Last week’s confab call was great, and if you couldn’t join us we highly recommend you listen to the audio recording.  We featured NCDD members Tina Nabatchi and Cynthia Farrar, discussing their DDC report “Bridging the Gap between Public Officials and the Public,” engaging callers in their learnings about state and federal public officials’ views on public engagement (or lack thereof) and some of their recommendations for the field going forward.

We had 70 participants, many thoughtful comments (during the call and in the Google doc we used as another stream of engagement), and experimented with a community news segment at the end of the call.

Use the link below to listen to the audio recording of the main segment of the call.  We think you’ll find it worth a listen!

1. Listen to the Confab Call.
The full conversation with question and comments.  36Mb 1:16:15 (mp3)*

2. Check out the Confab Call’s Collaborative Google Doc.
Participants were encouraged to introduce themselves, ask questions and respond to discussion points.  436k (pdf)

Andy Fluke

Andy Fluke is the co-founder of NCDD and currently provides creative support to many of NCDD's publications and events. He also works with a handful of other NCDD members on a variety of projects as consultant and designer. More about his work can be found at www.andyfluke.com.

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