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Planning + Civic Tech Happy Hour in Chicago, 4/15
Join us 4/15 at 6:30 in Chicago during APA for a Planning + Civic Tech Happy Hour.  Hope to see you there! #plantech Monk’s Pub: 205 W Lake Street (Wells and Lake) 6:30p on 4/15/13

PlaceMatters

Wanting to engage online? Put people first.
I had an interesting chat last week with someone from a fairly large NGO who wanted to start using online tools to engage people with their work. As usual, there were no easy answers. However, there...

DavePress

Lloyd Davis: 5 Open Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Great video of a talk from Lloyd:

DavePress

Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Blocks, barriers and doorstops! Innovation in the NHS ✚ Review: Writing Kit for iPad POINT BREAK: 16 points of the cluetrain manifesto comms...

DavePress

Zilino Road Show Continues: Chicago and D.C.
Upate 04/26: We’ve added a stop in Columbus, OH. As we continue our Zilino Road Show, here are a few more dates to check out: April 25, 2013: Zilino Road Show Berkeley, CA April 30, 2013:...

Intellitics Blog

Civic Data Challenge 2013
The Civic Data Challenge 2013, set to launch at 2pm Pacific Time today, is a contest presented by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. From...

Intellitics Blog

Bitcoin explained
Useful video.

DavePress

The brute force of money
David Weinberger on the purchase of Mendeley by Elsevier: I seriously have no interest in judging the Mendeley folks. I still like them, and who am I to judge? If someone offered me $45M (the minimum...

DavePress

Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: On IBM, OpenStack and Chef: an interview Intelligent Impact: Evaluating an open data capacity building with voluntary sector organisations WordPress.tv...

DavePress

Outliners are cool!
Do you use an outliner? Have you even heard of them? An outline is a load of text, organised into a hierarchy. It looks like a bulleted list, with content at various levels, but proper ones do a bit...

DavePress