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Comment on Inspired! by Viv McWaters

Viv McWaters — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:01:33 +0000

Happy to be of service – I look forward to sharing the journey.
Cheers, Viv

Comment on Social poetics: leading and managing from within the experience of joint action. by “Arresting moments” or “reminders”. – Blog @Emergence International

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:58:41 +0000

[...] of emails I intend to write to record my exploration of the notion of social poetics, a topic I introduced last week. The first of the “methods” I mentioned was the concept of ”arresting moments“. [...]

Comment on “Yes and” … or perhaps … “Yes, but I”. by “Coherence and closure are deep human desires …” – Blog @Emergence International

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:22:34 +0000

[...] I write about catch me by surprise. This one, the third of Ken Gergen and his co-authors’ suggestions for better ways of understanding dialogue, is a good example. On the surface the idea that dialogue [...]

Comment on Ambivalence: the optimal compromise? by Productive difference and the use of authority | Emergence International

Productive difference and the use of authority | Emergence International — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:06:31 +0000

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Comment on Conjunctions and Joint Enquiry by “Yes and” … or perhaps … “Yes, but I”. | Emergence International

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:49:39 +0000

[...] As a taster though it seems to me that the first of these – the extent to which any response in a dialogue or conversation affirms rather than negates the statement or utterance that immediately precedes it – is of great significance. This is not some prescription based on an ideology of niceness but a practical observation that, if the goal of our conversation is coordination in pursuit of social ends (ie ends that in some way transcend our individual wants and needs), then to negate what has just been said is to, at least partly, destroy or damage the relating. This is not to say that the response should or will agree – merely that it will acknowledge and build on what went before. Perhaps, in the broadest of terms this might be in the form of either a “YES … AND” or a “YES … BUT I ….” (I have written on this second option previously.) [...]

Comment on PublicSphere – Government 2.0 by Pia Waugh

Pia Waugh — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:21:08 +0000

Hi there,

Well, I’ll be putting up a first stab at the aggregated outcome from this Public Sphere on http://wiki.katelundy.com.au/ where you’ll find the briefing paper from the first Public Sphere event. I think this approach is quite useful, but we know it will take quite some tweaking to get the recipe right.

Thanks for the blog post! Your feedback is very useful.

Cheers,
Pia

Comment on “… users not the organisation at the centre ..” by Phillip Bonser

Phillip Bonser — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:22:27 +0000

I’ll be there!
Cheers
Phillip

Comment on “… users not the organisation at the centre ..” by readingroom_au

readingroom_au — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:50:01 +0000

It is fascinating how user generated content is being incorporated into governmental/supported organisation’s websites.

We’re excited to bring our learnings from the Australia Museum website redevelopment to this Monday’s Publicsphere event.

See you there?

Comment on “… users not the organisation at the centre ..” by Lynda Kelly

Lynda Kelly — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:46:34 +0000

Thanks for promoting our new site. We'll keep you posted on developments as I'm also blogging about that on a network called Museum 3.0