Presenting at ‘Social Tools for Business Use’ conference
May 3, 2007 – 6:50 amFurther to the success of Unicom’s last Social Tools conference, Julie Valentine and the Unicom team have put together another two day London UK conference dedicated to the fast moving world of ‘everything2.0′.
It will take place on July 11 and 12 in London, and information about the event is on Unicom’s website.
I am going to co-present the experience of working as consultant on CILIP’s online community platform with Lyndsay Rees-Jones, CILIP’s workforce development manager (and my day to day point of contact, co-community-builder and fellow Pink Floyd fan). It will be very interesting.
From the beginning of the job in July 2006, the core team in CILIP’s Department of Knowledge and Information agreed that we would share as many of our findings as possible. We could find very little in the way of real case studies with findings from actual www2 community development projects in organisations.
People expostulate and evangelise a lot (I’m a prime candidate), but all we could find were Headshift’s work on Allen and Overy (which is good and has been passed around The Gurteen group I help out on - thanks Lee). We are also looking forward to KnowledgeBoard’s second book of hands-on case studies but this isn’t here yet. So this is our way of putting a real organisational world case study out there, from the point of view of the consultant and the organisation.
We are going to structure it thus (I think - Lyndsay and I are wiki-ing this one as we go):
- Theory: Context, goals, people and systems
- Practice: social models, organisation design, communities and multi-domain thinking
- Technology: forums, blogs, tags, aggregators, myspace, flickr and physical meetings
- Findings: Real discoveries from the frontline
It’s all good practice for us, learning for everyone, and a wrap up to a project which has been a roller-coaster of genuine engagement for the members of an organisation by the members of an organisation, to keep the organisation alive - not a dandy R&D project, this goes right to the core of what CILIP are up to at a time of exceptional change for them (and many other membership organisations), and is very interesting.
Will we get another Knowledge Cafe afterwards as well? I hope so, that was great fun.
