Remarkk! » casestudy http://remarkk.com OPEN creative communities Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:22:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 ChangeCamp: Not your father’s public meeting http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/ http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=695 ChangeCamp Halifax was held Saturday, December 5th at the Hub and from all reports was a great success. Congratulations to Emily Richardson, the lead organizer. I gave Emily some coaching along the way and she had some great help in facilitator Sera Thompson of ALIA Institute. For more about the Halifax event and other ChangeCamps across Canada, see the ChangeCamp blog and wiki. ]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/feed/ 3 The Impact of ChangeCamp http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/ http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:44:23 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=542 Cross-posted from ChangeCamp.ca As one of the instigators of ChangeCamp at MaRS in Toronto on January 24th, I have spent much of the past 10 days trying to process all the content, ideas, outcomes and possibilities that it generated. It's been a little overwhelming. Clearly we tapped a rich vein of attention. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="537" caption="Wordle (Merkley, transcribed) by Suzanne Long"][/caption] So what did we do together? Let's do a quick rundown of the numbers: That's a lot of heat from our ChangeCamp fire! But how much light was there? How much change was made? What was the quality of the products of our co-creation? To my mind, the jury is still out on this question. A lot will happen not at ChangeCamp, but in the weeks and months to come because of ChangeCamp. We need to hear, share and tell those stories. We need your help:
  1. Please complete our Participant Survey
  2. Please leave your comments on this blog post. Don't be shy, don't be overly polite. We have thick skins.
  3. If you prefer to be discrete, send an email to changecamp@remarkk.com.
  4. Have more feedback? Write a post about what worked, what didn't and ideas for the future, like this, this, this, this or this.
The organizers came to this event with modest goals: to ignite and accelerate a new conversation about the shifting ideas of government and citizenship in this "age of participation", enabled by new tools and thanks to the web. Based on the buzz in online social media, traditional media and face-to-face conversations, I think we can safely say that we achieved that modest goal. For people in other cities and countries that have been inspired by the ChangeCamp idea, it is important to understand all the preparatory ground work that made ChangeCamp a success in Toronto. An event of this kind is all about having the right mix of participants. Engaging that mix from government, technology, design, social innovation and media-making was key to our success. Toronto is blessed by a dense cluster of some of the most talented designers, developers, creators and social innovators in the world. Toronto is also home to one of the most connected and innovative BarCamp and Twitter communities in the world, who have been using online tools together with face-to-face events to create change in areas of civic life outside the technology sector. We have leaders like Mark Surman of Mozilla Foundation who laid the groundwork within our City government, opening the door to open data. We had a recent "Web 2.0 Summit" event at City Hall where social media and open data in the context of government had centre stage in front of an influential audience both at the City and the Province. We have a Mayor who said:
When you open up the data, there's no limit to what people can do. It engages the imagination of citizens in building the city.
What direction does ChangeCamp go next? That's another post. We want to make sure that our emerging community has lots of opportunity to inform its future direction, to participate in it, to get involved in many new ways. We can't do it all, we can't do it alone, we can't boil the ocean, but we can start with some small steps that in the long-run can enable major change. Please read after the jump and give all the originators, organizers, contributors, sponsors and supporters some love. They deserve it. I'm sure I've missed a couple of people, so raise your hand at changecamp@remarkk.com if I missed you! ChangeCamp would not have been possible if not for the contributions of so many: Origins: Mark Surman at Mozilla Foundation, Tonya Surman at Centre for Social Innovation, Mayor David Miller and the City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit, David Crow and BarCamp Toronto, TransitCamp, OpenEverything, TVO's AgendaCamp, #HoHoTO. Organizers & Contributors: Mark Kuznicki, Daniel Rose, Meghan Warby, Lisa Torjman, Ryan Taylor, Matthew Milan, Sean Howard, Meghan Warby, Gerry Kirk, Rohan Jayasekera, David Eaves, Ryan Merkley, Darren Chartier, Suzanne Long, Will Pate, Jennifer Bell, Michael Cayley, Duarte Da Silva, Blair Francey, Martin Kuplens-Ewart, Alistair Morton, Mark McKay, Dan Hocking, Michele Perras, Heather Williams, Matt Nish-Lapidus, Justin Kozuch, Mark Bondyra, Sandy Kemsley Sponsors: SiG@MaRS, MaRS Centre, City of Toronto, Churchill Society, MASS LBP, Torch Partnership, Samara, Remarkk!, Omakase Group, Peapod Studios, Apolitic, Unspace, BFDesign Community Supporters & Donators: Sebastien Chorney, Kevin Lee, Wesley Hodgson, Aidan Nulman, Lee Dale, Peter Jones, Phil Nelson, Pamela Quiroga, Andrae Griffith, Marc-Antoine Parent, Kieran Huggins, Peter Smith, Keith Stephan-Giermek, Ellen Michelson, Miroslav Glavic, Gillian Kerr, Jennifer Bell, Zeena Abdulla, Alex Sirota, Andre Gaulin, Mario Bourque, Patrick Robinson, Matthew Milan, Geoff Whitlock, Patrick Dinnen, Andrew Lockhart, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Eric Squair, This Magazine (Graham F. Scott), Lucia Mancuso Mancuso, Sappho Mullins, Ryan Taylor, Meghan Warby, David Janes, Ryan Merkley, Stephen Chanasyk, Darren Chartier, Duarte Da Silva, Kurt Gooden, Rohan Jayasekera, Michael Jones]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/feed/ 3 Public Media 2.0: TVO’s The Agenda on the Road, pt.1 http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/ http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:51:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=387 Dan and I are still processing the impact and learnings of the first AgendaCamp and TVO's The Agenda on the Road, which took place in Windsor earlier this week. Overall, it was a huge success and something we're going to build upon for the next four events and shows in other communities. The best part for me was the end of day reaction of Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda and one of Canada's most respected journalistic talents. The format called for 6 simultaneous 1 hour sessions. After 50 minutes, participants were asked to wrap up their discussion and tasked to produce a 2 and a half minute video that summarized their conversation using our inexpensive Flip Video cameras. It proved to be a powerful format and we will tweak it in order to help gather even more and better video content from our amazing participants. You can check out the content on the budding AgendaCamp wiki, YouTube, Flickr and get content updates by following AgendaCamp on Twitter. We just love our participants' passion and we felt their desire to come together as a community to make the place they call home a better place. They tackled the big questions of economic renewal in the context of a rapidly declining auto industry, and they planted their seeds of their own future. The next step is to support this budding community as they continue their work together, providing them with tools to help their collaboration and ongoing conversations. I hope that we can find a way to connect this grassroots energy and enthusiasm to power and influence in a way that can meaningfully effect change, but that really depends on the community. The thing we're most interested in seeing evolve is how AgendaCamp participants and content interact with the broadcast. With five events, five shows and five different producers in five communities, we'll get to see a number of variations on this combination of bottom-up engagement, online interaction and major current affairs broadcast platform. So much fascinating stuff! We're excited for the next event in Sault Ste. Marie November 16th and 17th.]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/feed/ 0 AgendaCamp: Citizen-driven economic intelligence http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/ http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:45:20 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=339 0 billion in new money being printed by the Federal Reserve together with central banks around the world and sudden and frightening drops in global stock markets. Meanwhile, news that talks on Canada-EU economic integration are due to begin mere days after the Canadian federal election has gone largely unnoticed. It is clear that we are not living in normal times. How will this instability in the system affect citizens and businesses in the places they call home?  Even before the Wall Street meltdown, Ontario's local and regional economies were under stress and changing rapidly. The current crisis appears likely to accelerate and exacerbate these changes. It is said that all politics are local. What about economies? Dan Dunsky, Executive Producer of TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, believes that we need to think about Ontario's economies in the plural and his team has identified that major sectors of Ontario's economy correspond to our geographic landscape and its people in specific places. How do these places and people adapt to global forces that are largely outside of their control? How can we get ahead of the change curve and make our regions more resilient and adaptable to accelerating change? To tackle this critically important question about our future well-being, TVO is launching an innovative new project that brings together collaborative events and social media together with premier broadcast journalism and expert inquiry.  I am advising and supporting TVO for this project, "The Agenda with Steve Paikin: on the Road" & AgendaCamp. We're looking for participants - like you. More after the jump... Ontario's trade manufacturing economy is concentrated along the highway 401 corridor of southwestern Ontario particularly close to the US-Canada border. Ontario's natural resources sector dominates our vast northern expanse.  Eastern Ontario is home to a rich rural economy located in places with storied histories since before Confederation.  Ontario's native people made a sustainable living from the lakes and forests across Ontario long before Europeans arrived. Ontario's burgeoning knowledge-based and technology-driven economy is concentrated in places like Waterloo, Greater Toronto and Ottawa but is also popping up anyplace where talent and connectivity can find a suitable home. The Agenda is going on the road to find these economies and their people and engage them in a new conversation about their challenges and future opportunities.  The first show and event will take place in less than three weeks in Windsor (October 19th and 20th), followed by Sault Ste. Marie (November 16th and 17th). The audacious format looks like this:
  1. AgendaCamp: an all-day Sunday participatory event, similar to the Barcamp model of unconference, that takes place face-to-face and is also live-blogged, with video capture and other social media content uploaded to the web in near realtime
  2. The Agenda on the Road: a live-to-air broadcast hosted Monday evening by Steve Paikin featuring a panel of invited guests and a studio audience, where the best AgendaCamp ideas can find a larger audience
AgendaCamp is looking for:
  • local citizens and business-people
  • academic experts and bloggers
  • policy-makers and politicians
  • artists and technologists
  • bankers and social activists
- really anybody who has a stake, an opinion and a passion for the subject of the economy and it's impact on our communities and our lives.  If you are interested in participating in AgendaCamp please register your email address at http://tvo.org/agendacamp/ for more information or email me at mark@remarkk.com. Thanks to collaborators Sean Howard and Daniel Rose for being part of this project. We're enjoying working together with Steve Paikin, Mike Miner and the rest of the TVO team. My dream list of participants from across the web and blogosphere includes: Richard Florida, Anthony Williams, Naomi Klein, David Eaves, Deborah Leslie, David Wolfe, Meric Gertler, John Britton, David Crow, Jevon MacDonald, Warren Kinsella, Andrew Coyne, Kate Trgovac, Bob LeDrew, Canadian Silver Bug, James Bow, Kate McMillan (small dead animals), Uncorrected Proofs, Steve Janke (Angry in the Great White North), Zednik (A View from the Right), Graeme Steward (Nunc Scio),  More Notes from the Underground, Canada's World, Another Point of View, Dr. Dawg (Dawg's Blog). Who am I missing? You? ]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/feed/ 7 Mesh08 – Government 2.0 http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 19:52:42 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ Sean Howard, I co-presented a workshop at Mesh08, "Government 2.0: From Community Participation to Co-creation". I have uploaded the presentation at Slideshare. This workshop was built around the still in progress Metronauts case study, an innovation in participatory research and engagement for Metrolinx as it develops a Regional Transportation Plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).
