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Tag Archives: dialogue
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
Bridging Babel
The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University recently published a report on social media and interfaith dialogue. Idealogue, Inc. participated in the study, and you can view and download “Bridging Babel: New Social Media and Interreligious and … Continue reading
Storytelling and Online Dialogue
We are excited to be contributing as guest bloggers to the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) Blog. Here is our first post that discusses our experience with storytelling on BeyondTolerance.org, an interfaith and cultural conflict dialogue site utilizing … Continue reading
Dialogue as Action
I just returned from Nigeria where I had the privilege of accompanying Professor Darren Kew from the UMass Boston Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution and Dave Joseph from Public Conversations Project, helping to research online dialogue and other technology-based learning opportunities as … Continue reading
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
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
Words and Dialogue
A couple weeks ago I was able to attend The Democracy Imperative conference at the University of New Hampshire, an exciting weekend of discussion and learning on how to strengthen participatory democracy and citizen engagement in governance from local issues … 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
Monty Python Takes on Dialogue
Monty Python takes on dialogue, with a strong emphasis on positional statements, and a little argument theory thrown in….
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
Dialogue resources compiled by Clark U. program
Clark University’s Difficult Dialogues program, “aimed at creating a climate for dialogue on campus,” has compiled an annotated list of resources related to dialogue. Sections include “The Dialogue Process,” “Dialogue and Democracy,” “Dialogue and Pedagogy,” “Dialogue in the Arts,” and “Dialogue … 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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Let Us Now Praise Pseudonymity and Anonymity
This blog entry from The New York Times summarizes and excerpts various responses to the “outing” of a blogger, John Blevins, who blogged using the pseudonym Publius. It is a very (in my opinion) on-point discussion of the issue of … Continue reading
Powerful Conversations in Business
In this blog post, “Leading Powerful Conversations”, Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson, Inc., a Christian publishing company, identifies leading powerful conversations as “a new way of leading.” He shares his experience fostering meaningful conversations among employees, and touts the … Continue reading
Facebook Users Go to War over Gaza
In “Facebook Users Go to War over Gaza” (Deena Guzder, Time, January 13, 2009), Rita King, cited as someone who studies online communities as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, actually suggests that some … Continue reading
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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 →