Building Collaborative Communities in the Civic Space
- 1. Building Collaborative Communities in the Civic Space Accelerating innovation in Open Source Economic Development May 2010 The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Avenue Suite 301, Cleveland, Ohio USA 44103 http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net
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- 3. • Civic Spaces • Collaborative Communities • Social Media • Your Next Steps
- 4. I-Open teaches communities how to build open, neutral spaces for new conversations. Where new habits of thinking and acting together are encouraged. We call this the Civic Space. It includes Everyone. This is the first step toward prosperity.
- 5. We practice new behaviors driven by principles to facilitate collaboration. Text
- 6. • Civic Spaces • Collaborative Communities • Social Media • Your Next Steps
- 7. Collaborative communities are formed by people who share common interests, looking for new opportunities, lost hope, or who may just be curious.
- 8. This is what Collaborative Communities look like
- 9. Collaborative Communities are face to face... February 7, 2008 Midtown Brews with Meet The Bloggers: Ohio’s Energy Portfolio: Economic Development in Your Backyard June 10, 2008 Midtown Brews with Meet The Bloggers: The Youngstown Business Incubator: A Global Model of Quality, Connected Business Innovation
- 10. ...and Collaborative Communities are online I-Open builds collaborative communities online using an integrated Web 2.0 tool set provided by Strategy-Nets.net
- 11. Northeast Ohio is home to several national models of online Collaborative Communities REALNEO (above) and the Lakewood Observer (right)
- 12. Collaborative Communities can be regional... Examples of I-Open Collaborative Communities based in Northeast Ohio.
- 13. ...and Collaborative Communities can be national I-Open Collaborative Communities launched at national gatherings connect participants once they return home to stay connected and enable follow up to new opportunities.
- 14. Examples of I-Open Education skills training Learning Links I-Open’s citizen stories Midtown Brews technology, creative and energy Collaborative Map the Mess political transparency Communities based in Linked Communities Open Conversations Northeast Ohio community priorities with a global Defrag reach creative digital media WENetwork women and leadership enterprise Democracy in Action citizen-government networks World of Work workforce development
- 15. What do collaborative communities offer you? • Trust building • Networks to break down barriers • A new generation of cross disciplinary learning skills • Opportunities for project building, or enterprise collaboration • Opportunities for Strategic Doing • Fun and convivial relationships
- 16. Some questions to think about: • Where do you gather with others where you live? • What does collaborating mean to you? • Where do you go to experience ‘community’? • What face to face and online communities do you participate in or know about? • How could a community help you and what you are passionate about?
- 17. • Civic Spaces • Collaborative Communities • Social Media • Your Next Steps
- 18. Social Media tools expand online Collaborative Communities quickly to build global networks and share and receive information instantly...
- 19. Web based conversations • Create accountability to an unseen global audience • Iterating fast moving comparisons • Sustaining purposeful conversations • Engaging in co-created community interests designed to focus on strategic issues
- 20. Social Media tools allow anyone to • Participate regardless of location • Engage in multi-task learning by 1. chatting live with the class and others online 2. review archived sessions at your convenience 3. share information with colleagues
- 21. I-Open Education Internet Television channel Creative Brand Live Show Live Chat Archived sessions Share
- 22. • Civic Spaces • Collaborative Communities • Social Media • Your Next Steps
- 23. • Join an I-Open online community • Learn about the Civic Space, social media, and collaborative communities
- 24. Collaborative Communities to explore http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net http://realneo.us/ http://lakewoodobserver.com/ http://wired-nation.net/wiki https://midtown-brews.strategy-nets.net http://womens-enterprise-network.strategy- nets.net
- 25. Words of interest • civic space • collaborative communities • social media • enterprise collaboration • Strategic Doing
- 26. Open Source Software Industry lessons • The overall evolutionary dynamic is reinvention • Reinvention enables continuous improvement • Communities co-evolve • The success of one depends on the success
- 27. Thank you! Learn more about I-Open http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net