Archives: Travel Back in Time

2025

• [FBT] on Softness and Screwed
• [FBT] on Anniversaries and Art

2024

• Podcasts I’m listening to in late 2024
• Activists, Campaigners and Advocates versus AI
• The Tao of WAO
• Cooperating through the use of AI
• We don’t have rum for you (sea shanty #2)
• Captain Planet and AI: Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and Heart
• How to build a co-design event
• Key Questions for User Research Design
• Building and Sustaining Engagement with the Digital Credentials Consortium
• Finding your activist friends
• Fractional Leadership in Social Impact Organisations
• Unpacking the foundations of Verifiable Credentials
• Building a Minimum Viable Community of Practice (MVCoP)
• How to find the right mental models for your audience

2023

• From Internal Changes to Expanding Networks
• From Sage on the Stage to Collaborator
• Radiating Confidence at Change.org
• Salty Sea Shanty
• Unlocking the Power of Open Recognition
• Discovering a Multimodal Training
• Exploring community learning pathways
• Deconstructing Power in the Age of AI
• Navigating Greenpeace’s Critical Incident Network
• 🎉🏅 Embracing Open Recognition at the Badge Summit 🏅🎉
• Improving the Accessibility of ‘The Tao of WAO’ Podcast
• Non-violent Communication in Communities
• Time’s Solitary Dance
• PsychOps for Mental Health Awareness Month
• Practical utopias and rewilding work
• “Deskilling” and AI as a Tool
• ORE is orbital
• Open Recognition is for Everybody: Time for a Bigger Tent
• Thoughts on AI: Scaremongering & Reassurance
• People. Process. Product.
• The Art of Community: Cultivating Online Connections
• The short walk
• Can we plz talk about privacy and security?
• Open Recognition is for every type of workplace

2022

• How to Gather Data on a Community of Practice
• 5 Practical Tips for Working Openly
• Quit writing documents, start making diagrams!
• Creating space to learn about Open Working
• Earning badges in openness
• How to be a great moderator
• An Architecture of Participation for Community growth
• Coming soon the Tao of WAO: Season 5!
• Summing up Badge Summit
• Keep Badges Weird is about breaking boundaries
• Reminding ourselves of things we already know
• How badges can change the world (Part 2)
• How badges can change the world
• Educate + Engage = Activate
• Advocating for learner-centric badge systems
• Audience Ikigai
• HOWTO: Set Open Standards for your project
• Emergent community building
• Join the Keep Badges Weird Community Call!
• Communicating with Intention

2021

• WAO Wraps up for the Holidays
• Open and Creative Climate Platform
• Designing Badges for Co-creation and Recognition
• Keep Badges Weird…at the Badge Summit
• Strategic Starfish: Another Co-op Day
• Tabby McTabface
• How to manage feedback on your open project
• Where does “work” come from?
• Spirit of WAO
• All good things come to an end…
• New ways to learn about open organizations
• culture, trauma, dissociation
• That’s a wrap!
• We’re not building “apps”
• HOWTO: Create an Architecture of Participation for your Charity tech project
• This week is all about [MAPPING]
• This week is all about [CATALYST]
• This week is all about [GATHERING]
• This week is all about [OPTIMIZING]
• Prototyping with Purpose: Catalyst Definition phase
• This week is all about [TINKERING]
• Moral and Refuge
• This week is all about [SETTLING]
• The Year of the Rebuild: Co-op 2.0
• This week is all about new [PROCESSES]
• Demands and Responsibilities

2020

• What colour is your bike shed?
• Cultivating Community
• The power of open source during a pandemic
• How an open community rebrands
• How the new P4 Architectures of Participation pair with our Community Strategy
• Quietly paying attention
• How an open project’s governance model evolves
• How to scale an open, energetic community
• Welcome Jen!
• This 50th Earth Day, activism is more important than ever
• Let’s build our ideal future
• We Are Open Co-op & Greenpeace Planet 4
• The Year of the Co-op
• 2020 Digital Leader of the Year
• Interviewing for an Open Leader
• Rating systems, livelihoods, intuition and the greater good

2019

• Open by nature: Building a platform for activists
• How collaboration fueled a development breakthrough at Greenpeace
• We are Co-op 2.0
• Fight for the planet: Building an open platform and open culture at Greenpeace
• Why do organizations have open secrets?
• Digital Trash? Google+
• Don’t wanna sell
• Welcome to 2019
• Here’s to the Crazy Ones
• Existential Trash

