The document discusses how people interact and connect through online networks and platforms. It explores concepts like community building, participation, collaboration, and facilitation in digital spaces. Examples mentioned include social networks, blogs, virtual worlds, comments, and tools that enable sharing and connection across the internet.
Title is a nod to colleagues in the audience who are film buffs. Is anyone a fan of Chance the Gardner? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/) My metaphor may land askew (not the first time), but as a simple person thrust into a strange new world by sheer circumstance, maybe he was foreshadowing web 2.0-- and his child like basic perspectives is what so engaged people around him. In thinking about this session, I kept returning to the value and power of “being there” with all of this exploding technology.