We had a standing room only crowd at the end of Day 1, with many government folks in the crowd from all levels of government. The reviews were great, with several people coming up at the end to say it was the best session they'd see in the day, so I'm happy with how it went. We were caught short on time for discussion, so I hope some of the participants in the workshop find this post and leave questions here in the comments. Nice to meet you all!]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/feed/ 3 Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea: Toronto TransitCamp http://remarkk.com OPEN creative communities Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:22:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Remarkk! » casestudy http://remarkk.com OPEN creative communities Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:22:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 ChangeCamp: Not your father’s public meeting http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/ http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=695 ChangeCamp Halifax was held Saturday, December 5th at the Hub and from all reports was a great success. Congratulations to Emily Richardson, the lead organizer. I gave Emily some coaching along the way and she had some great help in facilitator Sera Thompson of ALIA Institute. For more about the Halifax event and other ChangeCamps across Canada, see the ChangeCamp blog and wiki. ]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/feed/ 3 The Impact of ChangeCamp http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/ http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:44:23 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=542 Cross-posted from ChangeCamp.ca As one of the instigators of ChangeCamp at MaRS in Toronto on January 24th, I have spent much of the past 10 days trying to process all the content, ideas, outcomes and possibilities that it generated. It's been a little overwhelming. Clearly we tapped a rich vein of attention. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="537" caption="Wordle (Merkley, transcribed) by Suzanne Long"][/caption] So what did we do together? Let's do a quick rundown of the numbers: That's a lot of heat from our ChangeCamp fire! But how much light was there? How much change was made? What was the quality of the products of our co-creation? To my mind, the jury is still out on this question. A lot will happen not at ChangeCamp, but in the weeks and months to come because of ChangeCamp. We need to hear, share and tell those stories. We need your help:
  1. Please complete our Participant Survey
  2. Please leave your comments on this blog post. Don't be shy, don't be overly polite. We have thick skins.
  3. If you prefer to be discrete, send an email to changecamp@remarkk.com.
  4. Have more feedback? Write a post about what worked, what didn't and ideas for the future, like this, this, this, this or this.
The organizers came to this event with modest goals: to ignite and accelerate a new conversation about the shifting ideas of government and citizenship in this "age of participation", enabled by new tools and thanks to the web. Based on the buzz in online social media, traditional media and face-to-face conversations, I think we can safely say that we achieved that modest goal. For people in other cities and countries that have been inspired by the ChangeCamp idea, it is important to understand all the preparatory ground work that made ChangeCamp a success in Toronto. An event of this kind is all about having the right mix of participants. Engaging that mix from government, technology, design, social innovation and media-making was key to our success. Toronto is blessed by a dense cluster of some of the most talented designers, developers, creators and social innovators in the world. Toronto is also home to one of the most connected and innovative BarCamp and Twitter communities in the world, who have been using online tools together with face-to-face events to create change in areas of civic life outside the technology sector. We have leaders like Mark Surman of Mozilla Foundation who laid the groundwork within our City government, opening the door to open data. We had a recent "Web 2.0 Summit" event at City Hall where social media and open data in the context of government had centre stage in front of an influential audience both at the City and the Province. We have a Mayor who said:
When you open up the data, there's no limit to what people can do. It engages the imagination of citizens in building the city.
What direction does ChangeCamp go next? That's another post. We want to make sure that our emerging community has lots of opportunity to inform its future direction, to participate in it, to get involved in many new ways. We can't do it all, we can't do it alone, we can't boil the ocean, but we can start with some small steps that in the long-run can enable major change. Please read after the jump and give all the originators, organizers, contributors, sponsors and supporters some love. They deserve it. I'm sure I've missed a couple of people, so raise your hand at changecamp@remarkk.com if I missed you! ChangeCamp would not have been possible if not for the contributions of so many: Origins: Mark Surman at Mozilla Foundation, Tonya Surman at Centre for Social Innovation, Mayor David Miller and the City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit, David Crow and BarCamp Toronto, TransitCamp, OpenEverything, TVO's AgendaCamp, #HoHoTO. Organizers & Contributors: Mark Kuznicki, Daniel Rose, Meghan Warby, Lisa Torjman, Ryan Taylor, Matthew Milan, Sean Howard, Meghan Warby, Gerry Kirk, Rohan Jayasekera, David Eaves, Ryan Merkley, Darren Chartier, Suzanne Long, Will Pate, Jennifer Bell, Michael Cayley, Duarte Da Silva, Blair Francey, Martin Kuplens-Ewart, Alistair Morton, Mark McKay, Dan Hocking, Michele Perras, Heather Williams, Matt Nish-Lapidus, Justin Kozuch, Mark Bondyra, Sandy Kemsley Sponsors: SiG@MaRS, MaRS Centre, City of Toronto, Churchill Society, MASS LBP, Torch Partnership, Samara, Remarkk!, Omakase Group, Peapod Studios, Apolitic, Unspace, BFDesign Community Supporters & Donators: Sebastien Chorney, Kevin Lee, Wesley Hodgson, Aidan Nulman, Lee Dale, Peter Jones, Phil Nelson, Pamela Quiroga, Andrae Griffith, Marc-Antoine Parent, Kieran Huggins, Peter Smith, Keith Stephan-Giermek, Ellen Michelson, Miroslav Glavic, Gillian Kerr, Jennifer Bell, Zeena Abdulla, Alex Sirota, Andre Gaulin, Mario Bourque, Patrick Robinson, Matthew Milan, Geoff Whitlock, Patrick Dinnen, Andrew Lockhart, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Eric Squair, This Magazine (Graham F. Scott), Lucia Mancuso Mancuso, Sappho Mullins, Ryan Taylor, Meghan Warby, David Janes, Ryan Merkley, Stephen Chanasyk, Darren Chartier, Duarte Da Silva, Kurt Gooden, Rohan Jayasekera, Michael Jones]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/feed/ 3 Public Media 2.0: TVO’s The Agenda on the Road, pt.1 http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/ http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:51:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=387 Dan and I are still processing the impact and learnings of the first AgendaCamp and TVO's The Agenda on the Road, which took place in Windsor earlier this week. Overall, it was a huge success and something we're going to build upon for the next four events and shows in other communities. The best part for me was the end of day reaction of Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda and one of Canada's most respected journalistic talents. The format called for 6 simultaneous 1 hour sessions. After 50 minutes, participants were asked to wrap up their discussion and tasked to produce a 2 and a half minute video that summarized their conversation using our inexpensive Flip Video cameras. It proved to be a powerful format and we will tweak it in order to help gather even more and better video content from our amazing participants. You can check out the content on the budding AgendaCamp wiki, YouTube, Flickr and get content updates by following AgendaCamp on Twitter. We just love our participants' passion and we felt their desire to come together as a community to make the place they call home a better place. They tackled the big questions of economic renewal in the context of a rapidly declining auto industry, and they planted their seeds of their own future. The next step is to support this budding community as they continue their work together, providing them with tools to help their collaboration and ongoing conversations. I hope that we can find a way to connect this grassroots energy and enthusiasm to power and influence in a way that can meaningfully effect change, but that really depends on the community. The thing we're most interested in seeing evolve is how AgendaCamp participants and content interact with the broadcast. With five events, five shows and five different producers in five communities, we'll get to see a number of variations on this combination of bottom-up engagement, online interaction and major current affairs broadcast platform. So much fascinating stuff! We're excited for the next event in Sault Ste. Marie November 16th and 17th.]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/feed/ 0 AgendaCamp: Citizen-driven economic intelligence http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/ http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:45:20 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=339 0 billion in new money being printed by the Federal Reserve together with central banks around the world and sudden and frightening drops in global stock markets. Meanwhile, news that talks on Canada-EU economic integration are due to begin mere days after the Canadian federal election has gone largely unnoticed. It is clear that we are not living in normal times. How will this instability in the system affect citizens and businesses in the places they call home?  Even before the Wall Street meltdown, Ontario's local and regional economies were under stress and changing rapidly. The current crisis appears likely to accelerate and exacerbate these changes. It is said that all politics are local. What about economies? Dan Dunsky, Executive Producer of TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, believes that we need to think about Ontario's economies in the plural and his team has identified that major sectors of Ontario's economy correspond to our geographic landscape and its people in specific places. How do these places and people adapt to global forces that are largely outside of their control? How can we get ahead of the change curve and make our regions more resilient and adaptable to accelerating change? To tackle this critically important question about our future well-being, TVO is launching an innovative new project that brings together collaborative events and social media together with premier broadcast journalism and expert inquiry.  I am advising and supporting TVO for this project, "The Agenda with Steve Paikin: on the Road" & AgendaCamp. We're looking for participants - like you. More after the jump... Ontario's trade manufacturing economy is concentrated along the highway 401 corridor of southwestern Ontario particularly close to the US-Canada border. Ontario's natural resources sector dominates our vast northern expanse.  Eastern Ontario is home to a rich rural economy located in places with storied histories since before Confederation.  Ontario's native people made a sustainable living from the lakes and forests across Ontario long before Europeans arrived. Ontario's burgeoning knowledge-based and technology-driven economy is concentrated in places like Waterloo, Greater Toronto and Ottawa but is also popping up anyplace where talent and connectivity can find a suitable home. The Agenda is going on the road to find these economies and their people and engage them in a new conversation about their challenges and future opportunities.  The first show and event will take place in less than three weeks in Windsor (October 19th and 20th), followed by Sault Ste. Marie (November 16th and 17th). The audacious format looks like this:
  1. AgendaCamp: an all-day Sunday participatory event, similar to the Barcamp model of unconference, that takes place face-to-face and is also live-blogged, with video capture and other social media content uploaded to the web in near realtime
  2. The Agenda on the Road: a live-to-air broadcast hosted Monday evening by Steve Paikin featuring a panel of invited guests and a studio audience, where the best AgendaCamp ideas can find a larger audience
AgendaCamp is looking for:
  • local citizens and business-people
  • academic experts and bloggers
  • policy-makers and politicians
  • artists and technologists
  • bankers and social activists
- really anybody who has a stake, an opinion and a passion for the subject of the economy and it's impact on our communities and our lives.  If you are interested in participating in AgendaCamp please register your email address at http://tvo.org/agendacamp/ for more information or email me at mark@remarkk.com. Thanks to collaborators Sean Howard and Daniel Rose for being part of this project. We're enjoying working together with Steve Paikin, Mike Miner and the rest of the TVO team. My dream list of participants from across the web and blogosphere includes: Richard Florida, Anthony Williams, Naomi Klein, David Eaves, Deborah Leslie, David Wolfe, Meric Gertler, John Britton, David Crow, Jevon MacDonald, Warren Kinsella, Andrew Coyne, Kate Trgovac, Bob LeDrew, Canadian Silver Bug, James Bow, Kate McMillan (small dead animals), Uncorrected Proofs, Steve Janke (Angry in the Great White North), Zednik (A View from the Right), Graeme Steward (Nunc Scio),  More Notes from the Underground, Canada's World, Another Point of View, Dr. Dawg (Dawg's Blog). Who am I missing? You? ]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/feed/ 7 Mesh08 – Government 2.0 http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 19:52:42 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ Sean Howard, I co-presented a workshop at Mesh08, "Government 2.0: From Community Participation to Co-creation". I have uploaded the presentation at Slideshare. This workshop was built around the still in progress Metronauts case study, an innovation in participatory research and engagement for Metrolinx as it develops a Regional Transportation Plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).
