The Tao of WAO

Today we talk to Julie Keane and Mark Otter from Participate.com – a platform and service designed to support and operationalize Communities of Practice. https://www.participate.com/ Books (check out our new Book Club: https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book ) Anne Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Underworld by Don DeLillo Power Broker by Robert A. Caro The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Links Keep Badg...

Today we're talking with Anne Hilliger, a collaborator studying media education and the lead author of We Are Open Co-op's new course on Feminist Pedagogy. Anne's favourite books: Invisible Women Margaret Atwood - Oryx & Crake Feminism Is For Everybody, Especially Educators! https://learnwith.weareopen.coop/courses/fife/ Links https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/swedish-government-scraps...

Laura and Doug have a chat with Pedram Parasmand, a workshop designer, leadership coach, team builder and consultant. https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedramparasmand/ https://theskillslab.com Ped's favourite books: - Fiction: '1984' by George Orwell - Non-fiction: 'The Art of Possibility' by Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander

Today we're talking to Aaron Hirtenstein, an organisational development advisor, collaborator, and cooperative badass. https://twitter.com/shepherdstone21 https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-hirtenstein-5862032a/ Aaron's books: 'The Count of Monte Cristo' by Alexandre Dumas 'A Suitable Boy' by Vikram Seth, An Equal Music Collins guide to Mushrooms Links Building OUT: https://outlandish.com/building-...

Welcome to Season 5! The season kicks off with guest Elizabeth Godwin, the Global Lead, Digital Learning and Architecture at Greenpeace International https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-musar-godwin/ Books - Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) - Fire Island (Hulu) - new adaptation Notes Honey & Mumford - https://www.eln.co.uk/blog/honey-and-mumford-learning-styles

Our introduction to Season 5 of the Tao of WAO!

Both seasoned speakers and facilitators, Laura & Doug chat about reentering in real life events. Get tips on preparing and running sessions, participating in them, networking and even event recovery in this episode. Links Support this podcast and other We Are Open projects and products at https://opencollective.com/weareopen Badge Summit: https://www.thebadgesummit.com/ https://blog.weareopen.coop...

Today's guest is futurist, author and educator Bryan Alexander. Bryan is currently thinking loads about the intersection of education, technology and climate – so regular listeners will know why we're so excited to have him on. Bryan Alexander's sites: https://twitter.com/BryanAlexander/ http://futureofeducation.us/ https://bryanalexander.org/ https://ftte.us/ His books: Academia Next https://www....

Support our podcast! https://opencollective.com/weareopen Our guest Heather Leson is open advocate and the Digital Innovation Lead at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherleson/ https://twitter.com/HeatherLeson/ Heather's favourite book(s) Global Soul -https://bookshop.org/books/the-global-soul-jet-lag-shopping-malls-and-the...

Support us! opencollective.com/weareopen In this episode Laura and Doug start chatting about Self Hosting IT and end up talking politics, perspectives, behaviour and more. - dougbelshaw.com/blog/2022/05/23/jitsi-sociocracy/ - wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Fifty_Shades_of_Open - learnwith.weareopen.coop/courses/open-course/ - raw.githubusercontent.com/open-organiz…izations.pdf - app.optery.com/login

We talk about identity, civic society and how Twitter isn't a public square. Support our podcast! https://opencollective.com/weareopen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall - https://clalliance.org/blog/curate-or-be-curated-why-our-information-environment-is-crucial-to-a-flourishing-democracy-civil-society/ - https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/04/25/highlights-from-the-internet-is-not-wha...

(Content warning) In this episode we speak with Kayleigh Walsh, an Outlandish colleague, about restorative justice, trust and more. This podcast season is currently unfunded. You can support this podcast and other We Are Open projects and products at https://opencollective.com/weareopen. Kayleigh's favourite book(s) - Richard Powers the overstory - House of Spirits Isabella Allende Restorative Jus...

WAO stuff Learn with WAO launch https://blog.weareopen.coop/learn-with-we-are-open-co-op-8a4dd9f31874 Audience Ikigai https://blog.weareopen.coop/audience-ikigai-be0cebe4cea How to set Open Standards: https://blog.weareopen.coop/howto-set-open-standards-for-your-project-3e4aa1f57e1b Architectures of Participation https://weareopen.coop/aop Emergent Community building https://blog.weareopen.coop/em...

