About
Engaging Local Resilience ~ Welcome to Local Formation, an interactive web platform that unleashes the collective wisdom embedded in our own Kootenay communities. This website establishes a venue for dialogue, inspiring and supporting connections between local individuals, experts and non-profit organizations.
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This website was created in the summer of 2009 by a group of professionals interested in promoting online communication in the Kootenay region. If you are interested in contributing your own thoughts or ideas on this project please contact us. |
Keeping Redundancy in Check
A big part of our mantra with Local Formation is to support and enhance NOT recreate. This website is meant to act as a dialogue tool to support the marketing and visibility of NGO opinion. It is not our intention to replace existing websites and web content in any way. |
Communication Concepts
Most of us have experience using emerging web technologies such as facebook, hotmail, and google. This website aims to harness some of these new communication concepts as they apply to community planning and discussion.
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#1 by Ryan on August 25th, 2009
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Seems like great concept
#2 by Simon de la Salle on July 9th, 2009
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We are talking on the phone Tara…. here’s some notes…
how will we choose authors, how will transition towns choose an author? how to qualify authors?
Initial groups to register for first round of controlled testing with authors.
Drawing people out of the organizations they belong too, and engaging as a indvidual / person / human being.
must integrate transition town “domains” into discussion groups.
#3 by Simon de la Salle on July 9th, 2009
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you do have a way with words my friend.
nice little intro text to the about! thanks for your thoughts.
Regarding the naming, after numerous discussion following ours it has become more and more apparent that this identity needs to be unassociated from any single NOP group. (my 2 cents). I have spoke with numerous people that we would want to have in the this dialogue that have been turned off by this sort of representation. The concept itself of a neutral venue for dialogue free of preconceived philosophy is key in establishing the tone of “humble listener.” Only with this mandate can we encourage dialogue from all channels, not just those that are “in-tune.”
Totally open to changing the branding and naming, and all the work that implies, however if we can, I believe it is important to stay neutral.
Thoughts?
#4 by Tara Williams on July 9th, 2009
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So here is what I am thinking about the overall name: maybe it is better to have the name somewhat different from the Transition Nelson name, that way it can always live, regardless of any success/disappointments of the TN organization. Also, Transition Nelson seems to exclude input from anyone outside of Nelson and we want everyone in our vicinity to come to the table. AND… it would be great to be really connected to that name/movement as well – so what do you think about:
“Local Transition” as the name? The .com is available on Go Daddy as of today.
Here is my first draft recommendation for the ABOUT text:
Engaging Local Resilience
Welcome to Local Transition, an interactive web platform that unleashes the collective wisdom embedded in our own Kootenay communities. This website establishes a venue for dialogue, inspiring and supporting connections between local individuals, experts and non-profit organizations.