Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
June 22, 2013
June 7, 2013
April 10, 2012
"I am here tonight to support the recommendation of your staff... I will not repeat any of the points they have made."
My testimony at last night's meeting of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Planning Board is available.
March 22, 2012
October 11, 2011
"Here's what we've done to help."
"...understanding the availability of the site is key to avoiding wasting time, resources, and scarce tax dollars pursuing an option that may not exist."
"Doing so would be consistent with the due diligence that is required in any site selection, and in this case, it could help avoid enforcement actions or threats to future funding."
August 23, 2011
Save the Trees of Rock Creek Hills Park!
Have you seen the two new videos from SaveRockCreekHillsPark.org?
• Trees.
• "... not going to be any trees left."
August 1, 2011
"res ipsa loquitur"
NeuroCooking friends who have been following our community's efforts to save Rock Creek Hills Park may be interested in this: A one-minute YouTube video, comprising two half-minute clips, has been posted to www.SaveRockCreekHillsPark.org on its own – that is, with no accompanying text (other than a title: "MCPS 'Feasibility Study' Process Lacks Integrity").
June 28, 2011
Save Rock Creek Hills Park!
What I said to the Board last night: "... don't build a costly and deficient school on this little park."
June 16, 2011
Request for advice.
My wife has a first name that is not very common. So, she grew up having to spell it for people, and, in the late twentieth century, I was able to gift her with an eponymous top level domain. (Something like "susan.net" or "sally.org", only with her distinctive first name.)
Yesterday, we received an unsolicited offer of a significant amount of money for the domain.
So, what should we do? Should we say forget about it – it's not for sale! –, or should we make a counter-offer?
And, the question arises, who is the would-be buyer? If it's just another person with my wife's name, that's one thing. But what if it's an organization whose acronym happens to spell her name? In that case, wouldn't we have a moral obligation to find out who they are and what they do? Perhaps, if they're a good cause, we'd donate the domain to them at no charge; but if they're evil, then, the domain would not be for sale to them at any price...
We would value your advice on this, dear NeuroCooking friends.
June 5, 2011
May 26, 2011
May 25, 2011
Save Rock Creek Hills Park!
What Paul Beck told the Board Monday night: "I invite you to reflect for a moment on our sense of betrayal."
May 24, 2011
May 15, 2011
May 8, 2011
Save Rock Creek Hills Park!
We have been writing here less often, NeuroCooking friends, because another topic has been occupying us lately, a great deal really, since the night of April 28th, when, out of the blue, something shocking and terrible happened.
In fact, ...
* * * * *
On second thought, we would prefer not to go into the matter here. However, we would like to take the opportunity to direct your attention to it.
And so, please, might we direct your attention to:
Thank you for your understanding, and your interest.
April 25, 2011
The Ethics of Working with Story
When working with story and building a narrative organization, it is imperative that one maintain high ethical standards. I recently explored the ethical use of story in a lecture delivered at Kent State University’s Graduate Program in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management. You can watch the full 16-minute lecture here, and you can read written excerpts at PhilanTopic.
My colleague and mentor Cynthia Kurtz responded to my essays with smart and practical advice on her blog.
February 6, 2011
December 7, 2010
On photographic verisimilitude (or, how to shoot a goat in the mountains).
To take excellent landscape photographs, you should use a big piece of slow film, small aperture, & long exposure; but to take good photos of active animals, you can't leave the shutter open for long.
So, can these competing requirements be reconciled, to take sharp photographs of live animals set in a rich detailed landscape?
November 13, 2010
Our first Bad Example Award!
September 20, 2010
Ethical Storysharing
Story is not a commodity, to be taken from someone and given to someone else. Often, I help people find and share their stories, so that they can better share their stories or the story of their organization. I call this “listening in the service of telling” – as opposed to listening to better understand and craft solutions to organizational problems, for example. This kind of listening presents unique ethical challenges. I’m hoping to explore these challenges in greater depth at an upcoming panel, Ethical Storysharing for Social Change, at the South By Southwest conference. In preparation, I’ve been thinking about the following:
- Sometimes, the opportunity that you, as the story facilitator, are presenting to the storysharer may be his or her only chance to be heard.
- You are the sharer’s microphone.
- You may have more knowledge of the possible repercussions of a story being shared than the sharer does. You have an ethical obligation to protect the sharer.
- You must be clear as to whether there are any differences between your goals and the goals of the storysharer.
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