We had a standing room only crowd at the end of Day 1, with many government folks in the crowd from all levels of government. The reviews were great, with several people coming up at the end to say it was the best session they'd see in the day, so I'm happy with how it went. We were caught short on time for discussion, so I hope some of the participants in the workshop find this post and leave questions here in the comments. Nice to meet you all!]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/feed/ 3 Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea: Toronto TransitCamp http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/ http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=695 ChangeCamp Halifax was held Saturday, December 5th at the Hub and from all reports was a great success. Congratulations to Emily Richardson, the lead organizer. I gave Emily some coaching along the way and she had some great help in facilitator Sera Thompson of ALIA Institute. For more about the Halifax event and other ChangeCamps across Canada, see the ChangeCamp blog and wiki. ]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/feed/ 3 Remarkk! » casestudy http://remarkk.com OPEN creative communities Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:22:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 ChangeCamp: Not your father’s public meeting http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/ http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=695 ChangeCamp Halifax was held Saturday, December 5th at the Hub and from all reports was a great success. Congratulations to Emily Richardson, the lead organizer. I gave Emily some coaching along the way and she had some great help in facilitator Sera Thompson of ALIA Institute. For more about the Halifax event and other ChangeCamps across Canada, see the ChangeCamp blog and wiki. ]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/feed/ 3 The Impact of ChangeCamp http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/ http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:44:23 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=542 Cross-posted from ChangeCamp.ca As one of the instigators of ChangeCamp at MaRS in Toronto on January 24th, I have spent much of the past 10 days trying to process all the content, ideas, outcomes and possibilities that it generated. It's been a little overwhelming. Clearly we tapped a rich vein of attention. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="537" caption="Wordle (Merkley, transcribed) by Suzanne Long"][/caption] So what did we do together? Let's do a quick rundown of the numbers: That's a lot of heat from our ChangeCamp fire! But how much light was there? How much change was made? What was the quality of the products of our co-creation? To my mind, the jury is still out on this question. A lot will happen not at ChangeCamp, but in the weeks and months to come because of ChangeCamp. We need to hear, share and tell those stories. We need your help:
  1. Please complete our Participant Survey
  2. Please leave your comments on this blog post. Don't be shy, don't be overly polite. We have thick skins.
  3. If you prefer to be discrete, send an email to changecamp@remarkk.com.
  4. Have more feedback? Write a post about what worked, what didn't and ideas for the future, like this, this, this, this or this.
The organizers came to this event with modest goals: to ignite and accelerate a new conversation about the shifting ideas of government and citizenship in this "age of participation", enabled by new tools and thanks to the web. Based on the buzz in online social media, traditional media and face-to-face conversations, I think we can safely say that we achieved that modest goal. For people in other cities and countries that have been inspired by the ChangeCamp idea, it is important to understand all the preparatory ground work that made ChangeCamp a success in Toronto. An event of this kind is all about having the right mix of participants. Engaging that mix from government, technology, design, social innovation and media-making was key to our success. Toronto is blessed by a dense cluster of some of the most talented designers, developers, creators and social innovators in the world. Toronto is also home to one of the most connected and innovative BarCamp and Twitter communities in the world, who have been using online tools together with face-to-face events to create change in areas of civic life outside the technology sector. We have leaders like Mark Surman of Mozilla Foundation who laid the groundwork within our City government, opening the door to open data. We had a recent "Web 2.0 Summit" event at City Hall where social media and open data in the context of government had centre stage in front of an influential audience both at the City and the Province. We have a Mayor who said:
When you open up the data, there's no limit to what people can do. It engages the imagination of citizens in building the city.
What direction does ChangeCamp go next? That's another post. We want to make sure that our emerging community has lots of opportunity to inform its future direction, to participate in it, to get involved in many new ways. We can't do it all, we can't do it alone, we can't boil the ocean, but we can start with some small steps that in the long-run can enable major change. Please read after the jump and give all the originators, organizers, contributors, sponsors and supporters some love. They deserve it. I'm sure I've missed a couple of people, so raise your hand at changecamp@remarkk.com if I missed you! ChangeCamp would not have been possible if not for the contributions of so many: Origins: Mark Surman at Mozilla Foundation, Tonya Surman at Centre for Social Innovation, Mayor David Miller and the City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit, David Crow and BarCamp Toronto, TransitCamp, OpenEverything, TVO's AgendaCamp, #HoHoTO. Organizers & Contributors: Mark Kuznicki, Daniel Rose, Meghan Warby, Lisa Torjman, Ryan Taylor, Matthew Milan, Sean Howard, Meghan Warby, Gerry Kirk, Rohan Jayasekera, David Eaves, Ryan Merkley, Darren Chartier, Suzanne Long, Will Pate, Jennifer Bell, Michael Cayley, Duarte Da Silva, Blair Francey, Martin Kuplens-Ewart, Alistair Morton, Mark McKay, Dan Hocking, Michele Perras, Heather Williams, Matt Nish-Lapidus, Justin Kozuch, Mark Bondyra, Sandy Kemsley Sponsors: SiG@MaRS, MaRS Centre, City of Toronto, Churchill Society, MASS LBP, Torch Partnership, Samara, Remarkk!, Omakase Group, Peapod Studios, Apolitic, Unspace, BFDesign Community Supporters & Donators: Sebastien Chorney, Kevin Lee, Wesley Hodgson, Aidan Nulman, Lee Dale, Peter Jones, Phil Nelson, Pamela Quiroga, Andrae Griffith, Marc-Antoine Parent, Kieran Huggins, Peter Smith, Keith Stephan-Giermek, Ellen Michelson, Miroslav Glavic, Gillian Kerr, Jennifer Bell, Zeena Abdulla, Alex Sirota, Andre Gaulin, Mario Bourque, Patrick Robinson, Matthew Milan, Geoff Whitlock, Patrick Dinnen, Andrew Lockhart, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Eric Squair, This Magazine (Graham F. Scott), Lucia Mancuso Mancuso, Sappho Mullins, Ryan Taylor, Meghan Warby, David Janes, Ryan Merkley, Stephen Chanasyk, Darren Chartier, Duarte Da Silva, Kurt Gooden, Rohan Jayasekera, Michael Jones]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/feed/ 3 Public Media 2.0: TVO’s The Agenda on the Road, pt.1 http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/ http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:51:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=387 Dan and I are still processing the impact and learnings of the first AgendaCamp and TVO's The Agenda on the Road, which took place in Windsor earlier this week. Overall, it was a huge success and something we're going to build upon for the next four events and shows in other communities. The best part for me was the end of day reaction of Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda and one of Canada's most respected journalistic talents. The format called for 6 simultaneous 1 hour sessions. After 50 minutes, participants were asked to wrap up their discussion and tasked to produce a 2 and a half minute video that summarized their conversation using our inexpensive Flip Video cameras. It proved to be a powerful format and we will tweak it in order to help gather even more and better video content from our amazing participants. You can check out the content on the budding AgendaCamp wiki, YouTube, Flickr and get content updates by following AgendaCamp on Twitter. We just love our participants' passion and we felt their desire to come together as a community to make the place they call home a better place. They tackled the big questions of economic renewal in the context of a rapidly declining auto industry, and they planted their seeds of their own future. The next step is to support this budding community as they continue their work together, providing them with tools to help their collaboration and ongoing conversations. I hope that we can find a way to connect this grassroots energy and enthusiasm to power and influence in a way that can meaningfully effect change, but that really depends on the community. The thing we're most interested in seeing evolve is how AgendaCamp participants and content interact with the broadcast. With five events, five shows and five different producers in five communities, we'll get to see a number of variations on this combination of bottom-up engagement, online interaction and major current affairs broadcast platform. So much fascinating stuff! We're excited for the next event in Sault Ste. Marie November 16th and 17th.]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/feed/ 0 AgendaCamp: Citizen-driven economic intelligence http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/ http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:45:20 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=339 0 billion in new money being printed by the Federal Reserve together with central banks around the world and sudden and frightening drops in global stock markets. Meanwhile, news that talks on Canada-EU economic integration are due to begin mere days after the Canadian federal election has gone largely unnoticed. It is clear that we are not living in normal times. How will this instability in the system affect citizens and businesses in the places they call home?  Even before the Wall Street meltdown, Ontario's local and regional economies were under stress and changing rapidly. The current crisis appears likely to accelerate and exacerbate these changes. It is said that all politics are local. What about economies? Dan Dunsky, Executive Producer of TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, believes that we need to think about Ontario's economies in the plural and his team has identified that major sectors of Ontario's economy correspond to our geographic landscape and its people in specific places. How do these places and people adapt to global forces that are largely outside of their control? How can we get ahead of the change curve and make our regions more resilient and adaptable to accelerating change? To tackle this critically important question about our future well-being, TVO is launching an innovative new project that brings together collaborative events and social media together with premier broadcast journalism and expert inquiry.  I am advising and supporting TVO for this project, "The Agenda with Steve Paikin: on the Road" & AgendaCamp. We're looking for participants - like you. More after the jump... Ontario's trade manufacturing economy is concentrated along the highway 401 corridor of southwestern Ontario particularly close to the US-Canada border. Ontario's natural resources sector dominates our vast northern expanse.  Eastern Ontario is home to a rich rural economy located in places with storied histories since before Confederation.  Ontario's native people made a sustainable living from the lakes and forests across Ontario long before Europeans arrived. Ontario's burgeoning knowledge-based and technology-driven economy is concentrated in places like Waterloo, Greater Toronto and Ottawa but is also popping up anyplace where talent and connectivity can find a suitable home. The Agenda is going on the road to find these economies and their people and engage them in a new conversation about their challenges and future opportunities.  The first show and event will take place in less than three weeks in Windsor (October 19th and 20th), followed by Sault Ste. Marie (November 16th and 17th). The audacious format looks like this:
  1. AgendaCamp: an all-day Sunday participatory event, similar to the Barcamp model of unconference, that takes place face-to-face and is also live-blogged, with video capture and other social media content uploaded to the web in near realtime
  2. The Agenda on the Road: a live-to-air broadcast hosted Monday evening by Steve Paikin featuring a panel of invited guests and a studio audience, where the best AgendaCamp ideas can find a larger audience
AgendaCamp is looking for:
  • local citizens and business-people
  • academic experts and bloggers
  • policy-makers and politicians
  • artists and technologists
  • bankers and social activists
- really anybody who has a stake, an opinion and a passion for the subject of the economy and it's impact on our communities and our lives.  If you are interested in participating in AgendaCamp please register your email address at http://tvo.org/agendacamp/ for more information or email me at mark@remarkk.com. Thanks to collaborators Sean Howard and Daniel Rose for being part of this project. We're enjoying working together with Steve Paikin, Mike Miner and the rest of the TVO team. My dream list of participants from across the web and blogosphere includes: Richard Florida, Anthony Williams, Naomi Klein, David Eaves, Deborah Leslie, David Wolfe, Meric Gertler, John Britton, David Crow, Jevon MacDonald, Warren Kinsella, Andrew Coyne, Kate Trgovac, Bob LeDrew, Canadian Silver Bug, James Bow, Kate McMillan (small dead animals), Uncorrected Proofs, Steve Janke (Angry in the Great White North), Zednik (A View from the Right), Graeme Steward (Nunc Scio),  More Notes from the Underground, Canada's World, Another Point of View, Dr. Dawg (Dawg's Blog). Who am I missing? You? ]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/feed/ 7 Mesh08 – Government 2.0 http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 19:52:42 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ Sean Howard, I co-presented a workshop at Mesh08, "Government 2.0: From Community Participation to Co-creation". I have uploaded the presentation at Slideshare. This workshop was built around the still in progress Metronauts case study, an innovation in participatory research and engagement for Metrolinx as it develops a Regional Transportation Plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).
