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Ever since I’ve returned from the WorldBlu forum in Washington, DC I’ve wanted to do some updates in this site. However keeping two blogs alive is not that easy and today I would like to share some ideas around this project with you.

As written in my other blog David Weinberger gave the opening presentation of the WorldBlu forum. His ideas and stage performance have been far too interesting for simply listening 50% while spending the other 50% on live blogging (Therefore I rather wait for the WorldBlu online documentation to be released (hopefully) soon ;-). In any case one of the key points he’s addressed has been the democratic power of blogs as a means of transparent and self-regulatory freedom of expression.

As I’ve expressed in my initial postings I see this current development phase as the stage of collecting the diverse definitions and ideas about ‘Design Thinking’. Being inspired by the term ‘Organizational Democracy’ I’ve decided that for the phase of “Collecting Ideas and Viewpoints” I will open the blog to the public. Even though I see this step as highly experimental I think it’s worth a try and I haven’t seen this in the blogoshpere so far.

Getting access to the blog interface which enables you to publish postings is very easy:

• Go to the lower right hand side of the blog. The section is called ‘META’ and click on ‘Register’
• Provide a ‘Username’ and a valid Email address
• A password with be email to this account and from now on you have access to the blogging back-end of the institute which enables you to write and publish your own ideas on ‘Design Thinking’ on this blog

So far all contributions to the concept or approach or meta-concept ‘Design Thinking’ are welcome. Theses can be your own ideas as well as references to other sites which publish information about ‘Design Thinking’.

One of the rewards for you personally will be that you will be listed with your name and website on the blog and hopefully gain (even ;-) more recognition and credibility in the blogoshpere. You might also get inspired and motivated to start your own blog and I’ll be happy to support with my advice on such a project.

So please spread the news and provide feedback to blog@designthinkinginstitute.com if you have any suggestions on this project!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 15th, 2005 at 22:05 pm by Ralf Beuker and is filed under Announcement. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.