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		<title>Get With the Times, Retail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am completely drawn to Swipe bookstore on Richmond Street in Toronto. They sell books on design, architecture, marketing and other creative disciplines. It has a magnetic hold over me, yet the magnet seems to not disable my credit card for some reason.
I was there yesterday with Tom Crawford. He has a device called an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity: &#8220;Not Required&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to a large Canadian company about their possible need for facilitation consulting services. The person I was talking to is in HR and has &#8220;collaboration&#8221; in her portfolio. She suggested that her company would most likely not be in need of my services because the corporate frame of mind was one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Novatel MiFi: Cool Device for Remote Events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bell Canada is about to launch the Novatel MiFi 2372, a combination device that includes high speed wireless broadband on the HSPA network plus a wifi router plus an SD slot. For people who work collaborative events or conferences this is quite the all-in-wonder package. Internet service at conference centres can be really expensive or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Messina and Open Web Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Centre for Social Innovation and Torch Partnership brought Chris Messina to Toronto for a 1 day workshop from which I learned quite a bit. Chris is a heavyweight, having co-founded BarCamp, developed the Flock browser and is now on the board of the OpenID Foundation. It was nice to have access to his brain for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uffe Elbaek and the Project Paradox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 15th I had the pleasure of attending the latest Design with Dialogue session, hosted by Peter Jones of ReDesign Research and Greg Judelman of Bruce Mau Design. The special guest of the night was Uffe Elbaek, founder of KaosPilots and the CEO of the World Out Games in Copenhagen which took place this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designing with Grade School Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday I was fortunate to be invited by Mike Doell of Ross+Doell Design to kick off a design project that he has been running at his kids&#8217; school for the past few years. Each year Mike guides a class through the design process to eventually create models and prototypes of all kinds of new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physical Space: The Forgotten Factor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I happened to stumble upon some notes that I had in an old notebook  about a project that I had some involvement with while working at Bell Canada. It was about the development of Bell&#8217;s &#8220;campus&#8221; that was being built in the suburbs of Toronto. The idea was to collapse all of the smaller offices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Not Fight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new coffee shop, called The Common, opened up in my neighbourhood recently. It&#8217;s a very small place with just a few tables so they set up some chairs on the sidewalk. Those fill up pretty quickly so there is nowhere to sit in their shop. This happened to me the other day but I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Published in MPI One+</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently interviewed for and quoted in the Meeting Planning International&#8217;s One+ Magazine for the July/August issue. It was interesting to talk about process facilitation and collaborative event design from an &#8220;event industry&#8221; perspective. It&#8217;s great to see some exposure on the idea that a typical meeting or event doesn&#8217;t have to have such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Want From ChangeCamp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past eight months a movement called ChangeCamp has emerged. On December 31, 2008 a bunch of people motivated by the election of Obama and the proroguing of the Canadian Parliament started to plan an &#8220;unconference&#8221; that posed the question, &#8220;How Do We Re-Imagine Government and Citizenship in the Age of Participation?&#8221; By posing [...]]]></description>
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