We had a standing room only crowd at the end of Day 1, with many government folks in the crowd from all levels of government. The reviews were great, with several people coming up at the end to say it was the best session they'd see in the day, so I'm happy with how it went. We were caught short on time for discussion, so I hope some of the participants in the workshop find this post and leave questions here in the comments. Nice to meet you all!]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/feed/ 3 Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea: Toronto TransitCamp http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/ http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:44:23 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=542 Cross-posted from ChangeCamp.ca As one of the instigators of ChangeCamp at MaRS in Toronto on January 24th, I have spent much of the past 10 days trying to process all the content, ideas, outcomes and possibilities that it generated. It's been a little overwhelming. Clearly we tapped a rich vein of attention. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="537" caption="Wordle (Merkley, transcribed) by Suzanne Long"][/caption] So what did we do together? Let's do a quick rundown of the numbers: That's a lot of heat from our ChangeCamp fire! But how much light was there? How much change was made? What was the quality of the products of our co-creation? To my mind, the jury is still out on this question. A lot will happen not at ChangeCamp, but in the weeks and months to come because of ChangeCamp. We need to hear, share and tell those stories. We need your help:
  1. Please complete our Participant Survey
  2. Please leave your comments on this blog post. Don't be shy, don't be overly polite. We have thick skins.
  3. If you prefer to be discrete, send an email to changecamp@remarkk.com.
  4. Have more feedback? Write a post about what worked, what didn't and ideas for the future, like this, this, this, this or this.
The organizers came to this event with modest goals: to ignite and accelerate a new conversation about the shifting ideas of government and citizenship in this "age of participation", enabled by new tools and thanks to the web. Based on the buzz in online social media, traditional media and face-to-face conversations, I think we can safely say that we achieved that modest goal. For people in other cities and countries that have been inspired by the ChangeCamp idea, it is important to understand all the preparatory ground work that made ChangeCamp a success in Toronto. An event of this kind is all about having the right mix of participants. Engaging that mix from government, technology, design, social innovation and media-making was key to our success. Toronto is blessed by a dense cluster of some of the most talented designers, developers, creators and social innovators in the world. Toronto is also home to one of the most connected and innovative BarCamp and Twitter communities in the world, who have been using online tools together with face-to-face events to create change in areas of civic life outside the technology sector. We have leaders like Mark Surman of Mozilla Foundation who laid the groundwork within our City government, opening the door to open data. We had a recent "Web 2.0 Summit" event at City Hall where social media and open data in the context of government had centre stage in front of an influential audience both at the City and the Province. We have a Mayor who said:
When you open up the data, there's no limit to what people can do. It engages the imagination of citizens in building the city.
What direction does ChangeCamp go next? That's another post. We want to make sure that our emerging community has lots of opportunity to inform its future direction, to participate in it, to get involved in many new ways. We can't do it all, we can't do it alone, we can't boil the ocean, but we can start with some small steps that in the long-run can enable major change. Please read after the jump and give all the originators, organizers, contributors, sponsors and supporters some love. They deserve it. I'm sure I've missed a couple of people, so raise your hand at changecamp@remarkk.com if I missed you! ChangeCamp would not have been possible if not for the contributions of so many: Origins: Mark Surman at Mozilla Foundation, Tonya Surman at Centre for Social Innovation, Mayor David Miller and the City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit, David Crow and BarCamp Toronto, TransitCamp, OpenEverything, TVO's AgendaCamp, #HoHoTO. Organizers & Contributors: Mark Kuznicki, Daniel Rose, Meghan Warby, Lisa Torjman, Ryan Taylor, Matthew Milan, Sean Howard, Meghan Warby, Gerry Kirk, Rohan Jayasekera, David Eaves, Ryan Merkley, Darren Chartier, Suzanne Long, Will Pate, Jennifer Bell, Michael Cayley, Duarte Da Silva, Blair Francey, Martin Kuplens-Ewart, Alistair Morton, Mark McKay, Dan Hocking, Michele Perras, Heather Williams, Matt Nish-Lapidus, Justin Kozuch, Mark Bondyra, Sandy Kemsley Sponsors: SiG@MaRS, MaRS Centre, City of Toronto, Churchill Society, MASS LBP, Torch Partnership, Samara, Remarkk!, Omakase Group, Peapod Studios, Apolitic, Unspace, BFDesign Community Supporters & Donators: Sebastien Chorney, Kevin Lee, Wesley Hodgson, Aidan Nulman, Lee Dale, Peter Jones, Phil Nelson, Pamela Quiroga, Andrae Griffith, Marc-Antoine Parent, Kieran Huggins, Peter Smith, Keith Stephan-Giermek, Ellen Michelson, Miroslav Glavic, Gillian Kerr, Jennifer Bell, Zeena Abdulla, Alex Sirota, Andre Gaulin, Mario Bourque, Patrick Robinson, Matthew Milan, Geoff Whitlock, Patrick Dinnen, Andrew Lockhart, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Eric Squair, This Magazine (Graham F. Scott), Lucia Mancuso Mancuso, Sappho Mullins, Ryan Taylor, Meghan Warby, David Janes, Ryan Merkley, Stephen Chanasyk, Darren Chartier, Duarte Da Silva, Kurt Gooden, Rohan Jayasekera, Michael Jones]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/feed/ 3 Remarkk! » casestudy http://remarkk.com OPEN creative communities Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:22:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 ChangeCamp: Not your father’s public meeting http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/ http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=695 ChangeCamp Halifax was held Saturday, December 5th at the Hub and from all reports was a great success. Congratulations to Emily Richardson, the lead organizer. I gave Emily some coaching along the way and she had some great help in facilitator Sera Thompson of ALIA Institute. For more about the Halifax event and other ChangeCamps across Canada, see the ChangeCamp blog and wiki. ]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/feed/ 3 The Impact of ChangeCamp http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/ http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:44:23 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=542 Cross-posted from ChangeCamp.ca As one of the instigators of ChangeCamp at MaRS in Toronto on January 24th, I have spent much of the past 10 days trying to process all the content, ideas, outcomes and possibilities that it generated. It's been a little overwhelming. Clearly we tapped a rich vein of attention. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="537" caption="Wordle (Merkley, transcribed) by Suzanne Long"][/caption] So what did we do together? Let's do a quick rundown of the numbers: That's a lot of heat from our ChangeCamp fire! But how much light was there? How much change was made? What was the quality of the products of our co-creation? To my mind, the jury is still out on this question. A lot will happen not at ChangeCamp, but in the weeks and months to come because of ChangeCamp. We need to hear, share and tell those stories. We need your help:
  1. Please complete our Participant Survey
  2. Please leave your comments on this blog post. Don't be shy, don't be overly polite. We have thick skins.
  3. If you prefer to be discrete, send an email to changecamp@remarkk.com.
  4. Have more feedback? Write a post about what worked, what didn't and ideas for the future, like this, this, this, this or this.
The organizers came to this event with modest goals: to ignite and accelerate a new conversation about the shifting ideas of government and citizenship in this "age of participation", enabled by new tools and thanks to the web. Based on the buzz in online social media, traditional media and face-to-face conversations, I think we can safely say that we achieved that modest goal. For people in other cities and countries that have been inspired by the ChangeCamp idea, it is important to understand all the preparatory ground work that made ChangeCamp a success in Toronto. An event of this kind is all about having the right mix of participants. Engaging that mix from government, technology, design, social innovation and media-making was key to our success. Toronto is blessed by a dense cluster of some of the most talented designers, developers, creators and social innovators in the world. Toronto is also home to one of the most connected and innovative BarCamp and Twitter communities in the world, who have been using online tools together with face-to-face events to create change in areas of civic life outside the technology sector. We have leaders like Mark Surman of Mozilla Foundation who laid the groundwork within our City government, opening the door to open data. We had a recent "Web 2.0 Summit" event at City Hall where social media and open data in the context of government had centre stage in front of an influential audience both at the City and the Province. We have a Mayor who said:
When you open up the data, there's no limit to what people can do. It engages the imagination of citizens in building the city.
What direction does ChangeCamp go next? That's another post. We want to make sure that our emerging community has lots of opportunity to inform its future direction, to participate in it, to get involved in many new ways. We can't do it all, we can't do it alone, we can't boil the ocean, but we can start with some small steps that in the long-run can enable major change. Please read after the jump and give all the originators, organizers, contributors, sponsors and supporters some love. They deserve it. I'm sure I've missed a couple of people, so raise your hand at changecamp@remarkk.com if I missed you! ChangeCamp would not have been possible if not for the contributions of so many: Origins: Mark Surman at Mozilla Foundation, Tonya Surman at Centre for Social Innovation, Mayor David Miller and the City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit, David Crow and BarCamp Toronto, TransitCamp, OpenEverything, TVO's AgendaCamp, #HoHoTO. Organizers & Contributors: Mark Kuznicki, Daniel Rose, Meghan Warby, Lisa Torjman, Ryan Taylor, Matthew Milan, Sean Howard, Meghan Warby, Gerry Kirk, Rohan Jayasekera, David Eaves, Ryan Merkley, Darren Chartier, Suzanne Long, Will Pate, Jennifer Bell, Michael Cayley, Duarte Da Silva, Blair Francey, Martin Kuplens-Ewart, Alistair Morton, Mark McKay, Dan Hocking, Michele Perras, Heather Williams, Matt Nish-Lapidus, Justin Kozuch, Mark Bondyra, Sandy Kemsley Sponsors: SiG@MaRS, MaRS Centre, City of Toronto, Churchill Society, MASS LBP, Torch Partnership, Samara, Remarkk!, Omakase Group, Peapod Studios, Apolitic, Unspace, BFDesign Community Supporters & Donators: Sebastien Chorney, Kevin Lee, Wesley Hodgson, Aidan Nulman, Lee Dale, Peter Jones, Phil Nelson, Pamela Quiroga, Andrae Griffith, Marc-Antoine Parent, Kieran Huggins, Peter Smith, Keith Stephan-Giermek, Ellen Michelson, Miroslav Glavic, Gillian Kerr, Jennifer Bell, Zeena Abdulla, Alex Sirota, Andre Gaulin, Mario Bourque, Patrick Robinson, Matthew Milan, Geoff Whitlock, Patrick Dinnen, Andrew Lockhart, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Eric Squair, This Magazine (Graham F. Scott), Lucia Mancuso Mancuso, Sappho Mullins, Ryan Taylor, Meghan Warby, David Janes, Ryan Merkley, Stephen Chanasyk, Darren Chartier, Duarte Da Silva, Kurt Gooden, Rohan Jayasekera, Michael Jones]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/feed/ 3 Public Media 2.0: TVO’s The Agenda on the Road, pt.1 http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/ http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:51:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=387 Dan and I are still processing the impact and learnings of the first AgendaCamp and TVO's The Agenda on the Road, which took place in Windsor earlier this week. Overall, it was a huge success and something we're going to build upon for the next four events and shows in other communities. The best part for me was the end of day reaction of Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda and one of Canada's most respected journalistic talents. The format called for 6 simultaneous 1 hour sessions. After 50 minutes, participants were asked to wrap up their discussion and tasked to produce a 2 and a half minute video that summarized their conversation using our inexpensive Flip Video cameras. It proved to be a powerful format and we will tweak it in order to help gather even more and better video content from our amazing participants. You can check out the content on the budding AgendaCamp wiki, YouTube, Flickr and get content updates by following AgendaCamp on Twitter. We just love our participants' passion and we felt their desire to come together as a community to make the place they call home a better place. They tackled the big questions of economic renewal in the context of a rapidly declining auto industry, and they planted their seeds of their own future. The next step is to support this budding community as they continue their work together, providing them with tools to help their collaboration and ongoing conversations. I hope that we can find a way to connect this grassroots energy and enthusiasm to power and influence in a way that can meaningfully effect change, but that really depends on the community. The thing we're most interested in seeing evolve is how AgendaCamp participants and content interact with the broadcast. With five events, five shows and five different producers in five communities, we'll get to see a number of variations on this combination of bottom-up engagement, online interaction and major current affairs broadcast platform. So much fascinating stuff! We're excited for the next event in Sault Ste. Marie November 16th and 17th.]