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

http://www.edmitchell.co.uk

Hello2000…..………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 withoutcommand 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 TerrorWheatley, 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





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)





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


Thanks

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Technology

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