Philomena Krosmico started with a simple question: "How have you made a difference this week, big or small?" In this story, she describes how she adapted the Interactivity Foundation’s “Path...

These monthly, online community gatherings will create a space for members to connect with others in the Collaborative Discussion Community. They will include time for member updates, as well as...

These monthly, online community gatherings will create a space for members to connect with others in the Collaborative Discussion Community. They will include time for member updates, as well as...

Once you have a basic understanding of the policy possibility---what it says and what it doesn’t---the next step is to understand why someone might actually propose it. In order to...

Election time is probably the time when people hear and talk about policy the most. So you may feel that you have already heard way too much about policy debates...

When Robert Frost was asked ‘What is poetry?’ he replied ‘Poetry is the kind of thing that poets write’. A natural response to such a definition might be a knowing...

Colleague Jeff Prudhomme and I spent this last weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Central States Communication Association Conference at the invitation of 2009 Summer Institute participant Professor Laura Black....

Difference is a fundamental fact of human life. There is similarity too. But difference is the reason why we need to have discussions about public policy. It is also the...

During the last few weeks of my IF course, I have been struggling to understand just how well students are developing discussion and facilitation skills. Even though students have...