2018

• Have you seen these personalities in open source?
• Special features for campaigns
• Improving P4 in tandem
• Activist Dashboard: Show the world your impact
• Past the Prototype
• What Game of Thrones teaches us about working openly
• CoTech Community Call #3
• Management alone can’t drive open culture change
• We are all patients and carers
• Planet 4 is a Software, not a Design
• CoTech Community Call #2
• Help me Jekyll!
• CoTech Community Call: Episode One
• Mess with the dynamics: January Co-op Days

2017

• Supporting the collective: Co-ops, CoTech and Anti-capitalism
• Announcing the passbolt Community Forum
• Taking steps toward greater inclusivity
• Prototype Development Phase: Towards the launch of Greenpeace.org
• Content is complicated: let’s try to simplify
• A Collection of Voices: We Are Open Co-op Day: September 2017 Edition
• How to handle criticism of your open project
• The Badge Wiki barn raising gave us a frame…
• Greenpeace is a colourful organisation
• Social Media Before the Internet, Mindbombs & Media
• Designing the Planet 4 style tile: An Open Call for Creatives
• Planet 4 Design Brief: Refining the Concept
• What to do when your open team has impostor syndrome
• The Future of the Commons is an Open Planet
• Visual Drinkery: We Are Open Co-op Day March 2017 Edition
• Change is Everywhere: The Planet 4 Creative Concept
• 3 tips for helping creative people work openly
• Thinking about robots
• Developing the Creative Concept
• Put your name on the list and be proud of it
• What storytellers can teach open leaders

2016

• Actions Speak Louder than Words
• Release Early, Release Often
• We write for ourselves.
• Concept Phase: Calling all Creatives
• Are we post-capitalism yet?
• Greenpeace, the Open Organization and All Things Open 2016
• Once upon a time, we discovered…
• Why I can’t wait to represent at All Things Open
• Diversity & Inclusion: User Personas
• Mansplain Poem
• Let’s chat about Immersive Storytelling
• Using listening to show courage and break silos
• “Open leaves too many questions”
• A Sneak Peak at the Planet 4 Content Strategy
• Announcing Planet 4
• We’re turning a big ship
• Spreading Openness: Updates from a Greenpeace Community Call
• On the #Brexit
• Kicking off a courage conversation
• From Dogmatic Defender to Champion of the Impossible
• Open Courage
• Supporters to Change Agents
• What does it mean to be a hero among heroes?
• Pathways for Creative Leadership
• Please stop using the “Open Letter to…” headline for all your random crap.
• Fearing Failure to Fearless Innovation
• Secretive to Open Source in our Community Call
• Learning to understand social pressure
• On Solutions Driven Campaigning
• Introductory Ship’s Course
• Social norms: “professionalism”
• Freedom of Choice for the Greater Good?
• Mostly Wins in the Community Call
• How to run a Community Call
• Storytelling in January
• A Billion Acts Proposal
• 2015 and done.

2015

• On Being Fearless
• NEW Story Community Call
• Leadership should come with a smile
• Privacy/Security and Bullying
• Don’t be so negative!
• What is your problem? Or is it all in my head?
• Connecting Knowledge
• “They show up every day and do the work”
• The Calm Catalyst
• Reach outside the silo
• “We’re not ready to be open yet.”
• The No Tech School
• Privacy: Where’s your line?
• Leading Groups: Dealing with Too Cool for School & Other Personalities
• Where the Talent Goes
• Disconnecting to Reconnect
• Open is an attitude
• “Character Education” with quotes.
• Step by Step: Making Your Blog More Useful
• What’s next for Laura?
• Collapsing Open Leadership Strands
• Mozilla Academy Thoughts
• Iterating organizing structures
• Open Web Leadership
• Producing Teach Like Mozilla in the Open (with YOU!)
• Open Fluency
• On the Archive
• “Teach Like Mozilla” Development
• “Prove that people want to remix curriculum.”

2014

• Web Literacy Lensing: Identity
• Thinking Big and Learning Big
• Travel rants are boring.
• Order the Chaos
• Love the Lurkers
• New Modules at Webmaker Training
• Connected Courses
• Join Mozilla for global teach-ins on Net Neutrality
• Updates from the edge
• :For Librarians
• This Week in Webmaker Training: Building
• This Week in Webmaker Training: Exploring
• Webmaker Training Starts May 12th!
• Training with Friends
• Webmaker: An Open Educational Ecosystem (OEE)
• Webmaker Training: Why Modular?
• The Spark, the Confusion

