Last Friday, I had the chance to address a small group of planning students, faculty and (hopefully) others interested in planning about the use of digital media. (Slides embedded below.)
Planning In The Age Of Participation
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I was delighted with the questions that my talk was able to generate. I drew [...]
Phewf! Between all the running around with the start of the second semester of school, the first month of the year is already week-old history, and I’ve just wrapped up one of the major milestones for this year: the Canadian Association of Planning Students (CAPS-ACEAU) annual conference at the University of Guelph, hosted by students of [...]
I will be speaking at SCARP’s 2nd annual symposium on “Planning for Resilience” on March 5th, 2010. The panel is being presented by PlanningPool, and is on the topic of how groups in planning are taking up the tremendous communication and engagement opportunity represented by blogs and other digital media.
2009 has gone and 2010 has come. Good time to collect my reflections on the high and low points, for travel, career, health, projects, skills, all setting the stage for what’s on the horizon for 2010.
“Adopt-a-Stop” is our idea for a web and mobile-enabled application for community members to find and share information about the five-block radius around each bus stop. As the name alludes, the service will encourage and empower individual community members to garden and curate and take ownership of an individual Facebook-style page for each stop.
Live on The Drive? Hung out there? Ever walk its streets and think, “This place is perfect! NEVER CHANGE!” Or, conversely, “Gawds, this place is awful, won’t someone please do something about it?” (Doubtful, but just covering the bases…)
This range of reactions is exactly what me and my class have been going through, every week [...]
Not being at the opening circle is a HUGE set-back when it’s a new crowd.
I clearly need to polish up on my how to have the “what is social media?” conversation; but under the circumstances, especially with such a thoughtful bunch, I think the group facilitated itself quite well.
A couple of weeks ago in class, [...]
I was lured out of my self-imposed school bubble yesterday by the lure of Fresh Media, an incredible event organized by the Incredibles over at SaveOurNet.ca. The focus of the event was exploring personal expression — written, analog, digital, whatever — for progressive social change. Held at a hidden gem on Hastings Street across from [...]
I’ve hinted here or there at what my latest gig is — on top of being a Master’s student, that is — and I’m now happy to be able to announce it because, after a few delays, my team and I were (finally!) able to launch our blog today.
Since mid-August, I have been working as [...]
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