I’m continuing my experiment as a community content provider on Amex’s Open Forum on behalf of @Inhabitat (tres different from being on the community management side). Following the good commerce beat with these recent posts:
Seeking a new org structure that moves beyond .com or .org: For Profit, For Good
My first and last 5 tips post [...]
“If we want to impact these ecosystems on a large scale we must increasingly design for social systems, not individual needs.” - Robert Fabricant has been thinking about how the User Centered Design practice evolves out of the user needs trap and moves on to thinking about groups, communities, and neighborhoods. The New Practice of [...]
Design for Behavior Change:
In prep for a panel talk at SXSW on Designing for Irrational Behavior organized by Robert Fabricant, these are emerging examples from design, tech, engagement marketing, not-for-profit, academia, social networking… telling the story of how people who design things are creating participatory platforms that lead to more conscious consumption and use of things.
Backstories: Where [...]
While it was hard to be a control freak “not_organizing” an “un_conference,” I still had fun at the Designers Accord’s first Town Hall.
The Problem of Proprietary
One of the big issues raised in a number of talks was how to get over the problem of proprietary. How do we work collaboratively in a field filled [...]
The students in my class at NYU have been wondering what green means to people these days after so much hype and overexposure on the issue. Continuum published the results of Colorblind, their large scale green consumer study, combining ethnographic and online community research - I wrote up a post over at Core77.
Following on the success of Town Hall meetings conducted last year on the west coast, the Designers Accord will host its first New York City-based meeting on March 5th, 2009. Smart Design will host in their their spacious conference room in the Starret-Leigh building. Here’s the pitch:
Members of the Designers Accord meet locally to discuss [...]
Do we need a green wiki? Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia’s founder, seems to think so, with his announcement of Wikia Green.
Check out the difference in these entries:
Greenhouse Gas on Wikipedia
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint on Green Wikia
Wales’ intention is to create a proactive wiki where the contributors are focused on what we should do about climate change, [...]
I want to give products a voice. When I look at a pencil, a mop, or a smart phone, I most likely don’t know where in the world these objects came from, what they are made out of, who created them, nor do I know who or what was affected in the making of these [...]
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