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  toronto transit camp in harvard business review!

  http://shotfromthehip.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/toronto-trans...
  101 days ago in shot from the hip · Authority: 20

  a big congratulations goes out to jay goldman, mark kuznicki and eli singer, as well as toronto’s passionate communities! their article, sick transit gloria, was featured in the harvard business review’s breakthrough ideas for 2008, and discusses the successes, challenges and possibilities that arose from toronto transitcamp, an event held in toronto exactly a year ago today. happy anniversary! a watershed moment to be sure, as new models of participation and communities dedicated to collaborative innovation create new space for dialogue between stakeholders, citizens, government agencies and business. w00000t!!
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  TransitCamp

  http://eaves.ca/2008/02/01/transitcamp/
  105 days ago in eaves.ca · Authority: 41

  Want to say congratulations to Jay Goldman, Eli Singer and Mark Kuznicki. Their article on TransitCamp has been published in the February 2008 issue of the Harvard Business Review. For those unfamiliar with the concept of an unconference - like TransitCamp or the opencities unconference we put on last year - the article is a great starting point. It’s a wonderful example about how citizens can be engaged in a truly meaningful way. As the website states: TransitCamp was - and will continue to be - a solution playground, not a complaints department. It is as much a celebration of transit as it is a place where people gather to figure out how to make it better. Much like a NFL game is as much about the tailgating, social/community oriented party in the stadium parking lot as it is about the serious game going on inside the stadium, TransitCamp is as much about celebrating and uniting the transit community as it is about the serious work of figuring out how to make the TTC better. And, to top it all off, it was a place where ideas get to flourish and are not subjected to consensus and other lowest common denominator approaches. This, and all sorts of other good reasons, is why HBR made it a breakthrough idea for 2008. (BTW: Go Pats Go) Share This
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  Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea: Toronto TransitCamp

  http://singer.to/2008/01/28/harvard-business-review-breakthr...
  109 days ago in Singer.to ~ Refreshing the daily grind · Authority: 35

  I’m thrilled to announce the publication of an article I co-authored with Jay Goldman and Mark Kuznicki in the February 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review. Our article Sick Transit Gloria, part of the Breakthrough Ideas of 2007 feature, demonstrates through the Toronto TransitCamp case study how Web 2.0 culture and tools can be brought to bear to affect change in an organization. This model of engagement is particularly relevant to organizations interested in benefiting from deeper relationships with stakeholders. My co-authors and I recognize that while our names appear in the byline of this article, the ideas and the event itself were created and inspired by a group of local community participants and peers, and global thought leaders. We would like to acknowledge those contributions and inspirations here: Our friends who helped make TransitCamp happen: Robert Ouellette, ReadingToronto; Tim Shore, BlogTO; David Topping, Torontoist; Matt Blackett, Spacing; Adam Giambrone; David Crow; Bryce Johnson; Joey Devilla; Madhava Enros; Michael Glenn; Misha Glouberman; Julia Breckenreid; Ryan Feeley; Kieran Huggins; Andrew Moore; Kevin Bracken & Lori Kuffner, Newmindspace; Rannie Turingan, photojunkie; Patrick Dinnen Friends and inspirations: Alec Saunders, Iotum; Amber MacArthur; Alex Lowy; Andrew Baron, Dembot; Anthony Williams; Arieh Singer; Audrey Carr, Between Us; Austin Hill, Billions with Zero Knowledge; Ben McConnel and Jackie Huba, Church of the Customer Blog; Bianca Goldman, A Wee Bit Skint; Bonnie, Ernie & Rachel, GreatCycling; Brian Oberkirch, Like it Matters; Cambrian House; Chris & Jessie, Istoica; Chris Anderson, The Long Tail; Chris Messina, FactoryCity; Colin Henderson, The Bankwatch; Colin Smillie; Cory Doctrow, Craphound; David Eaves; David Gray, Communication Nation; David Pritchard; David Weinberger, Everything Is Miscellaneous; Doc Searls; Don Tapscott; Elspeth Roundtree; Eric Goldman, Napoleon’s Gambit; Ev Williams, Evhead; Greg Wilson, The Third Bit; Guy Kawasaki, How to Change the World; Harold Rheingold; Hugh MacLeod, gapingvoid; Iris Glaser, Tailor Communications Design; Jason Kottke; James Bow, Transit Toronto; James Cherkoff, Modern Marketing; Jeannette Hanna & Jeff Howe, crowdsourcing; Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine; Jeremiah Owyang; Jesse Hirsh; Jevon MacDonald, socialwrite.com; Mike Beltzner; Joe Clark; John Battelle, Searchblog; John Moore, Brand Autopsy; Johnnie Moore; Joseph Thornley, Pro PR; Karen Quinn Fung; Kate Trgovac, My Name is Kate; C.C. Chapman; Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users; Kelly Seagram; Kenyatta Cheese, Braintag; Lawrence Lessig; Lee Goldman; Lee Odden; Leila Boujane, Idee, Inc.; Lloyd Alter, treehugger; Maggie Fox, Social Media Group; Mark Dowds, Mark Evans, A Canadian Take on the Web; Mark Raheja; Mark Surman, commonspace; Martin Cleaver; Matt Mason; Matt Mullenweg, Photo Matt; Matthew Dewall, Maybe Sorta Kinda; Matthew Ingram; Michael Anton Dila, Torch is Wicked; Michael Lenczner; Michael O’Connor Clarke; Michael Geist; Michael Seaton, The Client Side Blog; Michelle Perras, Shot From the Hip; Mitch Joel, Six Pixels of Separation; Nicholas Carr, Rough Type; Nikki Goldman; Om Malik, GigaOm; Peter Francey; Phil Hood;Richard Florida; Riccardo Cambiassi; Rob Hyndman; Robert Scoble, Scobleizer; Ryan Coleman Found in Translation; Saul Colt, The Smartest Man in the World; Scott Beale, Laughing Squid; Sean Howard, Craphammer; Sean P. Aune; Sean Wise; Seth Godin; Shel Israel, Global Neighbourhoods; Steve Munro; Steve Rubel, Micropersuasions; Stowe Boyd, /message; Stuart MacDonald; Sulemaan Ahmed; Tara Hunt, HorsePigCow; Michael Arrington and Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch; Thomas Purves; Tim O’Reilly; Todd Defren, PR Squared; Tom Davenport, Make IT Matter; Tom Williams, the $5 philanthropist; Tom Peters; Will Pate; Yochai Benkler
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  Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 28th

