Ideas
From BlueOxen
Loosely formed ideas. To be refactored later.
How do you catalyze collaboration? Think Out Loud, Ship Product, Report Out -- prerequisites for emergence, even if the outcome is not immediate or guaranteed.
What is the Role of an Organization in a Network / Community? If you can't organize self-organization, then what role does an organization play? Case studies (see Network Mission Statements):
- BlogHer
- Planetwork / 1Society
- Identity Commons (IC1 as chaordic versus IC2 as ?)
- NTEN
- IETF
- New Progressive Coalition
- Sustainable Civil Society (project of Natural Capital Institute)
- Making Connections
- RE-AMP
- and of course, Blue Oxen Associates
Patterns of High-Performance Collaboration:
Process
- Facilitation and Face To Face Events with emergent structure
- Dialogue Mapping
- Asynchronous vs Synchronous Collaboration
Facilitating the coevolution of collaborative tools.
- Interoperability Versus Assimilation
- Wikis
- Identity
- FLOSS Usability Sprints
Learning Community for Collaboration (via Collaboratories)
Those who deeply understand collaboration rarely self-identify as experts in collaboration. They tend to be domain experts who need to collaborate effectively to do their jobs effectively. (See "Clustering in the Margins.")
We need to think more seriously about the craft of collaboration -- a cognitive framework for thinking about collaboration and expressing best practices. However, we also need to be careful to avoid the Professionalization of collaboration.
Patterns Of Collaboration play a big role.
Social impact:
