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What Is Possible When We Open How We Collaborate?
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The intention of this group is to explore and learn about best practices in engaging people in virtual collaboration, talk about what it means to be open collaboratively. The reason I'm doing this in LinkedIn instead of wiserearth is that there seem to be more people engaged in this topic in that community.
If you prefer to keep those conversation on this site, please use the discussion forum above.
Upcoming Events
Pegasus Systems Thinking Conference
Radical Inclusion be hosting a learning session and bringing in a panel of presenters virtually. We will also help to connect keynotes like Peter Senge with those in virtual world who cannot attend via the twittershere.
Radical Inclusion Will Host Session: Open Your Systems for Collaboration
One of the hottest topics in business today is how social media is changing organizational life and behavior. The “open collaboration” movement that began 10 years ago in organizations such as IBM, Proctor and Gamble, and Wikipedia has had a far-reaching impact, and the technologies that enabled such innovations are now changing how people do work in enterprises of all kinds. Social media, such as wikis, micro-blogging, and chat rooms, are powerful ways to connect, collaborate, and co-create well beyond virtual meetings and online marketing. Learn about open collaboration as an exciting frontier for practitioners from across the spectrum.
In this session, participants will:
• Experience synchronous collaboration with our colleagues in different countries connected live across time and space.
• Examine the differences between open and virtual collaboration and the possibilities of cross-boundary collaboration.
• Discover how open collaboration in the virtual would can change us personally as systems thinkers and practitioners.
Presenters:
Lucy Garrick is an organizational consultant and leadership coach with more than 15 years of experience in management in the computer industry. Her work combines her love of strategic and scenario planning with individual leadership. She is also a certified scrum master and received an MA in Whole System Design from the OSR program at Antioch University Seattle. Lucy is a partner in Radical Inclusion, an international virtual consulting firm with expertise in facilitation, organizational development, and social technology.
Holger Nauheimer is CEO of Change Facilitation s.r.o., a global partner who makes change happen in complex environments. As author of the Change Management Toolbook—an online resource on change—he is known as one of the main connectors and network builders in the field of virtual and face-to-face collaboration. Holger is a partner in Radical Inclusion, an international virtual consulting firm that works to create strategies and implementation of social media technology to collaborate across traditional boundaries.
Virtual co-facilitators:
In Bremen, Germany: Hans Gärtner
In Belo Horizonte, Brazil: Stephan Dohrn
In London, UK: Sofia Bustamante
In Berlin, Germany: Juliane Neumann
This year’s conference is held in Seattle, WA USA and explores how trust and abundance can trump fear and scarcity when they are grounded in an appreciation for the structural interdependencies we create and inhabit. Keynotes include Peter Senge, John Seely-Brown and Washington poet laureate, David Whyte.
Nov 2-4, Seattle, WA
The OpenKollab initiative is an ongoing experiment in open collaboration that was generatd by members of Participation Camp (PCamp). Both community process and platform, OpenKollab will help organizations that are strategically aligned explore potential working relationships. It will do this by identifying groups with related goals, highlighting opportunities for resource sharing between those groups, and making it easy for those groups to hold a productive virtual meeting.
The Map Is Not The Territory
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Howard Rheingold of Stanford University in California reminds us that we need only sample the flow. Fundamental of social media is the fact information flows openly Rheingold has identified five new kinds of literacy needed to take advantage of open collaboration using social media...
The Trust Model is Dead. Now What?
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The communal model of trust begins with individual internal trust. People who trust themselves tend to be good global citizens. Collective global governance, in turn, reduces incentives to game a system. This, in turn reinforces the ability to trust the system. The collective trust of people in the system provides a positive self-reinforcing feedback loop. This sort of feedback can both redirect unintentionally inappropriate behavior and expose those who willingly game the system at the cost of the collective.
The individuals’ ability to trust the collective has lead to some
pretty spectacular developments made possible by social media and new
financial models in which the cost of sharing is sublimated by the
benefits of learning. Wikipedia, Mozilla Firefox, Couch Surfers and a
recent software development contest for open government sponsored by
the City of Washington DC are all examples of real value being created
through a new organizational model that looks much more communal than
hierarchical trust.
To read the entire article click here
Recommended LInks
Radical Inclusion Blog- includes thought pieces, projects and other resources on the use of social media for collaborating virtually across arbitrary organizational and community boundaries for positive social change.
Open Space World: a global community resource on Open Space Technology, an open method for convening groups around shared passions. This site is linked to a number of other Open Space community
gathering points and resource sites.
Pegasus Communicaitons: Publication and learning events on Systems Thinking approaches to understanding complex social problems.
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| Hi Lucy, I see that you have a blog and a Twitter account. Fyi, you can stream posts from both using the News module, which is available on the Admin Tools menu (Add a new module). Wibowo Sulistio 12:20 am
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| Hey Lucy, I've fixed the extra news module issue - hopefully that should take care of it! Honore 10:15 am
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| We are looking for sources of social venture funding. Please add to our discussion forum any resources you know of. Lucy 12:53 pm
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| Members: please introduce yourself and tell us why open collaboration is important to you. Lucy 3:39 pm
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| Lets Go Beyond ! It starts with me ! http://www.Humanbeingflag.com David Moore 9:17 am
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| Hi my name is vikz. I joined this grouo becuase I believe in the power if social media and the good that it can do Vikz Richards 10:37 am
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| Hello, my name is Damian. I am interested in using open collaboration as an organizational model. Just learned about RI a few days ago. Damian Tapia 4:58 pm
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| Hi, will love to learn more about open collaboration. Martin Regelsberger 3:17 pm
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| Martin, you probably should be on the OpenKollab mailing list too. Try googling for it. Wibowo Sulistio 7:03 pm
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