I ran across a year-old article I had bookmarked from GovTech entitled “Do Apps for Democracy and Other Contests Create Sustainable Applications?” (via Justin Massa) For the past two years, innovation contests have swept the country in a contagious craze, from Washington, D.C., to New York City, from San Francisco to Portland. Even first lady [...]
Capote divx Donald Rumsfield admitted that chucking the Geneva Conventions (and 50 years of military policy) came out of a bad process: As he explained in an interview in late 2008, policies were developing so fast in the weeks after the September 11 attacks that he did not follow his own normal procedures. “All of [...]
Flipping through The Facilitator’s Fieldbook (Second Edition) I really liked their listing/categorization of the different Types of Process Consultation. It’s a straighforward breaking apart of the different methods one might use to facilitate an interaction (normal-speak translation: talk to people) Active Listening: Paying close attention to both what is being said and the processes that [...]
Kill Switch release I was having a talk today with Danielle about this proposal on “Open Source Engagement” on Milla Digitalia. Mostly I was being critical of the manner in which the authors sling around “open source”. But back to Danielle, and the analogy. The fallacy of that proposal is that the authors are confusing [...]
