IAP2/NCDD Northern California joint meetup November 11, 2009

Joint Northern California chapter meeting of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) and the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD).

Learn more:
IAP2 -- http://www.iap2.org
NCDD -- http://www.thataway.org

There's significant overlap in interests, tools, and experiences, and we want to broaden our local network of local facilitation, public participation, and dialogue & deliberation professionals.

Agenda

Here are a few (likely) items from the "news and updates" category.
These will be short (we're still finalizing the main content):

* Report from IAP2 2009 Annual Conference in San Diego
* Upcoming IAP2 member engagement project
* ParticipateDB (a collaborative catalogue for online tools for participation)
* Ideas for a 2010 conference in the Bay Area on public participation
* Brainstorm additional IAP2 chapter activities (e.g. monthly webinars)

Venue

One of San Francisco's premier co-working spaces:

Citizen Space
http://citizenspace.us/location/