All Together Now 01/05/08 presentation; how physical communities can be supported virtually

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.

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

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

Introduction
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

Engagement planning (Wilcox, D, 2006)

Introduction
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

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All Together Now 01/05/08 presentation; how physical communities can be supported virtually

by Ed Mitchell on May 02, 2008

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