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/feed/ 0 AgendaCamp: Citizen-driven economic intelligence http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/ http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:45:20 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=339 0 billion in new money being printed by the Federal Reserve together with central banks around the world and sudden and frightening drops in global stock markets. Meanwhile, news that talks on Canada-EU economic integration are due to begin mere days after the Canadian federal election has gone largely unnoticed. It is clear that we are not living in normal times. How will this instability in the system affect citizens and businesses in the places they call home?  Even before the Wall Street meltdown, Ontario's local and regional economies were under stress and changing rapidly. The current crisis appears likely to accelerate and exacerbate these changes. It is said that all politics are local. What about economies? Dan Dunsky, Executive Producer of TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, believes that we need to think about Ontario's economies in the plural and his team has identified that major sectors of Ontario's economy correspond to our geographic landscape and its people in specific places. How do these places and people adapt to global forces that are largely outside of their control? How can we get ahead of the change curve and make our regions more resilient and adaptable to accelerating change? To tackle this critically important question about our future well-being, TVO is launching an innovative new project that brings together collaborative events and social media together with premier broadcast journalism and expert inquiry.  I am advising and supporting TVO for this project, "The Agenda with Steve Paikin: on the Road" & AgendaCamp. We're looking for participants - like you. More after the jump... Ontario's trade manufacturing economy is concentrated along the highway 401 corridor of southwestern Ontario particularly close to the US-Canada border. Ontario's natural resources sector dominates our vast northern expanse.  Eastern Ontario is home to a rich rural economy located in places with storied histories since before Confederation.  Ontario's native people made a sustainable living from the lakes and forests across Ontario long before Europeans arrived. Ontario's burgeoning knowledge-based and technology-driven economy is concentrated in places like Waterloo, Greater Toronto and Ottawa but is also popping up anyplace where talent and connectivity can find a suitable home. The Agenda is going on the road to find these economies and their people and engage them in a new conversation about their challenges and future opportunities.  The first show and event will take place in less than three weeks in Windsor (October 19th and 20th), followed by Sault Ste. Marie (November 16th and 17th). The audacious format looks like this:
  1. AgendaCamp: an all-day Sunday participatory event, similar to the Barcamp model of unconference, that takes place face-to-face and is also live-blogged, with video capture and other social media content uploaded to the web in near realtime
  2. The Agenda on the Road: a live-to-air broadcast hosted Monday evening by Steve Paikin featuring a panel of invited guests and a studio audience, where the best AgendaCamp ideas can find a larger audience
AgendaCamp is looking for:
  • local citizens and business-people
  • academic experts and bloggers
  • policy-makers and politicians
  • artists and technologists
  • bankers and social activists
- really anybody who has a stake, an opinion and a passion for the subject of the economy and it's impact on our communities and our lives.  If you are interested in participating in AgendaCamp please register your email address at http://tvo.org/agendacamp/ for more information or email me at mark@remarkk.com. Thanks to collaborators Sean Howard and Daniel Rose for being part of this project. We're enjoying working together with Steve Paikin, Mike Miner and the rest of the TVO team. My dream list of participants from across the web and blogosphere includes: Richard Florida, Anthony Williams, Naomi Klein, David Eaves, Deborah Leslie, David Wolfe, Meric Gertler, John Britton, David Crow, Jevon MacDonald, Warren Kinsella, Andrew Coyne, Kate Trgovac, Bob LeDrew, Canadian Silver Bug, James Bow, Kate McMillan (small dead animals), Uncorrected Proofs, Steve Janke (Angry in the Great White North), Zednik (A View from the Right), Graeme Steward (Nunc Scio),  More Notes from the Underground, Canada's World, Another Point of View, Dr. Dawg (Dawg's Blog). Who am I missing? You? ]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/feed/ 7 Mesh08 – Government 2.0 http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 19:52:42 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ Sean Howard, I co-presented a workshop at Mesh08, "Government 2.0: From Community Participation to Co-creation". I have uploaded the presentation at Slideshare. This workshop was built around the still in progress Metronauts case study, an innovation in participatory research and engagement for Metrolinx as it develops a Regional Transportation Plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).
We had a standing room only crowd at the end of Day 1, with many government folks in the crowd from all levels of government. The reviews were great, with several people coming up at the end to say it was the best session they'd see in the day, so I'm happy with how it went. We were caught short on time for discussion, so I hope some of the participants in the workshop find this post and leave questions here in the comments. Nice to meet you all!]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/feed/ 3 Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea: Toronto TransitCamp http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/ http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:51:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=387 Dan and I are still processing the impact and learnings of the first AgendaCamp and TVO's The Agenda on the Road, which took place in Windsor earlier this week. Overall, it was a huge success and something we're going to build upon for the next four events and shows in other communities. The best part for me was the end of day reaction of Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda and one of Canada's most respected journalistic talents. The format called for 6 simultaneous 1 hour sessions. After 50 minutes, participants were asked to wrap up their discussion and tasked to produce a 2 and a half minute video that summarized their conversation using our inexpensive Flip Video cameras. It proved to be a powerful format and we will tweak it in order to help gather even more and better video content from our amazing participants. You can check out the content on the budding AgendaCamp wiki, YouTube, Flickr and get content updates by following AgendaCamp on Twitter. We just love our participants' passion and we felt their desire to come together as a community to make the place they call home a better place. They tackled the big questions of economic renewal in the context of a rapidly declining auto industry, and they planted their seeds of their own future. The next step is to support this budding community as they continue their work together, providing them with tools to help their collaboration and ongoing conversations. I hope that we can find a way to connect this grassroots energy and enthusiasm to power and influence in a way that can meaningfully effect change, but that really depends on the community. The thing we're most interested in seeing evolve is how AgendaCamp participants and content interact with the broadcast. With five events, five shows and five different producers in five communities, we'll get to see a number of variations on this combination of bottom-up engagement, online interaction and major current affairs broadcast platform. So much fascinating stuff! We're excited for the next event in Sault Ste. Marie November 16th and 17th.]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/feed/ 0 Remarkk! » casestudy http://remarkk.com OPEN creative communities Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:22:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 ChangeCamp: Not your father’s public meeting http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/ http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=695 ChangeCamp Halifax was held Saturday, December 5th at the Hub and from all reports was a great success. Congratulations to Emily Richardson, the lead organizer. I gave Emily some coaching along the way and she had some great help in facilitator Sera Thompson of ALIA Institute. For more about the Halifax event and other ChangeCamps across Canada, see the ChangeCamp blog and wiki. ]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/feed/ 3 The Impact of ChangeCamp http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/ http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:44:23 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=542 Cross-posted from ChangeCamp.ca As one of the instigators of ChangeCamp at MaRS in Toronto on January 24th, I have spent much of the past 10 days trying to process all the content, ideas, outcomes and possibilities that it generated. It's been a little overwhelming. Clearly we tapped a rich vein of attention. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="537" caption="Wordle (Merkley, transcribed) by Suzanne Long"][/caption] So what did we do together? Let's do a quick rundown of the numbers: That's a lot of heat from our ChangeCamp fire! But how much light was there? How much change was made? What was the quality of the products of our co-creation? To my mind, the jury is still out on this question. A lot will happen not at ChangeCamp, but in the weeks and months to come because of ChangeCamp. We need to hear, share and tell those stories. We need your help:
  1. Please complete our Participant Survey
  2. Please leave your comments on this blog post. Don't be shy, don't be overly polite. We have thick skins.
  3. If you prefer to be discrete, send an email to changecamp@remarkk.com.
  4. Have more feedback? Write a post about what worked, what didn't and ideas for the future, like this, this, this, this or this.
The organizers came to this event with modest goals: to ignite and accelerate a new conversation about the shifting ideas of government and citizenship in this "age of participation", enabled by new tools and thanks to the web. Based on the buzz in online social media, traditional media and face-to-face conversations, I think we can safely say that we achieved that modest goal. For people in other cities and countries that have been inspired by the ChangeCamp idea, it is important to understand all the preparatory ground work that made ChangeCamp a success in Toronto. An event of this kind is all about having the right mix of participants. Engaging that mix from government, technology, design, social innovation and media-making was key to our success. Toronto is blessed by a dense cluster of some of the most talented designers, developers, creators and social innovators in the world. Toronto is also home to one of the most connected and innovative BarCamp and Twitter communities in the world, who have been using online tools together with face-to-face events to create change in areas of civic life outside the technology sector. We have leaders like Mark Surman of Mozilla Foundation who laid the groundwork within our City government, opening the door to open data. We had a recent "Web 2.0 Summit" event at City Hall where social media and open data in the context of government had centre stage in front of an influential audience both at the City and the Province. We have a Mayor who said:
When you open up the data, there's no limit to what people can do. It engages the imagination of citizens in building the city.
