Nancy White gave a great presentation about people and the interaction with the blogosphere at Moose Camp. Here are the notes that I took.
Roles in Network:
Filters
Amplifiers
Conveners
Facilitators
Investors
Community builders
Skills for learning with others:
Listen, Fliter (search, Tag, bookmark) annotate, blog
Be unkonwing
REciprocate
Facilitation for:
Relationshiop
Identity/REputation
presence
Flow
Facilitation skills:
the Classics
Informed by ICT
Space Holding
Improvisational
Creatively Abrasive (Leonard)
Shouting doesn’t work online the way it does face to face
Convening Conversations:
Invite
Name the Question
Initiate
Design for local choice
Nurture
Art of the Invitation critical compencay:
Intercultural antennae
Broadly defined
“default” culture
Heart variations
Biggest Challenge?
Intercultural skills:
look…read
live/work/play
Fala! (speak)
Bridge
Tolerance for Ambiguity:
OK with ‘not in control’, not knowing
Move forward without certainty.
Ability to switch contexts:
Multi-membership mavens
connectors
Networkers
multiple perspectives
Outsiderness
The struggle is the solution:
See the reality in the current situation
Grieve the cost for what exists now
Treat the conversation as action.
There are two ways of spreading the light:
To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.