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CitizenSpeak

Sometimes a systems perspective can get you in trouble. I know it has with me sometimes, as I have found myself struggling to identify the borders of a project. I increasingly admire those projects that do one thing and do it well. That seems to be the case with CitizenSpeak, a free email advocacy service modeled on MoveOn. If you like that model, this is definitely worth a close look. David Geilhufe pointed out to me that, if you're hosting a Drupal systems, email advocacy features of Citizenspeak are a module that you could install. Posted: 6/19/06; 2:43:12 PM #

Looking for Ideas in All the Wrong Places

Subtitled "An Argument for Staying in the Box", Ishmael and Callahan's paper on Looking for Ideas in All the Wrong Places (8 page PDF) is a argument for the role that constraints play in fostering creativity. I remember the experience of a writing workshop I once took, where the exercises had extraordinary, almost impossible constraints. The creativity this promoted was remarkable. I would like to explore this much further in a capacity building context. Posted: 6/19/06; 2:36:45 PM #