What direction does ChangeCamp go next? That's another post. We want to make sure that our emerging community has lots of opportunity to inform its future direction, to participate in it, to get involved in many new ways. We can't do it all, we can't do it alone, we can't boil the ocean, but we can start with some small steps that in the long-run can enable major change. Please read after the jump and give all the originators, organizers, contributors, sponsors and supporters some love. They deserve it. I'm sure I've missed a couple of people, so raise your hand at changecamp@remarkk.com if I missed you! ChangeCamp would not have been possible if not for the contributions of so many: Origins: Mark Surman at Mozilla Foundation, Tonya Surman at Centre for Social Innovation, Mayor David Miller and the City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit, David Crow and BarCamp Toronto, TransitCamp, OpenEverything, TVO's AgendaCamp, #HoHoTO. Organizers & Contributors: Mark Kuznicki, Daniel Rose, Meghan Warby, Lisa Torjman, Ryan Taylor, Matthew Milan, Sean Howard, Meghan Warby, Gerry Kirk, Rohan Jayasekera, David Eaves, Ryan Merkley, Darren Chartier, Suzanne Long, Will Pate, Jennifer Bell, Michael Cayley, Duarte Da Silva, Blair Francey, Martin Kuplens-Ewart, Alistair Morton, Mark McKay, Dan Hocking, Michele Perras, Heather Williams, Matt Nish-Lapidus, Justin Kozuch, Mark Bondyra, Sandy Kemsley Sponsors: SiG@MaRS, MaRS Centre, City of Toronto, Churchill Society, MASS LBP, Torch Partnership, Samara, Remarkk!, Omakase Group, Peapod Studios, Apolitic, Unspace, BFDesign Community Supporters & Donators: Sebastien Chorney, Kevin Lee, Wesley Hodgson, Aidan Nulman, Lee Dale, Peter Jones, Phil Nelson, Pamela Quiroga, Andrae Griffith, Marc-Antoine Parent, Kieran Huggins, Peter Smith, Keith Stephan-Giermek, Ellen Michelson, Miroslav Glavic, Gillian Kerr, Jennifer Bell, Zeena Abdulla, Alex Sirota, Andre Gaulin, Mario Bourque, Patrick Robinson, Matthew Milan, Geoff Whitlock, Patrick Dinnen, Andrew Lockhart, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Eric Squair, This Magazine (Graham F. Scott), Lucia Mancuso Mancuso, Sappho Mullins, Ryan Taylor, Meghan Warby, David Janes, Ryan Merkley, Stephen Chanasyk, Darren Chartier, Duarte Da Silva, Kurt Gooden, Rohan Jayasekera, Michael Jones]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/feed/ 3 Public Media 2.0: TVO’s The Agenda on the Road, pt.1 http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/ http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:51:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=387 Dan and I are still processing the impact and learnings of the first AgendaCamp and TVO's The Agenda on the Road, which took place in Windsor earlier this week. Overall, it was a huge success and something we're going to build upon for the next four events and shows in other communities. The best part for me was the end of day reaction of Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda and one of Canada's most respected journalistic talents. The format called for 6 simultaneous 1 hour sessions. After 50 minutes, participants were asked to wrap up their discussion and tasked to produce a 2 and a half minute video that summarized their conversation using our inexpensive Flip Video cameras. It proved to be a powerful format and we will tweak it in order to help gather even more and better video content from our amazing participants. You can check out the content on the budding AgendaCamp wiki, YouTube, Flickr and get content updates by following AgendaCamp on Twitter. We just love our participants' passion and we felt their desire to come together as a community to make the place they call home a better place. They tackled the big questions of economic renewal in the context of a rapidly declining auto industry, and they planted their seeds of their own future. The next step is to support this budding community as they continue their work together, providing them with tools to help their collaboration and ongoing conversations. I hope that we can find a way to connect this grassroots energy and enthusiasm to power and influence in a way that can meaningfully effect change, but that really depends on the community. The thing we're most interested in seeing evolve is how AgendaCamp participants and content interact with the broadcast. With five events, five shows and five different producers in five communities, we'll get to see a number of variations on this combination of bottom-up engagement, online interaction and major current affairs broadcast platform. So much fascinating stuff! We're excited for the next event in Sault Ste. Marie November 16th and 17th.]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/feed/ 0 AgendaCamp: Citizen-driven economic intelligence http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/ http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:45:20 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=339 0 billion in new money being printed by the Federal Reserve together with central banks around the world and sudden and frightening drops in global stock markets. Meanwhile, news that talks on Canada-EU economic integration are due to begin mere days after the Canadian federal election has gone largely unnoticed. It is clear that we are not living in normal times. How will this instability in the system affect citizens and businesses in the places they call home?  Even before the Wall Street meltdown, Ontario's local and regional economies were under stress and changing rapidly. The current crisis appears likely to accelerate and exacerbate these changes. It is said that all politics are local. What about economies? Dan Dunsky, Executive Producer of TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, believes that we need to think about Ontario's economies in the plural and his team has identified that major sectors of Ontario's economy correspond to our geographic landscape and its people in specific places. How do these places and people adapt to global forces that are largely outside of their control? How can we get ahead of the change curve and make our regions more resilient and adaptable to accelerating change? To tackle this critically important question about our future well-being, TVO is launching an innovative new project that brings together collaborative events and social media together with premier broadcast journalism and expert inquiry.  I am advising and supporting TVO for this project, "The Agenda with Steve Paikin: on the Road" & AgendaCamp. We're looking for participants - like you. More after the jump... Ontario's trade manufacturing economy is concentrated along the highway 401 corridor of southwestern Ontario particularly close to the US-Canada border. Ontario's natural resources sector dominates our vast northern expanse.  Eastern Ontario is home to a rich rural economy located in places with storied histories since before Confederation.  Ontario's native people made a sustainable living from the lakes and forests across Ontario long before Europeans arrived. Ontario's burgeoning knowledge-based and technology-driven economy is concentrated in places like Waterloo, Greater Toronto and Ottawa but is also popping up anyplace where talent and connectivity can find a suitable home. The Agenda is going on the road to find these economies and their people and engage them in a new conversation about their challenges and future opportunities.  The first show and event will take place in less than three weeks in Windsor (October 19th and 20th), followed by Sault Ste. Marie (November 16th and 17th). The audacious format looks like this:
  1. AgendaCamp: an all-day Sunday participatory event, similar to the Barcamp model of unconference, that takes place face-to-face and is also live-blogged, with video capture and other social media content uploaded to the web in near realtime
  2. The Agenda on the Road: a live-to-air broadcast hosted Monday evening by Steve Paikin featuring a panel of invited guests and a studio audience, where the best AgendaCamp ideas can find a larger audience
AgendaCamp is looking for:
  • local citizens and business-people
  • academic experts and bloggers
  • policy-makers and politicians
  • artists and technologists
  • bankers and social activists
- really anybody who has a stake, an opinion and a passion for the subject of the economy and it's impact on our communities and our lives.  If you are interested in participating in AgendaCamp please register your email address at http://tvo.org/agendacamp/ for more information or email me at mark@remarkk.com. Thanks to collaborators Sean Howard and Daniel Rose for being part of this project. We're enjoying working together with Steve Paikin, Mike Miner and the rest of the TVO team. My dream list of participants from across the web and blogosphere includes: Richard Florida, Anthony Williams, Naomi Klein, David Eaves, Deborah Leslie, David Wolfe, Meric Gertler, John Britton, David Crow, Jevon MacDonald, Warren Kinsella, Andrew Coyne, Kate Trgovac, Bob LeDrew, Canadian Silver Bug, James Bow, Kate McMillan (small dead animals), Uncorrected Proofs, Steve Janke (Angry in the Great White North), Zednik (A View from the Right), Graeme Steward (Nunc Scio),  More Notes from the Underground, Canada's World, Another Point of View, Dr. Dawg (Dawg's Blog). Who am I missing? You? ]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/feed/ 7 Mesh08 – Government 2.0 http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 19:52:42 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ Sean Howard, I co-presented a workshop at Mesh08, "Government 2.0: From Community Participation to Co-creation". I have uploaded the presentation at Slideshare. This workshop was built around the still in progress Metronauts case study, an innovation in participatory research and engagement for Metrolinx as it develops a Regional Transportation Plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).
We had a standing room only crowd at the end of Day 1, with many government folks in the crowd from all levels of government. The reviews were great, with several people coming up at the end to say it was the best session they'd see in the day, so I'm happy with how it went. We were caught short on time for discussion, so I hope some of the participants in the workshop find this post and leave questions here in the comments. Nice to meet you all!]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/feed/ 3 Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea: Toronto TransitCamp http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/ http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:45:20 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=339 $630 billion in new money being printed by the Federal Reserve together with central banks around the world and sudden and frightening drops in global stock markets. Meanwhile, news that talks on Canada-EU economic integration are due to begin mere days after the Canadian federal election has gone largely unnoticed. It is clear that we are not living in normal times. How will this instability in the system affect citizens and businesses in the places they call home?  Even before the Wall Street meltdown, Ontario's local and regional economies were under stress and changing rapidly. The current crisis appears likely to accelerate and exacerbate these changes. It is said that all politics are local. What about economies? Dan Dunsky, Executive Producer of TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, believes that we need to think about Ontario's economies in the plural and his team has identified that major sectors of Ontario's economy correspond to our geographic landscape and its people in specific places. How do these places and people adapt to global forces that are largely outside of their control? How can we get ahead of the change curve and make our regions more resilient and adaptable to accelerating change? To tackle this critically important question about our future well-being, TVO is launching an innovative new project that brings together collaborative events and social media together with premier broadcast journalism and expert inquiry.  I am advising and supporting TVO for this project, "The Agenda with Steve Paikin: on the Road" & AgendaCamp. We're looking for participants - like you. More after the jump... Ontario's trade manufacturing economy is concentrated along the highway 401 corridor of southwestern Ontario particularly close to the US-Canada border. Ontario's natural resources sector dominates our vast northern expanse.  Eastern Ontario is home to a rich rural economy located in places with storied histories since before Confederation.  Ontario's native people made a sustainable living from the lakes and forests across Ontario long before Europeans arrived. Ontario's burgeoning knowledge-based and technology-driven economy is concentrated in places like Waterloo, Greater Toronto and Ottawa but is also popping up anyplace where talent and connectivity can find a suitable home. The Agenda is going on the road to find these economies and their people and engage them in a new conversation about their challenges and future opportunities.  The first show and event will take place in less than three weeks in Windsor (October 19th and 20th), followed by Sault Ste. Marie (November 16th and 17th). The audacious format looks like this:
  1. AgendaCamp: an all-day Sunday participatory event, similar to the Barcamp model of unconference, that takes place face-to-face and is also live-blogged, with video capture and other social media content uploaded to the web in near realtime
  2. The Agenda on the Road: a live-to-air broadcast hosted Monday evening by Steve Paikin featuring a panel of invited guests and a studio audience, where the best AgendaCamp ideas can find a larger audience
AgendaCamp is looking for:
  • local citizens and business-people
  • academic experts and bloggers
  • policy-makers and politicians
  • artists and technologists
  • bankers and social activists
- really anybody who has a stake, an opinion and a passion for the subject of the economy and it's impact on our communities and our lives.  If you are interested in participating in AgendaCamp please register your email address at http://tvo.org/agendacamp/ for more information or email me at mark@remarkk.com. Thanks to collaborators Sean Howard and Daniel Rose for being part of this project. We're enjoying working together with Steve Paikin, Mike Miner and the rest of the TVO team. My dream list of participants from across the web and blogosphere includes: Richard Florida, Anthony Williams, Naomi Klein, David Eaves, Deborah Leslie, David Wolfe, Meric Gertler, John Britton, David Crow, Jevon MacDonald, Warren Kinsella, Andrew Coyne, Kate Trgovac, Bob LeDrew, Canadian Silver Bug, James Bow, Kate McMillan (small dead animals), Uncorrected Proofs, Steve Janke (Angry in the Great White North), Zednik (A View from the Right), Graeme Steward (Nunc Scio),  More Notes from the Underground, Canada's World, Another Point of View, Dr. Dawg (Dawg's Blog). Who am I missing? You? ]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/feed/ 7 Remarkk! » casestudy http://remarkk.com OPEN creative communities Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:22:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 ChangeCamp: Not your father’s public meeting http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/ http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=695 ChangeCamp Halifax was held Saturday, December 5th at the Hub and from all reports was a great success. Congratulations to Emily Richardson, the lead organizer. I gave Emily some coaching along the way and she had some great help in facilitator Sera Thompson of ALIA Institute. For more about the Halifax event and other ChangeCamps across Canada, see the ChangeCamp blog and wiki. ]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/feed/ 3 The Impact of ChangeCamp http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/ http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:44:23 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=542 Cross-posted from ChangeCamp.ca As one of the instigators of ChangeCamp at MaRS in Toronto on January 24th, I have spent much of the past 10 days trying to process all the content, ideas, outcomes and possibilities that it generated. It's been a little overwhelming. Clearly we tapped a rich vein of attention. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="537" caption="Wordle (Merkley, transcribed) by Suzanne Long"][/caption] So what did we do together? Let's do a quick rundown of the numbers: That's a lot of heat from our ChangeCamp fire! But how much light was there? How much change was made? What was the quality of the products of our co-creation? To my mind, the jury is still out on this question. A lot will happen not at ChangeCamp, but in the weeks and months to come because of ChangeCamp. We need to hear, share and tell those stories. We need your help:
  1. Please complete our Participant Survey
  2. Please leave your comments on this blog post. Don't be shy, don't be overly polite. We have thick skins.
  3. If you prefer to be discrete, send an email to changecamp@remarkk.com.
  4. Have more feedback? Write a post about what worked, what didn't and ideas for the future, like this, this, this, this or this.
The organizers came to this event with modest goals: to ignite and accelerate a new conversation about the shifting ideas of government and citizenship in this "age of participation", enabled by new tools and thanks to the web. Based on the buzz in online social media, traditional media and face-to-face conversations, I think we can safely say that we achieved that modest goal. For people in other cities and countries that have been inspired by the ChangeCamp idea, it is important to understand all the preparatory ground work that made ChangeCamp a success in Toronto. An event of this kind is all about having the right mix of participants. Engaging that mix from government, technology, design, social innovation and media-making was key to our success. Toronto is blessed by a dense cluster of some of the most talented designers, developers, creators and social innovators in the world. Toronto is also home to one of the most connected and innovative BarCamp and Twitter communities in the world, who have been using online tools together with face-to-face events to create change in areas of civic life outside the technology sector. We have leaders like Mark Surman of Mozilla Foundation who laid the groundwork within our City government, opening the door to open data. We had a recent "Web 2.0 Summit" event at City Hall where social media and open data in the context of government had centre stage in front of an influential audience both at the City and the Province. We have a Mayor who said:
When you open up the data, there's no limit to what people can do. It engages the imagination of citizens in building the city.
