producing them will do the same to your organization’s time and financial [...]
Continue reading...Communications guide for networks
2. December 2008
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Just finished posting the first draft of a communication guide for telecentre networks on my blog on the telecentre.org website. People who manage distributed teams will also find some good stuff in it. I’ll be developing some of the concepts here, but in a more generic form. Especially the eavesdropping model — a great alternative [...]
Continue reading...Report from Webcamp Montreal, Part 1
12. November 2008
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Thanks to Patrick (all my blogs will now start with this phrase!) today I attended Webcamp Montreal. Since I’m a practical girl, interested in facilitation and open space meetings, and think it’s important to document and share HOW we can work better together I’m starting out by sharing the meeting rules and non-rules. Rules 1. [...]
Continue reading...Enterprise Microsharing Tools Comparison
2. November 2008
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Laura Fitton and the folks at Pistachio consulting have just released a Enterprise Microsharing Tools Comparison report, which compares nineteen applications that companies can use for microsharing inside of companies. You can download it from Scribd.com. Non-profits and social-change initiatives should look closely at how micro-sharing can work for them, as well as folks interested [...]
Continue reading...Brandstreaming & Social Media Releases
31. October 2008
Found some interesting stuff while poking around online tonight. Brian Solis, The Definitive Guide to Social Media Releases and Steve Kayser’s comment on it. Jeremiah Owyang, How Brands Will Use FriendFeed Richard MacManus, Brandstreaming: What Is It & Who’s Doing It? Sarah Perez, The Future of Blogging Revealed (on lifestreaming) Was just able to skim [...]
Continue reading...Hugh McGuire: Books Versus Ebooks
28. October 2008
Hugh has a great post on books versus ebooks. Well worth the read. It also includes a list of places you can get free ebooks. A teaser: Reading an ebooks is just “another way” to be reading, it’s not necessarily a replacement of a hard copy of a book. After all, I prefer to talk [...]
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Nathan Englander reads Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Disguised” for The New Yorker’s monthly reading and conversation with Deborah Treisman. Englander’s voice couldn’t be more perfect.
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Early in his career, professor Mark Rowlands had two loves: philosophy and Brenin, a wolf he was forced to bring along to his lectures. Through their relationship, Rowlands started examining his work and life. Listen on CBC’s Ideas, via EarIdeas.
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Every month, The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, hosts a reading and conversation with a well-known writer. August 2009 featured Joshua Ferris reading George Saunders’s “Adams.” The rhythm is magnificent.
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- Innovation Grounds 1.0
- Open research, open data, open development
- One-dollar books and why reading history matters
- Collaborative consumption
- Note from Seattle
- Create an open access repository
- Make music in the kitchen, the back seat of the car, wherever
- Policy & Technology: Edward Tufte’s keynote for Tech@State's Data Visualization event
- Using mobile technology to collect data
- Robert Bonardi: Christine, I greatly enjoyed the use of the map for visualizing (sorry about the "zeds")informati...
- Christine: Thanks for your comment. One note: This was not meant as epistemological treatise on innovation or o...
- DF Bunnell: There is a tendency for every generation to not only think, but genuinely believe that we just, some...
- Chris Coward: Here's a library getting in on the action http://bit.ly/u4XDU2...
- Chris Coward: Excellent work! I like the four dimensions and the characteristics you list. One point to underscore...
- Wayan: My big takeaway was Joel's startling statistic that +90% of all stock management in healthcare is vo...
- Christine: If you want to practice ...
- Alex: so, now pleasure goeth before a fall? that's not supposed to be the way things go!...
- Dani: Oh so good to read you like this! What a life of luxury you lead!! Well deserved I say....
- Christine: Along the same lines... Julien tweeted this ...
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29. May 2009
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