Building Community in the Civic Space Revitalizing communities in America.

December 2008

The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open)

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‣ Civic Spaces & Collaborative Communities

‣Web 2.0

‣ Your Next Steps

‣ Your First Step: Creating Civic Spaces for Collaborative Communities

‣What is the Civic Space?

‣Why is the Civic Space important?

‣Why collaborate in the Civic Space?

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We begin by practicing new behaviors in the Civic Space to facilitate collaboration.

I-Open develops Civic Spaces to create new habits of thinking and acting together.

This is the first step in creating Collaborative Communities.

• What does community mean to you?

Collaborative Communities are both face to face...

February 7, 2008 Midtown Brews with Meet The Bloggers: Ohio’s Energy Portfolio: Economic Development in Your Backyard

June 10, 2008 Midtown Brews with Meet The Bloggers: The Youngstown Business Incubator: A Global Model of Quality, Connected Business Innovation

...and Collaborative Communities are also online.

I-Open builds collaborative communities online using an integrated Web 2.0 tool set provided by Near-Time, a firm located in Raleigh, N.C.

Northeast Ohio is home to several national models of online Collaborative Communities.

REALNEO (above) and the Lakewood Observer (right)

• What face to face and online communities are you active in or know about?

Collaborative Communities can be both regional...

Examples of I-Open Collaborative Communities based in Northeast Ohio.

...and Collaborative Communities can be national.

I-Open Collaborative Communities launched at national gatherings connect participants once they return home.

Examples of I-Open’s Collaborative Communities based in Northeast Ohio.

Midtown Brewstechnology, creative and energy

Democracy in Actioncitizen-government

networks

WENetworkwomen and leadership enterprise

World of Workworkforce development

Map the Mess political transparency

I-Open Educationskills training

Learning Linkscitizen stories

Open ConversationsLinked Communitiescommunity priorities

Defragcreative digital media

What do collaborative communities offer?

• Trust building

• Networks to break down barriers

• A new generation of cross disciplinary learning skills

• Opportunities for project building or enterprise collaboration using Strategic Doing

• They are fun, social, and convivial

• Name some benefits you have experienced from participating in collaborative communities.

‣ Creating Civic Spaces for Collaborative Communities

‣Web 2.0

‣ Your Next Steps

Social Media tools expand online Collaborative Communities quickly to build global networks and share and receive information instantly...

• Creating accountability to an unseen global audience

• Iterating fast moving comparisons

• With purposeful conversations

• Co-created by community interests

• Designed to focus on critical aspects

Social Media tools help our conversations to stay organized and pro-active by...

For example, the I-Open Education Internet Television channel offers access to anyone...

• Participate regardless of location

• Engage in multi-task learning by

1. chatting live with the class and others online

2. review archived sessions at your convenience

3. share information with colleagues

I-Open Education Internet Television channel

Live Chat

Archivedsessions

Live Show

Creative Brand

Share

• What have you learned from using the Internet?

‣ Creating Civic Spaces for Collaborative Communities

‣Web 2.0

‣ Your Next Steps

Some Next Steps to consider...

• Join the I-Open Education online community

• Begin to think about building enterprise collaboration with a new perspective from the details you will learn Thur and Fri about networks, civility and Strategic Doing.

REALNEO http://realneo.us/

Lakewood Observer http://lakewoodobserver.com/

WIRED-Nation http://wired-nation.net/wiki

Midtown Brews http://midtownbrews.net

Women’s Enterprise Network

http://womensenterprisenetwork.net

Collaborative Communities to explore

New terms of interest

• Networks

• Strategic Doing

• Collaborative Leadership

• Web 2.0

• Collaborative Communities

• Enterprise Collaboration

Important lessons learned from the Open Source Software Industry:

• The overall evolutionary dynamic is reinvention

• Reinvention enables continuous improvement

• Communities co-evolve

• The success of one depends on the success of the other

• From “Community Development and Interaction in Open Source Software Development Projects and Beyond,” Walt Scacchi, Institute for Software Research and Laboratory for Computer Game Culture and Technology, School of Information and Computer Science, University of California Irvine.

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