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CSIDC

DC examples of using creative spaces

examples of using creative spaces in various places

CSITO (Our current primary model)

Toronto's Centre for Social innovation's Business Model: http://socialinnovation.ca/about/business-model 

Toronto's CSI is releasing the 2.0 version of our Guide to Shared Spaces for Social Innovation. All should sign up to get the emails http://socialinnovation.ca/openspaces 

Collab ideas:

Getting together in person  

Brainstorming on the wiki

Brainstorming real-time on wordpress 

So, I was thinking we should probably find a decent collaboration-focused communications tool. This is the sort of thing gWave is made for, I guess, but I'm not a huge fan of Wave. Besides that, with Buzz out now, Google will probably shut down wave in a year or two. So, I vote for something else. 

Just set up and tested a P2-wordpress.com site. Perfect for having Twitter style conversations, but with better comment tracking and no character limit. It will save the conversation better than Twitter too, which has been having issues lately. Here is the link - http://csidc.wordpress.com/ - anyone with a Wordpress.com account (they're free) can contribute to the site, make posts and comments. 

-----------What do you think of using the above site as a brainstorming and communications tool?

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