2013

• Storycamp Teaching Kits
• Mentor Community Call December 5th
• “Making” as Creativity at the NWPAM13
• Mentor Team Meeting Nov. 6th
• My Thanks to Mozfesters
• Buy my novel at Lulu
• Part 2: Machine Learning & Serendipitous Communication
• the Future of Communication Part 1: The Session
• September Mentor Community Call
• Let’s Wing it!
• August Mentor Community Call
• OHM2013 Part 2 – Observing Segmentation, Pedagogy of Discomfort and impromptu Singing
• OHM 2013 Part 1
• The new Webmaker Mentor Call
• #teachtheweb: so you want to run a cMOOC
• Planning, Running, Visualizing #teachtheweb
• Reflecting on #teachtheweb Week 1: Making as Learning
• New hackable kit prototypes
• We Made It! Mentor Team Make Week
• Teach the Web (MOOC)
• Making, Curating and Sharing Resources
• Hacktivity Kits != Event Agenda, but they sure are close…
• Making is Learning (Chad Sansing)
• Just an Update
• This just in: MOOCs are all the rage right now
• Webmaker Mentors in 2013
• East Coast Tour Reflections
• My Intro for #ETMOOC
• the Mentor Community Says…

2012

• Conference Room
• Onyx
• The People Piece: Passion and Curiosity
• A Hivesque Network of Educators
• The Road to [Term TBD]: Semantics are fun.
• Mountains of Enrichment
• Mozilla wants YOU at Learning at MozFest 12
• What I write
• Escape
• Planning Escape
• Doctor
• Background
• Tonsillectomy
• 3.3 Bibliography
• 3.2 Appendix
• 3 Conclusion 3.1 Conclusion
• 2.4 Evaluation Methodology
• 2.3 Concept
• 2.2 Methodologies
• 2 Educational Concept 2.1 Introduction
• 1.6 Definitions
• 1.5 Literature Review
• 1.4 Research Methodology
• 1.3 Interest Groups
• 1.2 Target Audience
• 1.1 Background and Significance of the Problem
• Dedication & Acknowledgements
• Declaration and Copyleft
• Abstract
• Hacktivating Educators
• The Power of Contribution
• 1-Pagers and Contributing
• The Teacher Dashboard
• The #EdTech “Hysteria”
• Hacktivity Kits and Modular Curriculum
• Remixing with a Purpose
• OK Go…Be a Webmaker!
• And we have #StoryCamp liftoff!
• #Storycamp Starts its Countdown
• Responsible Storytelling
• Academic European Instructor Evil Robot
• It’s not *just* Popcorn
• Learning Projects for the Webpagemaker
• Weekend of Webmaking
• Initial Distill of Kitchen Table Lessons
• Kitchen Table Beta with Adults
• the Webmaker and the Meat of my Job Description
• Embedding Webmaking
• Book cover
• Embrace the BORING then get CREATIVE
• Rockin out at DML
• Web Literacy Micro-Models
• Web Literacy Models (Theory)
• Street {Code}
• More System Thinking (at a Micro-Level)
• System Thinking
• In Person Jamming
• Every laboratory needs a mad scientist
• Letter to the Senator
• Offline, Offroad, Off my Rocker

2011

• My Year in Review
• Hackjam Parking Lot
• Failure = Lesson Learned
• I like to read
• How the Web was Won
• Decontextualization of the Maker Mind
• Webcraft 101 Challenges
• Thinking about Mozfest
• Life is a Game
• 10 Days til MOZFEST!
• Assessing Learning
• Unfocused, yet fully awesome blog post
• What if Google is Just the Scribe of Time?
• Adjustment of Perception (ie Learning)
• Cyberspace and the “Virtualitätslagerung”
• Edutheories Round 1
• Response to Mozilla as teacher
• Give us the Easy Ask!
• Game Mechanics and Participation
• If I go there will be trouble, and if I stay it will be double…
• Friendly Tips for Keeping your Contributors
• Webify Me
• Newsle Pitch
• Feedback Session
• Overstimulating a User
• Melt My Brain
• Socializing the News
• Using the Web to Fix the World: Waldpark Trachau
• The Ins and Outs of an Interactive Project
• My PI Speech: Looking Back
• Fuck you Facebook
• Open Web and Why YOU Should be Paying Attention
• Scrivener Review
• Creative Lull
• Being Loud about Badges
• Blogging Study Group
• Death of “Death to America”?
• Distract, don’t retract
• Napkin Sketching
• Open Attribute Advances
• Restructuring
• Deleted Paragraphs
• Dear Tech News Orgs,
• Thanks, I needed that!
• I almost drowned in 5 inches of water and other reasons I can’t be productive today.
• Evolution of Cinema
• Designing in Code
• Perception of Corruption
• Sorry, you don’t have any experience
• Big Pharma and Radiation Scares
• GEZ
• The Web is PART of us
• the Webist
• Non Business Attire
• the BOOK
• Privacy is for Chumps.
• Evolution of the Homosapienīnfōrmāre