I design open educational programs and participation initiatives here in the 21st Century. Technology is fast moving, and my work requires a good bit of conceptualization and invention to discover ways of empowering lots of people. This category is little bit meta, but the models, concepts and frameworks within are meta-ideas that might make something you’re working on easier. As with many of “my” thoughts and ideas, I must give credit to the inspiring thinkers who have helped me develop these ideas over the years. You know who you are!
by Open Org Ambassadors (including yours truly) and cross-posted on Opensource.com As we continue renovating the Open Organization community, we’ve been asking hard questions about… Read More »How an open project’s governance model evolves
To imagine alternative lives is an exercise from the Artist’s Way. Once you’ve determined who you would like to be, you’re supposed to do something… Read More »Let’s build our ideal future
Originally published Digital Trash? Google+ on Medium. Not sure if you remember/care at all, but Google Plus is dead in the water. It will be… Read More »Digital Trash? Google+
Co-op Days January 2019 originally published on the We Are Open Co-op blog Hello world, it’s me, Laura, reporting to you live in the sporadic fashion… Read More »Here’s to the Crazy Ones
Originally published Special features for campaigns on Medium. In March, we wrote a post about some pervasive problems at Greenpeace — mainly, microsites. We detailed many of… Read More »Special features for campaigns
cross-posted on medium On March 9, the year of our Lord 2018, Mr. Mathers and I traveled to the Royal Infirmary at the Edinburgh University… Read More »We are all patients and carers
cross-posted on medium In the latest Engagement Community Call two provocative agenda items drove the community — organisation — tech discussion: , the first “We suck at International Campaigning” and… Read More »Planet 4 is a Software, not a Design
For a while now, since realizing that co-op values and principles and open source ones overlap quite extensively, I’ve been noticing something interesting capitalism (or… Read More »Supporting the collective: Co-ops, CoTech and Anti-capitalism
cross-posted in Greenpeace’s Planet 4 publication on medium.com With little to no fanfare, the Design Phase of the Planet 4 project has come to an… Read More »Prototype Development Phase: Towards the launch of Greenpeace.org
cross-posted in Greenpeace’s Planet 4 publication on Medium Content can be simple… But when it needs to represent a dynamic, diverse, global organization like Greenpeace… Read More »Content is complicated: let’s try to simplify