What direction does ChangeCamp go next? That's another post. We want to make sure that our emerging community has lots of opportunity to inform its future direction, to participate in it, to get involved in many new ways. We can't do it all, we can't do it alone, we can't boil the ocean, but we can start with some small steps that in the long-run can enable major change. Please read after the jump and give all the originators, organizers, contributors, sponsors and supporters some love. They deserve it. I'm sure I've missed a couple of people, so raise your hand at changecamp@remarkk.com if I missed you! ChangeCamp would not have been possible if not for the contributions of so many: Origins: Mark Surman at Mozilla Foundation, Tonya Surman at Centre for Social Innovation, Mayor David Miller and the City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit, David Crow and BarCamp Toronto, TransitCamp, OpenEverything, TVO's AgendaCamp, #HoHoTO. Organizers & Contributors: Mark Kuznicki, Daniel Rose, Meghan Warby, Lisa Torjman, Ryan Taylor, Matthew Milan, Sean Howard, Meghan Warby, Gerry Kirk, Rohan Jayasekera, David Eaves, Ryan Merkley, Darren Chartier, Suzanne Long, Will Pate, Jennifer Bell, Michael Cayley, Duarte Da Silva, Blair Francey, Martin Kuplens-Ewart, Alistair Morton, Mark McKay, Dan Hocking, Michele Perras, Heather Williams, Matt Nish-Lapidus, Justin Kozuch, Mark Bondyra, Sandy Kemsley Sponsors: SiG@MaRS, MaRS Centre, City of Toronto, Churchill Society, MASS LBP, Torch Partnership, Samara, Remarkk!, Omakase Group, Peapod Studios, Apolitic, Unspace, BFDesign Community Supporters & Donators: Sebastien Chorney, Kevin Lee, Wesley Hodgson, Aidan Nulman, Lee Dale, Peter Jones, Phil Nelson, Pamela Quiroga, Andrae Griffith, Marc-Antoine Parent, Kieran Huggins, Peter Smith, Keith Stephan-Giermek, Ellen Michelson, Miroslav Glavic, Gillian Kerr, Jennifer Bell, Zeena Abdulla, Alex Sirota, Andre Gaulin, Mario Bourque, Patrick Robinson, Matthew Milan, Geoff Whitlock, Patrick Dinnen, Andrew Lockhart, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Eric Squair, This Magazine (Graham F. Scott), Lucia Mancuso Mancuso, Sappho Mullins, Ryan Taylor, Meghan Warby, David Janes, Ryan Merkley, Stephen Chanasyk, Darren Chartier, Duarte Da Silva, Kurt Gooden, Rohan Jayasekera, Michael Jones]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/feed/ 3 Public Media 2.0: TVO’s The Agenda on the Road, pt.1 http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/ http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:51:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=387 Dan and I are still processing the impact and learnings of the first AgendaCamp and TVO's The Agenda on the Road, which took place in Windsor earlier this week. Overall, it was a huge success and something we're going to build upon for the next four events and shows in other communities. The best part for me was the end of day reaction of Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda and one of Canada's most respected journalistic talents. The format called for 6 simultaneous 1 hour sessions. After 50 minutes, participants were asked to wrap up their discussion and tasked to produce a 2 and a half minute video that summarized their conversation using our inexpensive Flip Video cameras. It proved to be a powerful format and we will tweak it in order to help gather even more and better video content from our amazing participants. You can check out the content on the budding AgendaCamp wiki, YouTube, Flickr and get content updates by following AgendaCamp on Twitter. We just love our participants' passion and we felt their desire to come together as a community to make the place they call home a better place. They tackled the big questions of economic renewal in the context of a rapidly declining auto industry, and they planted their seeds of their own future. The next step is to support this budding community as they continue their work together, providing them with tools to help their collaboration and ongoing conversations. I hope that we can find a way to connect this grassroots energy and enthusiasm to power and influence in a way that can meaningfully effect change, but that really depends on the community. The thing we're most interested in seeing evolve is how AgendaCamp participants and content interact with the broadcast. With five events, five shows and five different producers in five communities, we'll get to see a number of variations on this combination of bottom-up engagement, online interaction and major current affairs broadcast platform. So much fascinating stuff! We're excited for the next event in Sault Ste. Marie November 16th and 17th.]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/feed/ 0 AgendaCamp: Citizen-driven economic intelligence http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/ http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:45:20 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=339 0 billion in new money being printed by the Federal Reserve together with central banks around the world and sudden and frightening drops in global stock markets. Meanwhile, news that talks on Canada-EU economic integration are due to begin mere days after the Canadian federal election has gone largely unnoticed. It is clear that we are not living in normal times. How will this instability in the system affect citizens and businesses in the places they call home?  Even before the Wall Street meltdown, Ontario's local and regional economies were under stress and changing rapidly. The current crisis appears likely to accelerate and exacerbate these changes. It is said that all politics are local. What about economies? Dan Dunsky, Executive Producer of TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, believes that we need to think about Ontario's economies in the plural and his team has identified that major sectors of Ontario's economy correspond to our geographic landscape and its people in specific places. How do these places and people adapt to global forces that are largely outside of their control? How can we get ahead of the change curve and make our regions more resilient and adaptable to accelerating change? To tackle this critically important question about our future well-being, TVO is launching an innovative new project that brings together collaborative events and social media together with premier broadcast journalism and expert inquiry.  I am advising and supporting TVO for this project, "The Agenda with Steve Paikin: on the Road" & AgendaCamp. We're looking for participants - like you. More after the jump... Ontario's trade manufacturing economy is concentrated along the highway 401 corridor of southwestern Ontario particularly close to the US-Canada border. Ontario's natural resources sector dominates our vast northern expanse.  Eastern Ontario is home to a rich rural economy located in places with storied histories since before Confederation.  Ontario's native people made a sustainable living from the lakes and forests across Ontario long before Europeans arrived. Ontario's burgeoning knowledge-based and technology-driven economy is concentrated in places like Waterloo, Greater Toronto and Ottawa but is also popping up anyplace where talent and connectivity can find a suitable home. The Agenda is going on the road to find these economies and their people and engage them in a new conversation about their challenges and future opportunities.  The first show and event will take place in less than three weeks in Windsor (October 19th and 20th), followed by Sault Ste. Marie (November 16th and 17th). The audacious format looks like this:
  1. AgendaCamp: an all-day Sunday participatory event, similar to the Barcamp model of unconference, that takes place face-to-face and is also live-blogged, with video capture and other social media content uploaded to the web in near realtime
  2. The Agenda on the Road: a live-to-air broadcast hosted Monday evening by Steve Paikin featuring a panel of invited guests and a studio audience, where the best AgendaCamp ideas can find a larger audience
AgendaCamp is looking for:
  • local citizens and business-people
  • academic experts and bloggers
  • policy-makers and politicians
  • artists and technologists
  • bankers and social activists
- really anybody who has a stake, an opinion and a passion for the subject of the economy and it's impact on our communities and our lives.  If you are interested in participating in AgendaCamp please register your email address at http://tvo.org/agendacamp/ for more information or email me at mark@remarkk.com. Thanks to collaborators Sean Howard and Daniel Rose for being part of this project. We're enjoying working together with Steve Paikin, Mike Miner and the rest of the TVO team. My dream list of participants from across the web and blogosphere includes: Richard Florida, Anthony Williams, Naomi Klein, David Eaves, Deborah Leslie, David Wolfe, Meric Gertler, John Britton, David Crow, Jevon MacDonald, Warren Kinsella, Andrew Coyne, Kate Trgovac, Bob LeDrew, Canadian Silver Bug, James Bow, Kate McMillan (small dead animals), Uncorrected Proofs, Steve Janke (Angry in the Great White North), Zednik (A View from the Right), Graeme Steward (Nunc Scio),  More Notes from the Underground, Canada's World, Another Point of View, Dr. Dawg (Dawg's Blog). Who am I missing? You? ]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/feed/ 7 Mesh08 – Government 2.0 http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 19:52:42 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ Sean Howard, I co-presented a workshop at Mesh08, "Government 2.0: From Community Participation to Co-creation". I have uploaded the presentation at Slideshare. This workshop was built around the still in progress Metronauts case study, an innovation in participatory research and engagement for Metrolinx as it develops a Regional Transportation Plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).
We had a standing room only crowd at the end of Day 1, with many government folks in the crowd from all levels of government. The reviews were great, with several people coming up at the end to say it was the best session they'd see in the day, so I'm happy with how it went. We were caught short on time for discussion, so I hope some of the participants in the workshop find this post and leave questions here in the comments. Nice to meet you all!]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/feed/ 3 Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea: Toronto TransitCamp http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 19:52:42 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ Sean Howard, I co-presented a workshop at Mesh08, "Government 2.0: From Community Participation to Co-creation". I have uploaded the presentation at Slideshare. This workshop was built around the still in progress Metronauts case study, an innovation in participatory research and engagement for Metrolinx as it develops a Regional Transportation Plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).
We had a standing room only crowd at the end of Day 1, with many government folks in the crowd from all levels of government. The reviews were great, with several people coming up at the end to say it was the best session they'd see in the day, so I'm happy with how it went. We were caught short on time for discussion, so I hope some of the participants in the workshop find this post and leave questions here in the comments. Nice to meet you all!]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/feed/ 3 Remarkk! » casestudy http://remarkk.com OPEN creative communities Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:22:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 ChangeCamp: Not your father’s public meeting http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/ http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=695 ChangeCamp Halifax was held Saturday, December 5th at the Hub and from all reports was a great success. Congratulations to Emily Richardson, the lead organizer. I gave Emily some coaching along the way and she had some great help in facilitator Sera Thompson of ALIA Institute. For more about the Halifax event and other ChangeCamps across Canada, see the ChangeCamp blog and wiki. ]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/12/06/changecamp-not-your-fathers-public-meeting/feed/ 3 The Impact of ChangeCamp http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/ http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:44:23 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=542 Cross-posted from ChangeCamp.ca As one of the instigators of ChangeCamp at MaRS in Toronto on January 24th, I have spent much of the past 10 days trying to process all the content, ideas, outcomes and possibilities that it generated. It's been a little overwhelming. Clearly we tapped a rich vein of attention. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="537" caption="Wordle (Merkley, transcribed) by Suzanne Long"][/caption] So what did we do together? Let's do a quick rundown of the numbers: That's a lot of heat from our ChangeCamp fire! But how much light was there? How much change was made? What was the quality of the products of our co-creation? To my mind, the jury is still out on this question. A lot will happen not at ChangeCamp, but in the weeks and months to come because of ChangeCamp. We need to hear, share and tell those stories. We need your help:
  1. Please complete our Participant Survey
  2. Please leave your comments on this blog post. Don't be shy, don't be overly polite. We have thick skins.
  3. If you prefer to be discrete, send an email to changecamp@remarkk.com.
  4. Have more feedback? Write a post about what worked, what didn't and ideas for the future, like this, this, this, this or this.
