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Anonymity and contempt in public engagement: correlation, not causation?

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Featured | tagged as anonymity, geoverification, privacy, pseudonymity, public engagement

A while back, Colleen Nystedt responded to my post about anonymity in public engagement. She’s said, several times, with reference to the challenges her platform PlaceSpeak is attempting to address, that “anonymity breeds contempt.” I had a comment in her response to her, but it was lost getting from the textbox I was typing in [...]

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Does pseudonymity matter for engagement in planning?

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Ideas, Technology | tagged as identity, planning, psuedonymity, public engagement

danah boyd writes on the recent Internet debate around Google banning the use of psuedonyms on its new social networking service, Google+. She writes, Over and over again, people keep pointing to Facebook as an example where “real names” policies work. This makes me laugh hysterically. One of the things that became patently clear to [...]

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Planning Technology 11 Conference & APA Conference Day 1 Notes & Takeaways

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Four dimensions, Technology | tagged as apa, comedy, conference, planning technology, plantech, public engagement

It’s Saturday at the APA National Conference. I would be attending an interesting-looking session on walkability and GIS, but by the time I arrived to the session at its designated start time, the crowd watching the session was spilling out the doorway and I decided I didn’t want to add to the fire evacuation risk, [...]

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Social media for public engagement and public consultation

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Ideas | tagged as consultation, policy literacy, public engagement, responsive organizations, service desig, transportation planning, twitter

I’m thinking and reading a lot about public engagement and public consultation right now. I’ve been fortunate to hear from people who have a lot of experience with public engagement, doing really interesting things to tease out the productive and constructive conversations that lead to visions, directions, ideas and guidance for governments on what the [...]

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Speaking: Digital Media Panel at SCARP Symposium on Planning for Resilience

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Scholarship | tagged as frances bula. social media, online engagement, planning, public engagement, resilience, scarp, symposium

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.

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SkyTrain Unconference

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Ideas, Technology, Unconferences | tagged as blogging, co-operation, co-optation, communities, public, public engagement, skytrain, skytrain unconference, translink

The last three weeks have been an absolute whirlwind of activity, new things happening at a terrifying pace that has left me with little time for much of anything. But the only way out of this big backlog of blogging is to start somewhere, so I will start with the most important. My biggest project [...]

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Tag Archives: public engagement

Anonymity and contempt in public engagement: correlation, not causation?

Does pseudonymity matter for engagement in planning?

Planning Technology 11 Conference & APA Conference Day 1 Notes & Takeaways

Social media for public engagement and public consultation

SkyTrain Unconference

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