Facilitating Change is written and edited by Christine Prefontaine. I work for Canada’s International Development Research Centre, leading telecentre.org’s knowledge sharing and communications team. I’m interested in community, collaboration, technology… a million other things too but those are at the top of my list these days. I love to create, share, and connect people. I spend ridiculous amounts of time discovering new ideas and approaches and figuring out how to use them to do things better. I am a mother. I live in Montreal, where I’m a member of Station C.
On this site you’ll find…
Action — Things you can do. Now.
Consume This — Content of note: articles, blogs, books, websites, videos, photos, podcasts, whatever. Stuff only my friends used to get via email. Lucky you.
Essays & Opinion — My own writing. These postings evolve over time. They’re ideas that I’m working through. I’ve adapted the open source “release early, release often” approach, publishing them before they’re done with the idea that I can work on them later — and in the meantime readers can provide feedback. This is a strategy to combat my perfectionist streak: just get the idea out. It’s also a way to get over my fear of failure and stick it to my crippling and negative self-critic — the voice inside me that’s always so quick to tell me how much my writing sucks and how stupid my ideas are. (Hopefully you don’t have one of those.) So comments on these posts are appreciated.
Events — Announcements for upcoming events. Observations from events I’ve attended.
Resources — A collection of things that I’ve learned, that I’ve used to do my work, or that are more in the how-to/practical genre. This section includes guides, bibliographies, theory, hacks, add-ons, and more.
