It covers all of our strategic planning, the tools we used, activities we pursued (and chose not to pursue), the lessons we learnt and the metrics we measured by. And there are some handy diagrams.

Download the full report here:
Which Widget for What? Media Sandbox 2008 Report

Here’s the intro:

“…Much has been made of the potential of web 2.0 or social media technologies to harness knowledge and network distributed communities, but how easy is it for organisations to effectively use these widgets and websites?

In November 2007, as part of the Media Sandbox commissioning scheme,  iShed set out to explore how organisations could integrate and deploy digital technologies and new facilitation methods to support collaborative research and build a Community Of Interest around a research topic…”

We set out on this trip with a mutual agreement to share our findings with others interested in the suitable application of all this web2.0 stuff in an organisation. I am proud that we got there and are publishing it.

Many thanks to Clare Reddington of iShed for being a pro-active, approriately daring, and wise collaborator.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate get in touch. The only constant is change and the learning never stops.

Download the full report here:
Which Widget for What? Media Sandbox 2008 Report

Other reports from this project:

• Launch event report
• Early case study
• Final event report

Download the podcast from Matt’s site

Things I am ruminating upon since:

• My matrix of Public/Private/Personal/Political could be Public/Private/Personal/Professional
• A good word for ‘blended facilitation’ could be ‘amphibious’ (Mr Moore)
• It is OK to make mistakes and discuss them (just as well if you are as relentlessly declarative as me)
• Blended facilitation is not just a linear online/offline group knowledge transformation model – it is also to understand the modalities – video/audio/touch and how to switch between them so it’s almost becoming a design issue
• Personalities do play a big role in all this (I must write my personalities post soon)
• I still love the concept of group technology being “designed for the group, but experienced individually” (Nancy)
• Given this idea of individual experience, we must ensure that there is significant overlap (between a flickr fan and a blogger) so that the core group activities and communications are maintained
• The proliferation of new technologies is great for early adopters, but we as facilitators need to remember that our groups feel overwhelmed by it all and simply may not have the time to interact like early adopters
• We all agreed that the core community data (posting figures, behavioural stuff, reputation indicators) belong to the community and should be made available to them
• More reflective practice could be introduced into community facilitation – rather than saying ‘what do you think of X’ (moderation), perhaps we should ask ‘what do you think of my activity?’…

And more. Thanks to Matt for sorting it out, and Nancy for sharing her time with us. Again, again!