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I’m blogging now from a BrainJams<\/a> session in downtown San Francisco. This particular BrainJam is part of a pre-conference training for the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation 2006 Conference<\/a>. I’d like to say I arrived here on purpose and knew exactly what I was getting into, but that would be a lie. The truth is I was carried here by the BlogHer current, and decided not to argue with the universe. I met Chris Heuer at the first WoolfCamp<\/a>, where he passionately described the concept of BrainJams to me over cheese and crackers. It’s a place for people to get together, share ideas, talk about what they’re passionate about, and gather resources. More or less a freeform jamming of the brains. I loved it immediately, and then promptly forgot to look up the dates.So when Badgerbag<\/a> told me to “come on Thursday!” and took it upon herself to sign me up, I just blinked and said, “Okay. Cool.” Chris added to my disorientation by referring to me as one of the most “enlightened technologists he knows” in his welcome email \/ blog post<\/a>. (How did I earn that<\/i> title?)So I did what any sane person would do in such a compelling situation. I showed up. And I’m glad I did. It’s an all-day session that’s still going on (we’re discussing blogs and flickr right now, so I’m taking a mental break to write to you), and I’ve met some amazing people.BrainJams has a signature concept called “Twelve Five-Minute Meetings,” in which people pair up for five minutes, discuss what work they’re most passionate about, offer suggestions or feedback, and then move on to the next pair-up. It was FASCINATING! By far my favorite part of the event (so far). Check this out. Kai is running a project called Orange Band<\/a>, which is basically a viral guerilla tactic to get people talking about things that matter to them. Jerry runs a guild of right-brain thinkers who stay networked with one another for projects. He’s also been hosting a weekly podcasted conference call on “Conversations About Change” called Yi-Tam<\/a>. Hal’s got a new business called FAQ Productions<\/a> in which he interviews professionals on video, finds that unique element about them that makes them real<\/i>, collaborates with the client to cut the film, and the posts it on their websites as part of their bio. Imagine going to an attorney’s website and seeing a 2-minute video that brings out her personality as a real human being. It’s creative and important. Check out this amazing Flickr-interactive Color Picker<\/a> from KrazyDad (he’s not here, but someone’s bragging about him). I’m exploding with ideas, and wish I could stay for the the whole conference. People are doing cool things<\/i> these days, and 40 of them are sitting right next to me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.I’m blogging now from a BrainJams session in downtown San Francisco. This particular BrainJam is part of a pre-conference training for the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation 2006 Conference. I’d like to say I arrived here on purpose and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}