Tips and Tricks

Project Management and the Art of Herding Cats

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up." Oliver Wendell Holmes My experience of working with globally distributed, multistakeholder, volunteer communities as something of a project manager has taught me a few things. Project Management: tl;dr The short, short version: Time zones suck. There's no way around… Continue reading Project Management and the Art of Herding Cats

Deep Thoughts

Tweet Jamming: The Fun Inherent in Asynchronicity

On May 9, 2019, I participated in my first "Tweet Jam". What glorious chaos! The topic was the upcoming Identiverse conference, and the goal was to get people thinking about the topics that will be touched on during the week of the conference itself. What is Tweet Jamming? Tweet jamming is a structured and yet… Continue reading Tweet Jamming: The Fun Inherent in Asynchronicity