Wed., Oct. 6: 10:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Thurs., Oct. 7: 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Fri., Oct. 8: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Get your hands dirty playing with a variety of high- and low-tech tools for engagement, planning, communications, storytelling, and visualization. See how CommunityViz® helps to visualize, analyze and communicate the future of your town. Use Second Life to explore the built environment and create design alternatives. Start a story map for your community or get an assessment how ready you are to implement an online engagement project. Experiment with online maps, touch tables, social networking applications and more.
Build your community sand castle with these tools:
- CommunityViz - Placeways
- AnyWare Planning - PlaceMatters
- Open Neighborhood - Tufts University
- Twitter/Facebook - Goto2040
- Issues Forums - eDemocracy.org
- Sketchup - Winston Associates
- Chip Game - Foresee Consulting
- Heart and Soul Community Mapping - Holli Andrews
- Google Maps Mashups - GIS Decision Support Resources
- CommunityAlmanac - Orton Family Foundation
- Meeting in a Box - City of Austin
- BYO Red Guide - BYO Consulting
- Planning Tools Exchange - Orton Family Foundation
- EngagingPlans - Urban Interactive Studios
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Thanks
Melissa and Robert, thanks for your suggestions! Unfortunately at this point we have filled all slots for this year's conference, which we will post here in the next couple of days. I looked at your references and really like your work. We'll make sure to keep you in the loop for future events like this.
Thanks, Chris
Sandbox addition
I'd like to see Yellowwood's work on evaluating community resilience added! Thx.
Thanks for the Suggestions!
Hi Melissa,
Thanks so much for the suggestions for the Sandbox - we've followed Yellowwood's work for a long time and really like the tools and processes you mentioned. We'll be working on adding tools throughout the summer and will definitely keep these in mind. Please let us know of any other good tools you hear about!
Community Sandbox
I have a couple of ideas for this sandbox. One is our You Get What You Measure process which I proposed for one of the tool sessions. Also, we have a Green Community Technologies process that we use to help communities think about their municipal infrastructure and ways of using green alternative technologies to repair and replace infrastructure. You can visit "www.greencommunitytechnologies.com" to learn more. Finally, we have been working with the Ford Foundation on their Wealth Creation in Rural Communities initiative, through which we have developed a community wealth matrix, considering rural economic development through the lens of seven forms of community wealth (Social capital, intellectual capital, individual capital, natural capital, built capital, financial capital and political capital). You can learn more about this at "www.yellowwood.org/wealthcreation.aspx".
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