Hello 2000…..………2002…………..2004……………..2006……..…..2007…… 2008.. I am an organisations and communities consultant and ‘blended facilitator’. In other words, I help groups of people do the things that they want and/or need to do.

Hello

Two books http://www.amazon.co.uk/Enough-John-Naish/dp/0340935901/ http://www.wethinkthebook.net/home.aspx

… and a quick quote “… This is a world that knows how to organize itself without command and control or charisma. Everywhere, life self-organizes as networks of interdependent relationships. When individuals discover a common interest or passion, they organize themselves and figure out how to make things happen. Self-organizing evokes creativity and results, creating strong, adaptive systems. Surprising new strengths and capacities emerge from new relationships…” Leadership of Self-Organized Networks; Lessons from the War on Terror Wheatley, Margaret J. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 20(2) pp.59-66

Our route for 12 minutes Introduction Case study: Bristol Climbing Centre Case study: activmob Review

Introduction

Case study: Bristol Climbing Centre

Case study: activmob

Review

Bristol climbing centre

Website http://www.undercover-rock.com/

Facebook group

The instructors’ sites and blogs

Lots and lots of emails “… If you would like a space on this session then e.mail me back and I will let you know if there is a space available…” http://www.ianmillard.co.uk

Lots of posters on walls

Much mobile telephony http://nulovka.blogspot.com/2007/07/first-cell-phones.html

3rd party: Bouldr: route sharing http://bouldr.net/

Distributed community tools

Lots of activity and tools, but… Multiple connection points and activities Continuous re-invention of different wheels (technology solutions) Lots of time spent fiddling with all this stuff Infinitely expandable, but not coherently Not joined up: logistically with the bigger picture in mind Data going everywhere that could be used to achieve something bigger

Multiple connection points and activities

Continuous re-invention of different wheels (technology solutions)

Lots of time spent fiddling with all this stuff

Infinitely expandable, but not coherently

Not joined up:

logistically

with the bigger picture in mind

Data going everywhere that could be used to achieve something bigger

Our route for 12 minutes Introduction Case study: Bristol Climbing Centre Case study: activmob Review

Introduction

Case study: Bristol Climbing Centre

Case study: activmob

Review

Platforms to enable communities http://www.activmob.com/ http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/Case-Studies/All-Case-Studies/Activmobs/

Platforms to enable communities http://www.activmob.com/news/horsmonden-amblers

Benefits of supportive model Coherent and flexible model for all groups support Suitable support for different actors in a group’s system Accessible and inclusive for all Effective data management opens up new opportunities Effective facilitation to support emergence and motivation Localised business models can emerge and be supported Growing self-populating database for: Intra-communities’ collaboration research marketing meta-community development

Coherent and flexible model for all groups support

Suitable support for different actors in a group’s system

Accessible and inclusive for all

Effective data management opens up new opportunities

Effective facilitation to support emergence and motivation

Localised business models can emerge and be supported

Growing self-populating database for:

Intra-communities’ collaboration

research

marketing

meta-community development

Engagement planning (Wilcox, D, 2006)

Our route for 12 minutes Introduction Case study: Bristol Climbing Centre Case study: activmob Review

Introduction

Case study: Bristol Climbing Centre

Case study: activmob

Review

So, in review Software is not a ‘solution’, it’s a tool to realise the patterns we need Design and plan the model before going near ‘technology’ centrally and openly to wider stakeholders Model needs to afford multiplicity and centricity, publicity and privacy Facilitation is required and should be taken seriously from design phase physical and virtual, marketing and community building ROI – big question – must generate results: quantitative, qualitative actual cash opportunities for actors in system potential tie-ins with health/activity targets

Software is not a ‘solution’, it’s a tool to realise the patterns we need

Design and plan the model before going near ‘technology’

centrally and openly to wider stakeholders

Model needs to afford multiplicity and centricity, publicity and privacy

Facilitation is required and should be taken seriously from design phase

physical and virtual, marketing and community building

ROI – big question – must generate results:

quantitative, qualitative

actual cash opportunities for actors in system

potential tie-ins with health/activity targets

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