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New Facts
Joe Keohane writes in the Boston Globe about “How Facts Backfire”, looking at a fascinating study that sheds light on how we learn and absorb new information. Or not… Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In … Continue reading
Conversations that matter…make us feel better?
In a guest post “Conversations that matter…make us feel better?” (4/28/10) for the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation blog, www.thataway.org, I wrote about news of a study of college students suggesting that people who have deeper conversations more often are happier … Continue reading
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New Dialogue Toolkits?
We haven’t heard of this much in our dialogue and facilitation travels, but it appears the use of aroma therapy could play a useful role in creating successful dialogue processes! The Boston Globe writes here. A team of researchers found … Continue reading
How Not to Facilitate Health Care Dialogues
From the The Wall Street Journal, an interactive about the recent healthcare summit. Hat tip to Tim Bonnemann at Intellitics.
Different Faiths, One Friendship
As Laurie Goodstein writes in the New York Times: It sounds like the start of a joke: a rabbi, a minister and a Muslim sheik walk into a restaurant. But what follows is an enlightening article about the power of … Continue reading
Transpartisanship
Another recent Utne Reader article caught our eye at Idealogue, Inc.: In “America’s Transpartisan Future: Daring to accept our differences” (Utne Reader, September-October 2009) David Schimke interviews Michael Ostrolenk, a licensed psychotherapist and “center-right” conservative, and the cofounder and national director of the … Continue reading
Liberals vs. Conservatives
The Utne Reader in “Liberals Aren’t Un-American. Conservatives Aren’t Ignorant” discusses the work of Jonathan Haidt who proposes a new approach to understanding conflict between liberals and conservatives. At the core of the divide are several fundamental differences on 5 … Continue reading
Democracy on the Web
Anand Giridharadas of the The New York Times writes in “Athens on the Net” about the optimism and challenges of bringing the practice of democracy to the web. A nice summary of complex dynamics of civic participation in this relatively … Continue reading
More on Anonymity…
In an earlier post (“Let Us Now Praise Pseudonymity and Anonymity”, June 11, 2009), we pointed to an article about the controversy surrounding the “outing” of a blogger who used a synonym to write about legal issues. The issue of … Continue reading
Sharing Space
In an age when we read so much about conflict, we were inspired to read this article about Jews and Muslims practicing their faiths together under the same roof: “People look to the Jewish-Muslim relationship as conflict,” said All Dulles … Continue reading
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Intentions
Over the course of developing a website to encourage dialogue between people with different points of view, we’ve received comments along the lines that cross-ideology dialogue will be difficult and people pointing to the status quo or bringing up, for … Continue reading
The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System
In The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System (O’Reilly Radar, 6/15/09), John Geraci suggests that What we really want (or what I really want anyway) is not simply government transparency, but an open civic system – a civic system … Continue reading
Reminders of the Power of Dialogue
Mary Jacksteit from Public Conversations Project is published in The Huffington Post with a great piece on the power of dialogue in the history of the abortion debate: The Buffalo Case: Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Can Work Together I share these … Continue reading
Organizational Change is Coming Soon
“[B]ig shifts in how we will organize and think about work” are imminent, contends Marina Gorbis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Future, writing in Roll Call: “We almost cannot conceive of a world without hierarchical organizational charts, mission statements, … Continue reading
Civility Comes to the Net
This Boston Globe article, “Civility Comes to the Net – Control p’s + q’s: Sometimes it seems as though nastiness dominates the Internet. But there are signs that the Web is growing up.”, explores the evolution of self-policing norms of … Continue reading
The Art of a Lively Conversation
In “The Art of a Lively Conversation” (March-April 2009 Utne Reader), Alain de Botton suggests that being able to engage in good conversation is not a natural ability we all have, but rather a skill that can and must be … Continue reading
The Internet: Foe of Democracy?
This brief piece in Harvard Magazine, “The Internet: Foe of Democracy?”, was interesting and highlights the need for improved means of creating knowledge encounters online. Cass Sunstein, by the way, is slated to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Sunstein … Continue reading
The Daily Me
New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof reviews a number of studies and recent publications related to consumption of news, opinion, and information, in his recent op-ed column (“The Daily Me,” The New York Times, March 18, 2009), and summarizes that … Continue reading
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Thanks for the Add. Now Help Me with My Homework
This article from Ed., the Harvard University Graduate School of Education alumni magazine, shows an increasing attention to social networking tools in an educational context, while making it clear that there is much room to grow in that area. From the article: “…the biggest … Continue reading
Comment Culture
Virginia Heffernan writes a great piece Comment is King in the New York Times Magazine about the culture of online commenting. Wildly popular but not always that useful, commenting is for better or worse a common form of online interaction … Continue reading →