January 06, 2006

Web 2.0 Launch Teleconference

Barb McDonald prepared a cool summary of the teleconference (she couldn't attend but listened to the MP3 recording afterwards) that are excerpted here:
The conference began as a result of a project in the Foundations of Communities of Practice, where the team concluded that the application of Web2.0 deliverables wouldn't necessarily change the way we cultivate Cops. They concluded that Web 2.0 tools would:
  1. help online cops emerge more easily,
  2. make initial support of initial collaborative effort cheaper and more available to more people quicker,
  3. introduce the culture of online community working to a wider audience,
  4. reduce the amount of evangelizing and training to get people to work online,
  5. make it easier to generate the desire for action
The telephone conversation was “messy,” with lots of sidetracks, as most powerful conversations tend to work. Highlights of questions and objectives to be answered by our conference are:
  1. What are the tools available?
  2. How can an existing community use them
  3. How can each tool help the formation of a new community?
  4. How to use the tools to help people focus their attention?
  5. Help me be better able to discuss the pros and cons of a tool with my IT department, boss, client, etc.
  6. Identifying and beginning to resolve trust issues:
    • Trust within the people in organizations to allow for a different way to create knowledge
    • Trust within the organization to allow access to tools (e.g. get past firewalls to enter chat rooms, to have access to new tools, etc.)
  7. Learning the new tools takes time – is there a set of building blocks or processes for learning these tools
In a discussion of the “messiness of knowledge sharing” in communities, a working conclusion emerged: ‘The looseness and richness comes from interaction between community and technology wherein neither the technology nor the community drive, rather the interaction that the community creates drives the community and the tools it uses.’
Note that it's still possible to register for the Web 2.0 Conference. (Or consider Joining! us!)
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