From becca at ilsr.org Fri Jan 5 14:34:11 2007 From: becca at ilsr.org (Becca Vargo Daggett) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 14:34:11 -0600 Subject: [tcwug-list] Community Discussion of Municipal Wireless Message-ID: Please join Concordia's College of Business and Organizational Leadership for a community discussion of municipal wireless. This event will use futurist Joel Barker's tool for understanding change. The "Implications Wheel" draws upon group wisdom to quickly and effectively uncover the short and long term implications of any change. Topic: Should Wi-Fi in Saint Paul be publicly or privately owned? When: 3:30-6 p.m., Jan. 17, 2007 Where: Library & Technology Center, Concordia University Hosted by: Concordia University College of Business and Organizational Leadership Participants will uncover second- and third-order implications of citywide wireless projects. Saint Paul is the example, but residents and decision makers in all metro cities can learn from the exercise. The event is free, but you must register online at: http://www.csp.edu/CBOL/strategicdiscovery/ Send questions to: strategicdiscovery at csp.edu Joel Barker - "We did a wheel for NASA on a project they had been considering for a year. In three hours, our team had identified a dozen implications as important as any their experts had uncovered. The director had to start over in his assessment of the project." Read a Pioneer Press article about Joel Barker and the Implications Wheel: http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/special_packages/ biz_home/15924801.htm Register online at: http://www.csp.edu/CBOL/strategicdiscovery/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.tcwug.org/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20070105/1cb61e1d/attachment.htm From becca at ilsr.org Fri Jan 12 14:03:11 2007 From: becca at ilsr.org (Becca Vargo Daggett) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:03:11 -0600 Subject: [tcwug-list] Reminder: Jan. 17 Community Wireless Discussion Message-ID: Please join Concordia's College of Business and Organizational Leadership for a community discussion of municipal wireless. This event will use futurist Joel Barker's tool for understanding change. The "Implications Wheel" draws upon group wisdom to quickly and effectively uncover the short and long term implications of any change. Topic: Should Wi-Fi in Saint Paul be publicly or privately owned? When: 3:30-6 p.m., Jan. 17, 2007 Where: Library & Technology Center, Concordia University Hosted by: Concordia University College of Business and Organizational Leadership Participants will uncover second- and thir-order implications of citywide wireless projects. Saint Paul is the example, but residents and decision makers in all metro cities can learn from the exercise. The event is free, but you must register online at: http://www.csp.edu/CBOL/strategicdiscovery/ Send questions to: strategicdiscovery at csp.edu Joel Barker - "We did a wheel for NASA on a project they had been considering for a year. In three hours, our team had identified a dozen implications as important as any their experts had uncovered. The director had to start over in his assessment of the project." Read a Pioneer Press article about Joel Barker and the Implications Wheel: http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/special_packages/ biz_home/15924801.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.tcwug.org/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20070112/b2111919/attachment.htm