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Dec 7, 2021

Remembering a Human, Being.

Doc Searls, yesterday, on his Harvard blog: “Got word yesterday that Kim Cameron had passed. Hit me hard. Kim was a loving and loved friend. He was also a brilliant and influential thinker and technologist.” Kim Cameron: among the few techies more human than tech. I only shared a few moments with Kim Cameron, but what came through loud and…

Kim Cameron

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Remembering a Human, Being.
Remembering a Human, Being.
Kim Cameron

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May 5, 2021

League of Technical Voters, at last.

The League of Technical Voters (“LoTV”) and its partner, the NewGov Foundation, through the GEOvoter API, are finally ready to launch a verified constituent Proof of Concept, as recommended by Phil Windley: “[Politicians] wonder, “Are all the angry tweets coming from voters in my district?” and likely conclude they’re not…

Politics

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League of Technical Voters, at last.
League of Technical Voters, at last.
Politics

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Apr 21, 2021

The VA “might” call you back…

I love the Palo Alto VA Hospital. It’s free for me and full of whip-smart Stanford Med School Residents. But the VA system has a nationwide problem: there’s no online patient portal to manage communication. Instead, all the communication is by phone, which means that you call to make an…

Va

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The VA “might” call you back…
The VA “might” call you back…
Va

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Apr 21, 2021

How to use a “microcoach”
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The best rule of all: Each of us is the traffic cop at the intersection our stakeholders' ROI goals.

The best rule of all: Each of us is the traffic cop at the intersection our stakeholders' ROI goals.

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The best rule of all: Each of us is the traffic cop at the intersection our stakeholders' ROI goals.

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Apr 20, 2021

Bloomberg Senator Loyalty Terminals

What Americans want to hear from Mike Bloomberg: Since 1982, I’ve prospered by helping people who buy and sell corporate ideas and promises. They call themselves “traders”. Traders call corporate ideas “stocks”. Traders call corporate promises “bonds”. I’ve helped them by selling Bloomberg Terminals to their employers, now installed on…

Politics

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Politics

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Mar 13, 2021

Bruce Preville’s Doctrine

Improv Yes/And rules: the secret to building online communities. — Bruce Preville and Chris Page are inspiring a few of us at People Centered Internet to help NICs—Networked Improvement Communities—become the best exemplars for engaging their stakeholders with a suite of tools for seamless evolution of random ideas into well-organized, easily followed threads. Catalytic Converter: Zooms to Rooms to Whom it may concern.

Community Engagement

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Bruce Preville’s Doctrine
Bruce Preville’s Doctrine
Community Engagement

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Mar 13, 2021

Brand new ideas from 2004

On Political Campaigns Originally published 5/19/04, as a subset of Democracy’s To-Do List What have we learned about campaigning in the Internet era? The Dean Campaign seemed to be the answer, but was not. In fact, it was a better-equipped iteration of many previous “breakthroughs”, like the Goldwater, McCarthy and Perot campaigns. But…

Community Engagement

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Brand new ideas from 2004
Brand new ideas from 2004
Community Engagement

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Feb 8, 2021

Upgrade USOS, the United States Operating System

Doc Searls, Harvard, 2008: “Note to selves: a lot of what Larry Lessig wants here is what Britt Blaser and friends are working on.” 12 years later, we can see the obvious next, potentially final, step: USOS upgrade: Committees make the laws: Mike Bloomberg’s Senate Loyalty Terminals What Americans want to hear from Mike Bloomberg: Since 1982, I’ve prospered by helping…

Mike Bloomberg

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Doc Searls, Harvard, 2008:
Doc Searls, Harvard, 2008:
Mike Bloomberg

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Jan 20, 2021

PCI GHD: Ideals, Ideas, Our deeds

Mei Lin Fung and Vint Cerf co-founded the People Centered Internet in 2015 with significant support from the UN. Mei Lin Fung: One of the most powerful tools in the hands of half of humankind, like fire, can be harnessed for good or bad. The People Centered Internet is just…

People Centered Internet

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People Centered Internet

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Dec 14, 2020

Manifest Destiny: Marshall Plan 2.0

We’re marveling in this week of the Pandemic at the ziggurat of competence, collaboration, and hard work of the contributors rolling out the first vaccine while the deposed Whiner-In-Chief, who couldn’t manage a two-car funeral, wails about his mistreatment. …

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Manifest Destiny/Marshall Plan 2.0
Manifest Destiny/Marshall Plan 2.0

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Britt Blaser

Britt Blaser

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Founder & CEO, NewGov.US. A public utility for managing politicians.

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