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Pipe cleaners are an important part of my toolkit now!

I love it when this happens.

For some, it’s a really useful creative outlet.

In every Connecting the Dots newsletter, I share a quote. These are four of the Martin Luther King quotes I have shared over the years.

#mlkday #mlk

Progress starts with acceptance of your current reality. Instead of waiting for perfect conditions, use whatever skills, tools, and energy you already have.

Even small actions, taken consistently, create momentum and lead to meaningful results.

Important and useful research findings here from my @publicmap.bsky.social colleagues.

Wisdom isn’t about knowing everything - it’s about discernment.

Life is full of details, distractions, and imperfections. Trying to address or react to everything leads to stress.

Wisdom means choosing what truly matters and ignoring what doesn’t.

The Growing Role of Welsh in Lle Llais / Public Map Platform From its beginnings in 2024 to a stronger return in 2025, Lle Llais has shown how Welsh can move from the sidelines to the heart of community events on Ynys Môn. This post explores how the project is ...

Over the past two summers, Lle Llais has shown how events can nurture not only creativity but also the Welsh language as a living part of community life.

publicmap.org/en/blog/the-...

✍️ Emily-Louise Beech

What non-fiction book(s) would you recommend reading?

We're gathering our reading list for 2026 and it would be great to have a bunch of suggestions!

This - dotiau.org/doers-and-im... - will give a flavour of the books we've already read.

YouTube video by Public Map Platform Public Map at The Senedd

Curious minds by day, celebration by night.

Here's a beautiful film of the events we held in the Pierhead and Senedd in September showcasing and celebrating the work of @publicmap.bsky.social.

youtu.be/go-_lPhGQHA

Public Map: helping to realise a wellbeing economy Imagine.  Go on, take a minute.  Close your eyes.  Breathe…  …and imagine a world where people feel secure in their basic comforts and can use their creative energies to support…

Today, I'm off to the second WeAll Cymru Festival of Ideas.

I've written a piece about how @publicmap.bsky.social speaks to the Wellbeing Economy agenda and is a tangible tool and set of practices that contribute to shifting the system.

dotiau.org/2025/11/11/p...

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Chimes with the discussion in our latest book - Empire of AI by Karen Hao.

Couldn't agree more @dotiau.bsky.social - the perfect place to bring everyone together and hear about the latest updates in relation to this important project - thank you all for sharing your work!

Team @publicmap.bsky.social out in full force today at the @wiserd-research.bsky.social annual conference.

It was so great to hear different aspects of Public Map being showcased… and also so much interest in the project.

I love this quote... music is the space between the notes.

That notion that a certain amount of emptiness is appreciated.

That the space between, the liminal space, allows the notes to resonate, to reach their full potential.

That's where the music happens.

Public Map is a wonderful project to work on… and Tristian is fab. No doubt this will be a really interesting conversation.

Everyone’s talking about AI these days! I’m looking forward to reading Karen Hao’s take on things…

Look what I came across in the Pafiliwn Celf at the Urdd Eisteddfod!

A 2D map of Ynys Môn created by pupils from Canolfan Addysg y Bont - a school we, @publicmap.bsky.social, have been working with. Love that they chose to map!

Llongyfarchiadau to the children on their success at the ‘Steddfod 🙌🏻 🥉

Another brilliant discussion…

Thank you @mairsrambles.bsky.social for joining and contributing - as always 📚

It’s 5 years ago today that I published my first issue of Connecting the Dots.

I thought curating things that I come across might help save others time and hopefully would be of interest and useful to people.

And so, here we are about to publish Issue #209!

Diolch for your engagement and support.

When we found out that writable, drawable, doodleable tablecloths were available for our session on ‘community mapping innovation to involve communities, to drive change, and positively shape the future’… we were very excited!

YouTube video by Public Map Platform Public Map Platform Project Summary - English

Want to know what Public Map Platform is all about? Here’s a fab 2 minute explainer 👇🏻

youtu.be/gIcCo5Ltvpo?...

Walescast - ONS: What's gone wrong with the data? - BBC Sounds Fliss and James discuss the problems facing the UK's official statistics agency

For anyone who is interested in data and its use in informing policy, this is well worth listening to.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I am proud and privileged to be a Co-Investigator on this amazing research project and working with a lovely bunch of people.

I really do think it could change the way we involve, understand, and plan with our communities.

Please check out and follow @publicmap.bsky.social for more info.

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Well this morning, I distributed issue 200 (!) of my Connecting the Dots newsletter! 200! That’s…

200 quotes
200 podcasts
200 articles
200 books
200 resources

That I have shared over the last 5 years.

Thank you to everyone who subscribes and who inspires me to continue to share helpful content.

Beautiful light this morning @dotiau.bsky.social HQ ☀️