The organizers came to this event with modest goals: to ignite and accelerate a new conversation about the shifting ideas of government and citizenship in this "age of participation", enabled by new tools and thanks to the web. Based on the buzz in online social media, traditional media and face-to-face conversations, I think we can safely say that we achieved that modest goal. For people in other cities and countries that have been inspired by the ChangeCamp idea, it is important to understand all the preparatory ground work that made ChangeCamp a success in Toronto. An event of this kind is all about having the right mix of participants. Engaging that mix from government, technology, design, social innovation and media-making was key to our success. Toronto is blessed by a dense cluster of some of the most talented designers, developers, creators and social innovators in the world. Toronto is also home to one of the most connected and innovative BarCamp and Twitter communities in the world, who have been using online tools together with face-to-face events to create change in areas of civic life outside the technology sector. We have leaders like Mark Surman of Mozilla Foundation who laid the groundwork within our City government, opening the door to open data. We had a recent "Web 2.0 Summit" event at City Hall where social media and open data in the context of government had centre stage in front of an influential audience both at the City and the Province. We have a Mayor who said:
When you open up the data, there's no limit to what people can do. It engages the imagination of citizens in building the city.
What direction does ChangeCamp go next? That's another post. We want to make sure that our emerging community has lots of opportunity to inform its future direction, to participate in it, to get involved in many new ways. We can't do it all, we can't do it alone, we can't boil the ocean, but we can start with some small steps that in the long-run can enable major change. Please read after the jump and give all the originators, organizers, contributors, sponsors and supporters some love. They deserve it. I'm sure I've missed a couple of people, so raise your hand at changecamp@remarkk.com if I missed you! ChangeCamp would not have been possible if not for the contributions of so many: Origins: Mark Surman at Mozilla Foundation, Tonya Surman at Centre for Social Innovation, Mayor David Miller and the City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit, David Crow and BarCamp Toronto, TransitCamp, OpenEverything, TVO's AgendaCamp, #HoHoTO. Organizers & Contributors: Mark Kuznicki, Daniel Rose, Meghan Warby, Lisa Torjman, Ryan Taylor, Matthew Milan, Sean Howard, Meghan Warby, Gerry Kirk, Rohan Jayasekera, David Eaves, Ryan Merkley, Darren Chartier, Suzanne Long, Will Pate, Jennifer Bell, Michael Cayley, Duarte Da Silva, Blair Francey, Martin Kuplens-Ewart, Alistair Morton, Mark McKay, Dan Hocking, Michele Perras, Heather Williams, Matt Nish-Lapidus, Justin Kozuch, Mark Bondyra, Sandy Kemsley Sponsors: SiG@MaRS, MaRS Centre, City of Toronto, Churchill Society, MASS LBP, Torch Partnership, Samara, Remarkk!, Omakase Group, Peapod Studios, Apolitic, Unspace, BFDesign Community Supporters & Donators: Sebastien Chorney, Kevin Lee, Wesley Hodgson, Aidan Nulman, Lee Dale, Peter Jones, Phil Nelson, Pamela Quiroga, Andrae Griffith, Marc-Antoine Parent, Kieran Huggins, Peter Smith, Keith Stephan-Giermek, Ellen Michelson, Miroslav Glavic, Gillian Kerr, Jennifer Bell, Zeena Abdulla, Alex Sirota, Andre Gaulin, Mario Bourque, Patrick Robinson, Matthew Milan, Geoff Whitlock, Patrick Dinnen, Andrew Lockhart, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Eric Squair, This Magazine (Graham F. Scott), Lucia Mancuso Mancuso, Sappho Mullins, Ryan Taylor, Meghan Warby, David Janes, Ryan Merkley, Stephen Chanasyk, Darren Chartier, Duarte Da Silva, Kurt Gooden, Rohan Jayasekera, Michael Jones]]> http://remarkk.com/2009/02/05/the-impact-of-changecamp/feed/ 3 Public Media 2.0: TVO’s The Agenda on the Road, pt.1 http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/ http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:51:50 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=387 Dan and I are still processing the impact and learnings of the first AgendaCamp and TVO's The Agenda on the Road, which took place in Windsor earlier this week. Overall, it was a huge success and something we're going to build upon for the next four events and shows in other communities. The best part for me was the end of day reaction of Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda and one of Canada's most respected journalistic talents. The format called for 6 simultaneous 1 hour sessions. After 50 minutes, participants were asked to wrap up their discussion and tasked to produce a 2 and a half minute video that summarized their conversation using our inexpensive Flip Video cameras. It proved to be a powerful format and we will tweak it in order to help gather even more and better video content from our amazing participants. You can check out the content on the budding AgendaCamp wiki, YouTube, Flickr and get content updates by following AgendaCamp on Twitter. We just love our participants' passion and we felt their desire to come together as a community to make the place they call home a better place. They tackled the big questions of economic renewal in the context of a rapidly declining auto industry, and they planted their seeds of their own future. The next step is to support this budding community as they continue their work together, providing them with tools to help their collaboration and ongoing conversations. I hope that we can find a way to connect this grassroots energy and enthusiasm to power and influence in a way that can meaningfully effect change, but that really depends on the community. The thing we're most interested in seeing evolve is how AgendaCamp participants and content interact with the broadcast. With five events, five shows and five different producers in five communities, we'll get to see a number of variations on this combination of bottom-up engagement, online interaction and major current affairs broadcast platform. So much fascinating stuff! We're excited for the next event in Sault Ste. Marie November 16th and 17th.]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/10/23/public-media-20-tvos-the-agenda-on-the-road-pt1/feed/ 0 AgendaCamp: Citizen-driven economic intelligence http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/ http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:45:20 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/?p=339 0 billion in new money being printed by the Federal Reserve together with central banks around the world and sudden and frightening drops in global stock markets. Meanwhile, news that talks on Canada-EU economic integration are due to begin mere days after the Canadian federal election has gone largely unnoticed. It is clear that we are not living in normal times. How will this instability in the system affect citizens and businesses in the places they call home?  Even before the Wall Street meltdown, Ontario's local and regional economies were under stress and changing rapidly. The current crisis appears likely to accelerate and exacerbate these changes. It is said that all politics are local. What about economies? Dan Dunsky, Executive Producer of TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, believes that we need to think about Ontario's economies in the plural and his team has identified that major sectors of Ontario's economy correspond to our geographic landscape and its people in specific places. How do these places and people adapt to global forces that are largely outside of their control? How can we get ahead of the change curve and make our regions more resilient and adaptable to accelerating change? To tackle this critically important question about our future well-being, TVO is launching an innovative new project that brings together collaborative events and social media together with premier broadcast journalism and expert inquiry.  I am advising and supporting TVO for this project, "The Agenda with Steve Paikin: on the Road" & AgendaCamp. We're looking for participants - like you. More after the jump... Ontario's trade manufacturing economy is concentrated along the highway 401 corridor of southwestern Ontario particularly close to the US-Canada border. Ontario's natural resources sector dominates our vast northern expanse.  Eastern Ontario is home to a rich rural economy located in places with storied histories since before Confederation.  Ontario's native people made a sustainable living from the lakes and forests across Ontario long before Europeans arrived. Ontario's burgeoning knowledge-based and technology-driven economy is concentrated in places like Waterloo, Greater Toronto and Ottawa but is also popping up anyplace where talent and connectivity can find a suitable home. The Agenda is going on the road to find these economies and their people and engage them in a new conversation about their challenges and future opportunities.  The first show and event will take place in less than three weeks in Windsor (October 19th and 20th), followed by Sault Ste. Marie (November 16th and 17th). The audacious format looks like this:
  1. AgendaCamp: an all-day Sunday participatory event, similar to the Barcamp model of unconference, that takes place face-to-face and is also live-blogged, with video capture and other social media content uploaded to the web in near realtime
  2. The Agenda on the Road: a live-to-air broadcast hosted Monday evening by Steve Paikin featuring a panel of invited guests and a studio audience, where the best AgendaCamp ideas can find a larger audience
AgendaCamp is looking for:
  • local citizens and business-people
  • academic experts and bloggers
  • policy-makers and politicians
  • artists and technologists
  • bankers and social activists
- really anybody who has a stake, an opinion and a passion for the subject of the economy and it's impact on our communities and our lives.  If you are interested in participating in AgendaCamp please register your email address at http://tvo.org/agendacamp/ for more information or email me at mark@remarkk.com. Thanks to collaborators Sean Howard and Daniel Rose for being part of this project. We're enjoying working together with Steve Paikin, Mike Miner and the rest of the TVO team. My dream list of participants from across the web and blogosphere includes: Richard Florida, Anthony Williams, Naomi Klein, David Eaves, Deborah Leslie, David Wolfe, Meric Gertler, John Britton, David Crow, Jevon MacDonald, Warren Kinsella, Andrew Coyne, Kate Trgovac, Bob LeDrew, Canadian Silver Bug, James Bow, Kate McMillan (small dead animals), Uncorrected Proofs, Steve Janke (Angry in the Great White North), Zednik (A View from the Right), Graeme Steward (Nunc Scio),  More Notes from the Underground, Canada's World, Another Point of View, Dr. Dawg (Dawg's Blog). Who am I missing? You? ]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/09/30/agendacamp-citizen-driven-economic-intelligence/feed/ 7 Mesh08 – Government 2.0 http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 19:52:42 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/ Sean Howard, I co-presented a workshop at Mesh08, "Government 2.0: From Community Participation to Co-creation". I have uploaded the presentation at Slideshare. This workshop was built around the still in progress Metronauts case study, an innovation in participatory research and engagement for Metrolinx as it develops a Regional Transportation Plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).
We had a standing room only crowd at the end of Day 1, with many government folks in the crowd from all levels of government. The reviews were great, with several people coming up at the end to say it was the best session they'd see in the day, so I'm happy with how it went. We were caught short on time for discussion, so I hope some of the participants in the workshop find this post and leave questions here in the comments. Nice to meet you all!]]> http://remarkk.com/2008/05/22/mesh08-government-20/feed/ 3 Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea: Toronto TransitCamp http://remarkk.com/2008/01/28/harvard-business-review-breakthrough-idea-toronto-transitcamp/ http://remarkk.com/2008/01/28/harvard-business-review-breakthrough-idea-toronto-transitcamp/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:00:20 +0000 Mark Kuznicki http://remarkk.com/2008/01/28/harvard-business-review-breakthrough-idea-toronto-transitcamp/ Feb08_Cover

Along with my co-authors Jay Goldman and Eli Singer, I am proud to announce the publication of our article titled Sick Transit Gloria in the February issue of Harvard Business Review. The article shares the story of Toronto TransitCamp with a general business audience and is included in the 2008 edition of HBR's annual The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas section. There are many great ideas in there, so do yourself a favour and pick up a copy. (TransitCamp is also nominated by BlogTO in the Best of Independent Toronto Survey. Vote here!) This short piece tells the tale of a community and a public agency coming together to solve problems in an innovative new way, using social web technology, social media and design methods together with the Barcamp unconference framework. The approach helped to shift the relationship between the organization and its customers and community stakeholders. That organization was the Toronto Transit Commission and the event and the open creative community that emerged from it was called Toronto TransitCamp. You can read the article in Harvard Business Review, or visit this wiki page for links that provide a comprehensive overview of the background, the design, the experience, the media coverage, the conceptual foundations and the influence of TransitCamp. The authors want to make clear that while our names may appear in the byline of the article, the ideas and the event itself come from a community of participants and peers. We were also inspired by many talented global thought leaders. We would like to acknowledge these 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, New Paradigm; Elspeth Roundtree; Eric Goldman, Napoleon's Gambit; Ev Williams, Evhead; Greg Wilson, The Third Bit; Guy Kawasaki, How to Change the World; Howard 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; 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; Rochelle Latinsky; 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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