Today we talk to our guest, Adam Procter, Interim Head of the new Department Art & Media Technology at University of Southampton about social impact games, game design and more. Support the Tao of WAO: https://opencollective.com/weareopen/ Adam Procter: https://discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/procter/ https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/feb/21/spawn-of-wordle-five-of-t...

This episode we chat about misinformation and disinformation. We explore some useful frameworks about information and critical thinking too. Support us! https://opencollective.com/weareopen Fake news. It’s complicated. > https://firstdraftnews.org/articles/fake-news-complicated/ MisInfoCon > https://misinfocon.com/ The archive shows the most popular posts: https://misinfocon.com/archive Countering...

This episode explores verifiable credentials, blockchain identity management, the current badges landscape and some badges history too as we talk to our guest Kerri Lemoie, the Director, Digital Credentials Research & Innovation at Badgr. We LOVED recording this episode, so tell us if you liked listening to it! Support us! https://opencollective.com/weareopen Kerri Lemoie: https://kayaelle.medium....

This episode explores the difference between groups and networks as we talk to our guest Alex Worrad Andrews from another cooperative in the CoTech network, Common Knowledge. This description makes no sense? Well, listen to the episode! Support us! opencollective.com/weareopen Alex Worrad Andrews https://alexworradandrews.com/ Common Knowledge: https://commonknowledge.coop/ What is Alex's favourit...

Our first episode in Season 3 features the members (and our intern!) of We Are Open talking about their predictions for 2022 and our cooperative policy of "dormancy". What's the difference between a sabbatical and dormancy? Listen to find out! Support us! opencollective.com/weareopen The book we mention at the end: https://www.idler.co.uk/product/how-to-be-idle-paperback-signed-edition/ Missing so...

Here it is, the Tao of WAO Season 3 Trailer! Doug threatens to quit the podcast unless Laura answers enough questions correctly. Ok, let's settle this! https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this/

Part two of our remote work episodefocused more on the day to day tools and processes that we use to work remotely. Support us! opencollective.com/weareopen How we work - some nerding out? https://usesthis.com/interviews/clay.shirky/ https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/ https://joplinapp.org/ https://medium.com/@LauraHilliger/tabby-mctabface-3bff8661ef70 https://ifttt.com Our gear for the pod...

Today we're talking about remote versus in person working and the tools, practices and processes that have helped us become pros at not going to the office. Support us! opencollective.com/weareopen Positive Feedback in Remote work > https://buffer.com/resources/building-deliberate-praise-remote-culture-6-methods-use-buffer Survey: Remote Workers Are More Disengaged and More Likely to Quit > https:...

We talk to Kudzayi Ngwerume about her experience building movements and connecting people through creativity and passion. Support us! https://opencollective.com/weareopen Kudzayi Ngwerume on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kudzayi Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kudzayingwerume/ James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669846/giovannis-room-by-james-baldwin/# C...

In this episode, Laura and Doug talk about recognising learning and pro-social behaviours with badges. They also chat about the Participate project they're collaborating on, Keep Badges Weird. https://thebadgesummit.com Why do we need to keep badges weird? Participate KBW - https://app.participate.com/communities/keep-badges-weird/62003f3f-a7ba-4f6a-990a-64d6f893016d Project board: https://trello....

Today we're talking to Jess Klein, a principal designer at Wikimedia and a colleague and friend for...well, listen to find out how long we've had the pleasure of working with Jess! This podcast season is currently unfunded. You can support this podcast and other We Are Open projects and products at http://opencollective.com/weareopen See our website: weareopen.coop Links and mentions: Technically...

Doug and Laura get into the weeds talking about various frameworks and un-frameworks. They also talk about uncamping, whatever that means. This podcast season is currently unfunded. You can support this podcast and other We Are Open projects and products at https://opencollective.com/weareopen See our website: https://weareopen.coop Our work in Frameworks: - Architecture of Participation: https://...