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Research Briefs: Simple tools to link research to practice

10. December 2009

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Briefs are important communication tools for linking research findings to policy and practice — and ultimately affecting change. Because face it: in the attention economy no one has time to read the full report. Here's the format we've developed at the Technology & Social Change Group for writing a research brief.

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Identica: Open microblogging & recipes in 140 characters or less

17. July 2009

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Identica: Open microblogging & recipes in 140 characters or less

Identica's commitment to open standards is hot. And all good technology shares this characteristic: People can figure out how to make it work for them. It's hackable. Just look at Twyka in Kenya and Naijapulse in Nigeria. And as for me? Tonight I discovered a group that shares recipes in 140 characters or less. Bliss.

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Virtual collaboration bibliography

8. June 2009

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How might we organize communications more effectively? My hypothesis: A distributed model will work better. (More on this later, you can see some preliminary thoughts in an article I wrote for telecentre.org.) My focus here is on developing a better way to work for distributed, multidisciplinary, cross-cultural teams. More specifically research teams, international development projects, social [...]

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Characteristics of university-based research groups

8. June 2009

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Today doing lots of reading and research on collaboration systems and practices for distributed teams. And especially for research teams. Tracey Lauriault (see also her datalibre.ca writing) gave me a paper she wrote on this with Fraser Taylor: Cybercartography and the New Economy: Collaborative Research in Action. I’ve not yet read the whole paper, but sharing [...]

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Social Reporting

29. May 2009

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I've been thinking about how to better document events for a while now. This came up again today during the OpenEverything organizing call. Documentation falls into a sad communication grey zone. The poor cousin of Event Design. Too many times an after-thought, with little resources or planning, left to a small group of people. The solution? Social Reporting.

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OpenMontreal, OpenEverything

29. May 2009

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As part of my work with Station C and Artefatica, I’ve been organizing with Sylvain Carle to hold an MontrealOuvert / OpenMontreal event in the fall. We had a planning meeting last April that went really well. I envisioned this as part of the OpenEverything movement, but really hadn’t done much about it. So I [...]

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WordPress: Blog not on home page

27. May 2009

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Sharing this with you because I had a hard time figuring it out. I googled, and only lots of found out-dated information and complicated plug-ins. Finally, I just asked Patrick. He sent me a quick, elegant answer: 1. Create a page with the title the same as the address you want for the blog. Usually “Blog” [...]

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A comic annual report

23. March 2009

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Face it: most annual report are boring and they suck. Reading or (worse) writing them will suck your life force, transforming you into a dry, withered shell that your loved ones will stare at and kick around, wondering what happened to you. And producing them will do the same to your organization’s time and financial [...]

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Communications guide for networks

2. December 2008

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Just finished posting the first draft of a communication guide for telecentre networks on my blog on the telecentre.org website. People who manage distributed teams will also find some good stuff in it. I’ll be developing some of the concepts here, but in a more generic form. Especially the eavesdropping model — a great alternative [...]

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Report from Webcamp Montreal, Part 1

12. November 2008

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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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Enterprise Microsharing Tools Comparison

2. November 2008

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Laura Fitton and the folks at Pistachio consulting have just released a Enterprise Microsharing Tools Comparison report, which compares nineteen applications that companies can use for microsharing inside of companies. You can download it from Scribd.com. Non-profits and social-change initiatives should look closely at how micro-sharing can work for them, as well as folks interested in [...]

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