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A Walkshop to Remember: Reflections on the Inner Belt Brickbottom Walkshop

By Matthew Weinstein | Published: August 8, 2011

I came to PlaceMatters this summer from Somerville, Massachusetts, a Boston-area city best known as Cambridge’s slightly grittier, more affordable, and no-nonsense neighbor to the north.  I’m a proud two-time resident of Somerville, and in my time there I’ve gotten to know my adopted hometown—the most densely-populated municipality in New England—block-by-block, one triple-decker and Brazilian [...]

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DIY touchtable technology integrated with GIS

By Ken Snyder | Published: March 14, 2011

This Fall, PlaceMatters broke new ground in the application of our DIY touchtable integrated with CommunityViz and Brainstorm Anywhere. On Cape Cod, we used 4 tables simultaneously to enable a “where do we grow” exercise with 4 teams. With the touchtables, participants were able to add jobs and housing and changes in transit services directly [...]

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OpenIDEO: Brainstorming for Design

By Jason Lally | Published: February 24, 2011

IDEO is a fairly well known design (as in industrial and human interface, not planning) firm.  Recently they rolled out OpenIDEO, which is “a place where people design better, together for social good.”  It is a platform for the structured, but open discussion of complex problems.  I really like this interface and concept and it [...]

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Brainstorm Anywhere back in the cloud

By Jason Lally | Published: December 1, 2010

Brainstorm Anywhere is under ongoing development but inches closer to a beta release. After losing hosting with Aptana Cloud (because of site closure) we have moved the site over to Rackspace Cloud. So far, so good! We are also now working on an integrated translation feature, better text analysis and theme detection, and segmented keypad [...]

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PlaceMatters’ new offering, AnyWare, beginning closed beta

By Jason Lally | Published: April 6, 2010

AnyWare is a project I’ve been working on closely for a while at PlaceMatters. It is a web-based tool to brainstorm and evaluate ideas both in real time and over periods of time by large groups of people. It is a definite work in progress, but we are ready to begin letting a certain set of users [...]

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