This Must Be The Place

Lisa Welchman is a digital governance consultant and the author of Managing Chaos: Digital Governance by Design. In this podcast we discuss the growth cycles of organizations, changes in governance since Managing Chaos was released, and how corporate governance models can help communities of any size.

"The choice to do nothing is still a choice. And you shouldn't be naive about that and refusing to look at the consequences of your behavior. Whether that's an individual a business, a nonprofit organization, a Girl Scout troop, whatever. Like that's just not okay, that's not what mature people do. That's what children do. That's what adolescents do. And I feel like the industry of technology and digital spaces is moving out of adolescence into adulthood and it's just not gonna fly anymore." - Lisa Welchman

Special Guest: Lisa Welchman.

Links:

• Lisa Welchman's website
• Digital governance e-learning courses and blogs
• Managing Chaos at Rosenfeld Media
• The Paradox Of Open Growth - Lisa Welchman's keynote at DrupalCon Prague 2013
• Lisa Welchman on Twitter
• Lisa Welchman's music

Shawna Potter is the lead singer for the punk band War on Women and the author of Making Spaces Safer on AK Press. In this podcast we talk about the punk rock community, the importance of all-ages scenes, and how to create safer spaces for everyone.

"Something happened kind of early on in the band, where my brain shifted a little bit and I started thinking that if a band called War On Women can't call out someone in the moment for harassing us or harassing an audience member or being shitty ... If we can't do it, well, who can. I started to accept the responsibility of being in a feminist political band, that is a hardcore punk band. We've got to be ready to back up the righteous anger that we're yelling about, that we're expressing musicall and lyrically" - Shawna Potter

Special Guest: Shawna Potter.

Links:

• The 5Ds of Bystander Intervention
• War on Women at Bridge 9 Records
• War on Women Bandcamp
• Making Spaces Safer at AK Press
• Shawna Potter

Tenessa Gemelke and Kristina Halvorson are the driving forces behind Confab, a content strategy and user experience conference that has just completed its tenth year. Since its creation, Confab has stood out from other tech conferences by creating a diverse and vibrant community for its attendees and speakers. In this episode Tenessa and Kristina talk about Confab's history, transitioning Confab to an online event, and their brand new conference Button.

"Without actively soliciting the perspectives and the experiences and the approaches of these folks who are on the front lines who maybe haven't written books and maybe haven't been blogging or don't have a podcast or haven't had the chance on the stage ... if we don't draw those voices in and lift them up we're going to stagnate as an industry. There is so much about giving individuals that opportunity to stand in the spotlight and sit and say their piece and share their wisdom." - Kristina Halvorson

Special Guests: Kristina Halvorson and Tenessa Gemelke.

Links:

• Tenessa Gemelke on Twitter
• Kristina Halvorson on Twitter
• Confab
• Button
• Brain Traffic
• Tenessa's viral leek tweet

Lisa Maria Marquis is an independent consultant in content-driven information architecture, working to help teams understand, organize, and structure their web content for empowering user experiences. In this conversation, we talk about private digital communities and the place they play in people's lives.

"If you don't set those expectations, then what happens is you're watching a TV show together, you're talking about a TV show together, and it's all surface. It doesn't go any deeper. You don't engage with it, and you don't engage with each other. And then that's not a community. It's not personal. Then what's the point? You know, if you're not going to make a real connection, what's the point?"

Special Guest: Lisa Maria Marquis.

Links:

• Swear Trek (Twitter)
• Lisa Maria Marquis' website
• Lisa Maria Marquis on Twitter
• Everyday Information Architecture
• Holodex Machina Tumblr

David Dylan Thomas is a Content Strategy Advocate at ThinkCompany in Philadelphia and the host of the Cognitive Bias Podcast. In this podcast we talk about how the phrasing of questions influences answers, the ways design influences discourse, and how capitalism is ruining everything.

"You have in your head, oh, I will get more clicks if people are angry, right? But people are yelling at each other on my platform, so it isn't necessarily true, right? There's all sorts of science around, like, what motivates people to share content, and anger does it but then so does wonder and hope."

Special Guest: David Dylan Thomas.

Links:

• David Dylan Thomas' website
• David Dylan Thomas on Twitter
• Cognitive Bias Podcast
• Design For Cognitive Bias on A Book Apart
• Polis polling platform
• ReThink platform