What is community?
Jesse Lyn Stoner recently posted Does Your Organization ASPIRE?. I love her posts for many reasons, not the least of which is that she posts within my comfort zone. She posts about vision, values, attitudes, leadership, team building, culture, purpose, collaboration… all the stuff I post about, read about, study, teach and promote. It’s all great [...]
It’s Not Apathy, It’s Barriers
During the last municipal election I had a rather disturbing conversation with one of the folks running for council. The gist of the conversation was that I believed that city hall, elected councillors and city staff could do a way better job of engaging, informing, inviting and generally including constituents in local initiatives, decisions and plans. His suggestion was that [...]
Engagement and Feedback with VoiceThread
I’m a student of engagement and feedback. I think they’re related on micro and macro levels. Perhaps even on a continuum. A micro engagement could be a small as a glance exchanged between two people. A macro engagement could be – no it doesn’t have to do with a ring – a community wide, civic [...]