  http://www.falsepositives.com/index.php/2008/01/28/weird-won...
  108 days ago in False Positives · Authority: 5

  The Third Bit > The Wheel Turns >> a mechanism for “just in time assembly” of Ajax pages - Greg links to a paper that describes an automatic mechanism for splitting and stubbing JavaScript, sort of an “on-demand loading of dynamic libraries started to matter for desktop performance about fifteen years ago ;-).” The worm/wheel turns. - AJAX Javascript web2.0 development Canada, The Scariest Place On Earth? (or why does the government of Australia hate us) - I’m sure this is just a misunderstanding. Nothing to fear I have a crack team flying back to Australia to sort things out. (Have a safe flight J & R!) - Canada Australia Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea: Toronto TransitCamp - The HBR has a article how community and a public agency cames together to solve problems in an innovative new way, using social web technology, social media and design methods together with the Barcamp unconference framework. - camp Toronto socialsoftware business ajax, Australia, business, camp, Canada, development, fp, javascript, socialsoftware, Toronto, web2.0 Share This
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  Even public service organizations can ‘camp

  http://www.column2.com/2008/01/even-public-service-organizat...
  109 days ago in Column 2 by Sandy Kemsley : BPM, Enterprise 2.0 and technology trends in business. · Authority: 99

  http://www.column2.com/2008/01/even-public-service-organizations-can-camp/. Normally I would just provide a link to this in my daily Links post, but this is such a great example of how Open Space technology (e.g., BarCamp, MashupCamp) can be used for more than just holding geeky tech unconferences: last year, three people from the TorCamp community organized TransitCamp to provide a place for the Toronto Transit Commission (North America’s third largest, serving 2.4 million riders each day) and the local community to come together and generate new ideas about how to really make the TTC “the better way”. Today, the story of TransitCamp, “Sick Gloria Transit”, hit the Harvard Business Review as one of their breakthrough ideas for 2008. The article is written by Mark Kuznicki, Jay Goldman and Eli Singer; Mark’s post also contains a number of reference links, including a page of links on the TransitCamp site covering both unconferences and TransitCamp itself. I’ve attended several unconferences, although I missed TransitCamp last year, and I’ve been promoting the idea of the unconference as a format for business and technology conferences in the BPM space, but it’s a hard sell. One group of conference organizers that I approached with this had many reasons why it wouldn’t work, even though they have never attended an unconference, and most didn’t know what it was before the subject was broached. One response: “hopelessly techie.” I disagree: the unconference format has been used for many non-technical gatherings since Open Space Technology was first defined in 1986; it’s just that the tech community made it popular in the past few years. To quote the Wikipedia article, it “has been used in over 100 countries and in diverse settings, industries, cultures and situations - for program and product design, knowledge exchange, interdisciplinary thinking, conflict resolution and conferences.” TransitCamp is a great example of how unconferences can be used with a primarily non-technical group of participants to generate ideas for a definitely low-tech endeavour: improving our local transit.

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