Community Corner

Occassionally I teach at Ryerson. In one of the courses, Information Architecture, we discuss language and audience within information spaces. I use the online Rap Dictionary, a wiki based compendium of hip-hop slang as a discussion reference. It is an example of the role of language enriching group communications and also creating exclusivity ...

Everyone moving around more often. Looking to make a connection. Check the web; text; start a conversation in the checkout. Go to any organized meeting and almost certainly you'll leave with a name badge. Maybe a business card or two. The process is the same. Get into a space where others with shared interests. For many of us the social space ...

During the past two years, while our daughter's been working in Boston, we've enjoyed several visits to her neighbourhood, Jamaica Plain. JP is diverse, filled with interesting small businesses and friendly. Walking around I'd notice announcements for a range of social, sport, educational and political activities. Recently, I came across ...

Ten years ago had the pleasure of returning to my hometown, Montreal, at the internaltional meeting of the Internet Society. Andrew Clement and I presented a paper, Sharing Integrated Computer Communications Among Non-Profit Organizations: The Case of Ontario's Social Development Network. The effort was an explicit attempt at combining ...

Added a new category. Organizer's Notebook is about community work experiences. After each project I organize and file papers, clippings, calendars and notes. When I first came to Toronto, many people in Regent Park thought the real purpose for my community work was either political ambition or to ...

Friday, February 11, 2005 By NATALIA MUÑOZnmunoz@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - Barbara Rivera, daughter of a politically prominent Irish-American family who became a powerful advocate for poor Latinos, died yesterday at 69 after a short illness. Born Barbara Coakley in Chicopee, Rivera began a lifetime of activism after she herself was forced ...

Gubrium, Jaber F. (1991). Recognizing and analyzing local cultures (pp. 131-141). In W.B. Shaffir & R.A. Stebbins (Eds.), Experiencing fieldwork : An inside view of qualitative research. London: Sage. Draws on his fieldwork with Alzheimer's support groups and nursing homes to show the variety of local atmosphere, leadership, problem framing. ...

From: Sean Purdy Sent: February 27, 2002 4:41 PM To: simon@web.net Subject: By the people, For the people Article Hi Simon. How are you? Attached is a first draft of my thesis chapter on the RPCIA. There's some jargon and it's very long but I would appreciate any comments you may have, in particular on evaluating the reasons for success ...

From: Sean Purdy Sent: January 16, 2002 5:30 AM To: simon@web.net Subject: RE: Regent Park Simon: This is more or less what happened as far as I know, but I haven't talked to the actual players so there could be some more information. This will written up more clearly in the thesis. Two OHC staffers sympathetic to tenant organizing, Brenda ...

The question that bothered me for the longest time about the tenant management initiative in Regent Park was the obvious lack of support and suspicion that the Ontario Housing Corporation was actively seeking to kill the program. Why sign an agreement then do everything possible to block implementation? At first, my own suspicion was that we might ...