David Wilcox at Designing for Civil Society has just posted six essentials for effective engagement, which is accompanied by a link to a great resource on public participation that he wrote ten years ago. David’s post trigged my own thinking on consultation. Consultation is one of the backbone activities in my business. I simply love designing consultative processes that bring together stakeholders from multiple worlds to help co-create something. Most of my practice of course has centred on Aboriginal issues, but the lessons I have learned extend into any endeavour. A few years ago I was asked to put together …
A new Hubble deep field photo From the Hubble Space Telescope comes this view of the very early cosmos: The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies, about 100, may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was just 800 million years old. The nearest galaxies – the larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals – thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old. In vibrant contrast to the rich harvest of classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of oddball galaxies littering …
Two new websites of interest to Open Space Technology practitioners and friends. First, my friend Lisa Heft has finally got her consulting practice website up and running. After being in business for 30 years, she really knows what she is talking about and she is one of my all time favourite space openers. She has taught me, more than anything, how to model enthusiasm and cherish participants. Also, my other California friend (and close friend of Lisa) Jeff Aitken, has just launched his own weblog which is going to rock you. Jeff’s blog impresses me with his ability to hold …
Canada’s Best Blogs has just released the March list of the Top Blogs. These don’t mean anything other than the fact that the blogs have been nominated and judges liked what they saw. But the fun part is that Hockey Pundits, a group blog I am a part of, got picked this month. Congrats go out to all the Pundits who keep that group blog a fun place to write about hockey.
I’m off again on another business trip, this time to Fort St. John, British Columbia, located on the praries EAST of the Rockies. Yes, BC has praires too. A whole different kind of scenery than the Skeena Region. Following that, I’ll be in Kelowna. So in the absence of any meaningful blogging, here is my latest list of linkage, featuring 10 sites worth spending time on: A collection of Anarchist writings via plep Queen of Suffereing: A spiritual history of Korea via MetaFilter Grow…a game. via Bifurcated Rivets The Winning ways of Alinsky and Gandhi via Wealth Bondage The Nobel …