STRATEGIST & IDEA(L)IST
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👋 Hi! I’m an expert in open principles, community building, technology for a better world and some other things.
CURRENT ENDEAVOUR
Being cooperative.
We Are Open Co-op
I work independently on a variety of creative endeavors and enjoy working through We Are Open Co-op on complex client projects. The co-op members are crazy smart and overall fantastic humans. They’ve called me a “tech wizard”, “creative genius” and “expert facilitator”.
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Biography Basics.
I’m a generalist and a specialist. An open strategist. A facilitator. A writer. A technologist. An intellectual multipod. A skater. I’m a lot of things. I create bridges where community, technology and learning meet up.
I work with Greenpeace quite a bit. I spent over 5 years at Mozilla. I am a founding member of the We Are Open Co-op. I’ve failed at a start-up and succeeded at earning a Masters in Media & Education. I write books and make stuff.
I mostly work at trying to make the world a better, cleaner, more equitable place. I like decentralization and distributed leadership.
I’m a thinker and a maker. I teach, speak, collaborate, make and write to help organizations with digital transformation, leadership development, curriculum and open strategies. I work to build healthy, open communities and am an Ambassador for Opensource.com. Find out more about what I do or just get in touch!
STORAGE UNIT
Stuff I write.
Writing openly.
I write for the WAO blog, Greenpeace publications, Opensource.com and many other places on the web. Everything I write eventually ends up on this site, and there are posts here that don’t appear anywhere else. Have a search of the archives if you’re looking for something!
- Captain Planet and AI: Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and HeartIn the 80s, kids all across the US and likely the Western World, kids like me, used to watch Captain Planet, a superhero who came into being when 5 teenage climate warriors aimed their laser rings at each other: The co-op is working on a new project with Friends of the Earth, so we’ve been… Read More »Captain Planet and AI: Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and Heart
- Unpacking the foundations of Verifiable Credentialscross-posted on the WAO blog Did you ever consider that looking at a tree only reveals half of its story? Much like a tree’s roots, which stretch as a wide and deep as its branches, the visible aspect of technology barely scratches the surface. In this post, we’re going to look at the the underpinnings… Read More »Unpacking the foundations of Verifiable Credentials
- Building a Minimum Viable Community of Practice (MVCoP)cross-posted on the WAO blog At the end of the month, we’ll be gathering a number of community-based organisations, interns and faculty in an online design workshop to jump start a Community of Practice together with Cal State University and Participate. This community, supported through the Internet for All programme, will provide an online space… Read More »Building a Minimum Viable Community of Practice (MVCoP)