The Central Texas Planning Team for the NCDD2008 Conference is smokin’. I mean they are all over the place! They are canvasing Austin to promote the conference, solicit sponsorships, enlist volunteer support, encourage workshop leaders, attract bookstores, solicit donations, recruit media partners, and whatever else it will take to make the NCDD conference in Austin [...]
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The participants in the small groups at the Central Texas D&D Summit had almost forty-five minutes to share the lessons and insights they have gained during the course of their dialogue and deliberation work.
Steven Fearing set up the groups with the following comments.
This meeting is not a workshop on dialogue and deliberation techniques. Instead it [...]
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The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and UC Berkeley School of Information are hosting a conference on Online Deliberation. This from the announcement:
At the dawn of the 21st century humankind faces challenges of profound proportions. The ability of people around the world to discuss, work, make decisions, and take action collaboratively is one [...]
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[Original article posted on January 15, 2008 4:00 PM [...]
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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Dialogue and Deliberation Models, Facing Racism, Get Involved, Guest Bloggers, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate on June 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tavis’s show at PBS is now begining and it’s talking about the “Covenant with Black America.” The G21 team here, Allaina and I are Blogging on the event. It turns our that Yours Unruly is a celeb because I’m the only working journalist at the event. I was interviewed by a [...]
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Our table discussed some of the barriers and the impact that poor health care has on the larger community.
-”Language barriers for non-English speakers is a huge issue - health care providers who cannot communicate with patients is especially an issue in a state like Texas where we have ever increasing populations of non-English speakers.”
-”Despite the [...]
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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Civic Entrepreneurship, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Dialogue and Deliberation Models, Facing Racism, Idea Exchange, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
28 June 2007: This evening I’m reporting from the LBJ Library at the University of Texas (UT) on Tavis Smiley’s Public Broadcasting System (PBS) forum with the candidates for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. Like many other Bloggers here tonight, I’m suppose to be an ear to what our community [...]
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I’m not much of a graphic designer, but pictures appeal to my learning style. So, I thought I’d share a couple of more graphics I use to help me think about the process of framing issues.
This is a graphic of the process of framing the privacy issue that I’ve been using with some colleagues from [...]
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I’m working with E3 Alliance and Austin Voices for Education and Youth on community-wide deliberations on the Achievement Gap. (More details later.) In preparing our slides to explain this project to the school superintendents who are joining with us, Rick Olmos at E3 created a graphic that shows how the issues are framed around three [...]
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I’ve been thinking about how we can use youtube, innertoob (see example posted on this blog), OPAL (See examples in our archive), and other technologies to distribute content for moderators, reporters, recorders, and conveners to use to brush up on their skills or describe what these deliberative forums are all about.
So the other day, I [...]
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