Facilitating Change

Report from Webcamp Montreal, Part 3

Final part of this report: developing a digital plan for Quebec — Un Plan Numerique pour le Québec. We decided to Collaboratively create a first draft using a wiki. The city of Melbourne, one participant pointed out, uses a wiki for Future Melboure, the community of Melbourne’s long-term plan for the future direction of all aspects [...]

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Report from Webcamp Montreal, Part 2

As promised, here is Part 2 of my report from Webcamp Montreal. Again, only the shiny stuff… If you recall, we were talking about conversations and community. A community has to have: 1. une memoire / a memory 2. des sujets communs / shared topics I relate to the idea of a shared memory. I met a fellow Franco-Ontarian this [...]

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Report from Webcamp Montreal, Part 1

Thanks to Patrick (all my blogs will now start with this phrase!) today I attended Webcamp Montreal. Since I’m a practical girl, interested in facilitation and open space meetings, and think it’s important to document and share HOW we can work better together I’m starting out by sharing the meeting rules and non-rules. Rules 1. When you first [...]

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RiP: A remix manifesto

Thanks to Patrick (once again), I scored a ticket to the premiere of Brett Gaylor’s new film: RiP: A remix manifesto. I learned about the film on Véro’s blog a few weeks ago and really wanted to see it. Lately I’ve been thinking more and more about things open, creative commons, and remix (read/write) culture. So [...]

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Lydia Lunch at the Pop Montreal Symposium

I first learned about Lunch from Angry Women, a book I bought in the early 1990s. In it I met Diamanda Galas, Avital Ronell, Annie Sprinkle, Sapphire, and Susie Bright, among others, who opened to me whole new world of ideas and expanded my sense of what is possible.

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