On / Offline Community fusion?

David Wilcox and I ran a brief un-conference session at the NESTA uploading event recently. Lloyd Davis popped his head in the door and make an impromptu video. The clip below features about 5 minutes of the group in discussion.

It was an eclectic group with a broad range of views from commercial, public sector, and international organisations. Especially interesting was hearing from Dan who handles web issues for Amnesty.

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Comments

[Dr Savi]

Gr8 2 c video being used to capture the moment so well.
Interesting points on Attitude and participation.
However, I wonder about confidence.
Take for example back in '05 when I was invited to a physical rather than virtual conference. It was for the NPfiT (NHS IT standards) - National Programme For information Technology - you know the programme that wants to standardise systems and information accross current disparate environments.
Anyway I was invited to a planning workshop as at the time I was working on a piolot to set-up a National child immunisation database. There was approx 25 people in the room. One of the regionally awarded service company's was running the session. The majority in attendance were from the latter company.
Facilitationwise - no summaries, no breakouts and no techniques to rather views from different personalities.

Bad news at the end, the nurse that looked after the deaf child care and the dentist both commented privately that they felt that they had not heard or had their views recorded.

Sure, in a virtual world they may have contributed but a big factor is confidence and articulation.
It is not a disaster, social comment is great but I know with one of the podcasts I run one of my listeners has problems with the technology and asks me to cut and paste his emails.

This means that no matter how simple we make technology and the opportunity to communicate, there will be those that will be deprived of 'joining in'. Maybe one answer is to create a multiple routes to community based systems, Say, the creation of spokespersons that can champion others.

[Dr Savi]

Gr8 2 c video being used to capture the moment so well.
Interesting points on Attitude and participation.
However, I wonder about confidence.

Take for example back in '05 when I was invited to a physical rather than virtual conference. It was for the NPfiT (NHS IT standards) - National Programme For information Technology - you know the programme that wants to standardise systems and information accross current disparate environments.
Anyway I was invited to a planning workshop as at the time I was working on a pilot to set-up a National child immunisation database. There was approx 25 people in the room. One of the regionally awarded service company's was running the session. The majority in attendance were from the latter company.
Facilitationwise - no summaries, no breakouts and no techniques to rather views from different personalities.

Bad news at the end, the nurse that looked after the deaf child care and the dentist both commented privately that they felt that they had not heard or had their views recorded.

Sure, in a virtual world they may have contributed but a big factor is confidence and articulation.
It is not a disaster, social comment is great but I know with one of the podcasts I run one of my listeners has problems with the technology and asks me to cut and paste his emails.

This means that no matter how simple we make technology and the opportunity to communicate, there will be those that will be deprived of 'joining in'. Maybe one answer is to create a multiple routes to community based systems, Say, the creation of spokespersons that can champion others.

[Matt O'Neill]

i'd add that those 'spokespersons' could actually be a sort of 'network node operator'. i.e someone to drive and facilitate connections within the online network.

leaving platforms to look after themselves doesn't seem to be an option nowadays!

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[Dr Savi]

Between us have we just created a new role?
Let us not consider them as future recruits for the first ship to be sent ahead of impending doom of the Earth being engulfed by giant whatevers'. I'm assuming you've read the Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy where all the really useful people are boarded into ships. Back to being serious there could be an opportunity to create the an internal account manager function aka Business Communications manager - a rep to engage, capture, summarise and then transmit the internal thoughts of an organisation, the equivalent of message receptors.