Sg2009wc:collaborative
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Title: Building Collaborative Communities
Session: 5-H Bay Area Jan 2009
Convener:Margaret Rosas
Attendees:
Notes:
1. Two aspects – tech and offline
2. Tech
- the social, personal, offline interaction has become more important now
- human connection in times of difficulty/crisis
- how do you control the vibe of an online group?
- some participants can help monitor
- guidelines very important
- tech is moving to more public and personal
- online has two components – live and reflective
- transparency can cause challenges/difficulties
3. Offline
- Food and human interaction is powerful right now
- the things we do offline can be applied online
4. How do we combine these two aspects to create collaborative communities?
- enlist power users
- give people recognition
- combination can fast track community
- use video and video meetings
- hold in person events to strengthen relationships
- new site for video sharing, live video chatting www.pazom.com
- second life meetings – has good options but hardware is expensive
- callrecorder.com, talkbox.com, youstream.com
- value of online communities – provides a new channel for publicizing nonprofits
- mediashift.org reports on what’s happening with the media
- Mozilla: IRC not enough, building new communities
- Siliconcvalleymoms.com – example, have meetings
- story telling helps people get to know you
- go first – that puts others at ease
- other ideas – personal greeting for newcomers
- respond to blog – show you care and are interested
- identify a community manager
5. Keys to success:
- monitor the online
- nurture your members
6. Other
- pdf on how to make connections between people who don’t know each other at www.heathergold.com/speaking (presentation made to Google)