The Age of Conversation launches today. It is a collection of mostly marketing writers who have contributed some thoughts on what conversation means in the branding world. I found myself among them, contributing a short piece on open listening. The book is available at lulu.com and proceeds are going to charity. We’ve even had our first review. Here is the list of authors for your perusal: Gavin Heaton Drew McLellan CK Valeria Maltoni Emily Reed Katie Chatfield Greg Verdino Mack Collier Lewis Green Sacrum Ann Handley Mike Sansone Paul McEnany Roger von Oech Anna Farmery David Armano Bob Glaza Mark …
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Ted Ernst pionts to an article on leadership in participatory culture. The artile contains the following list of capacities: trust others and trust in the collective ability of a group draw attention to commonality between participants (rather than dividing them with differences) demonstrate active conscious commitment to vision, values, and goals as example to others act responsively to feedback and help grow feedback loops among participants show their humanity, making them credible and proving their integrity regularly listen actively and deeply with distributed credit so decisions seem to come from collective instill a sense of togetherness, a sense of …
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My friend Rowan was exploring some online tools and asking the question, how do we make these tools useful and relevant. My response, which I posted at his blog, goes like this: In my experience what is most important is to first understand what your community needs. For example, a small group in the organization I am currently working with wanted a tool that allowed people to work on a document, but to only have access to the most recent draft. They set up an experimental wiki to do it, but that entailed them all learning wiki …
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Kaliya Hamlin is getting really noticed for her work promoting Open Space in the tech community. The whole idea of unconferencing has jumped the shark, but there is still an art to doing Open Space. It’s easy but not simple, and Kaliya has been a great guardian of the essence of the process as it grows into the tech world in a big way This article from the Business 2.0 blog is another piece of good attention being thrown her way. Actually there are a rash of articles out these days on Open Space, including one in a publication called …
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You know how it is when you are so busy that you don’t have time to even think about your blog much less compose an erudite post about everything you are learning? That’s me right now. But here’s a bit of what I have been doing and some things I’m thinking about: Deepening our work with the Vancouver Island Aboriginal Transition Team including a board strategic planning retreat this weekend where we have asked board members to bring one or two people that support them in their work to contribute to the wisdom in the room. How cool a design …