I’m going to leave you with a touchy but interesting issue, an artificial intelligence version of an iconic piece of music. So iconic, in fact, that although the original is six and a half decades old, it was the Number One hit in the country again just a year ago! ...
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Urban cores are changing. When people started evacuating offices in favor of working in the hinterlands and exurbs, downtowns changed overnight. Although employers are trying to entice some people back into offices, nobody believes that urban cores will ever be quite what they were pre-pandemic. But what these buildings, spaces ...
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Involving the public is a lot of trouble, but often not nearly as much trouble as not involving them. The way this particular issue was handled might have been a simple oversight; it might just have been an overzealous administrator just trying to get the job done. But the perception ...
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Misinformation, which is generally defined as information that’s just wrong, and disinformation, which is information that’s deliberately false – an intentional lie designed to make you believe propaganda – are two of toughest challenges that we face. It’s a serious problem regardless of the situation, but it becomes deadly when ...
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Cookies have sometimes been the bane of my professional life. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of warm, chewy, nutty, chocolate chip, oatmeal cookies, and I love almost all Christmas cookies. There are emergency Girl Scout Thin Mint sleeves and Tagalongs in my freezer, and I sometimes have ...
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We live in unsettled times. More bluntly, people are more consistently pi$$ed off than they used to be. We’re polarized; a third of us are suddenly vindicated and complacent, another third are apoplectic about the state of the republic, and who the hell knows about the other third – the ...
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The most useful tool to ever come out of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) was actually “gifted” to the organization, and us, by the three people who created it. Two of our longtime friends and colleagues, Dr. Marty Rozelle and Lewis Michaelson, and TPC partner, Doug Sarno – ...
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People who have been wronged or mistreated need to hear an acknowledgement of that injury before they will ever likely be willing to move on to bigger or other conversations. A century and a half after the fact, one enormous wrong began being righted on a warm, wind-swept desert day ...
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Making America Communicate Again (MACA) isn’t going to be easy. We’re different; we have distinct priorities, experiences and we’re talking among six generations – Silents, Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z and the Polars. Consider Generation Z, now entering the workforce and getting lots of attention these days.
Explaining how ...
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PublicInput is a software company that recently released the results of their survey on current trends in public involvement. Keep in mind that this is from a for-profit business, but you might find some of the reported trends interesting, particularly numbers four and five....
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