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Yoosk engages the audience

One of the most interesting and versatile online tools for public engagement presented at 2gether08 was Yoosk, which enables people to pose questions directly to politicians and other major figures. Participants can vote on the questions to indicate those they feel really deserve an answer, which makes it all that bit more democratic. (read more...).

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Spirited Away - what next for 2gether

I have organised dozens of events and meet ups of one kind or another over the past few years with a focus on emerging technologies, education and social innovation so 2gether08 felt like something like the culmination of many years of work. Often people ask me what my goals are, in terms of outcomes for events, and generally I respond perhaps ambivalently that I am sanguine about what happens, that I trust people to come together and do good things without me directing them towards any particular goals. This has always felt consistent with the style of our events and I have always felt somewhat vindicated when I hear months and even years later that people who met at my events have gone on to collaborate on business ventures and new projects etc. (read more...).

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Joanne’s guide to lifecasting

Joanne Jacobs is Australian, an academic and a (read more...).

July 23, 2008

Jon Gisby of C4 explains the 4IP fund

Channel 4’s new £50 million innovation fund 4IP isn’t really open for business until later in the year - but at 2gether08 Jon Gisby, director of new media and technology, provided a “soft launch” which gave insights into how it will operate. (read more...).

July 22, 2008

Unconferences, Open Space, and the future of organisational innovation

(This post was first published at CommunityIntelligence.)
Many young social and tech innovators believe that if people want to be innovative they have to get out of the organisations. Too much control and permission asking kill the spirit of innovation, as they say. Yet, organisations don’t stay immune to the impact of such tech-enabled, social life forms as communities of practice, knowledge networks, professional learning communities, open source innovation, innovation communities, etc… In fact, visionary leaders sponsor them. (read more...).

July 20, 2008

JP recaps Cluetrain: we are human amidst the tech

Among the many presentations at 2gether08, the one that led to lots of “did you catch that …” remarks was JP Rangaswami talking about the Cluetrain Manifesto ten years on. At the event is seemed like a touchstone for our explorations of the relationships of people, technology, commerce and society. Now you can see JP here, introduced by Euan Semple. (read more...).

July 17, 2008

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I've written a lengthy post on my blog about the different tools that we used in reporting 2gether08, and the team effort to make it work. David Wilcox. #
You can follow 2gether08 on Summise here >, or see it at the bottom of our home page. Not yet using Twitter? Help here >. #
Dave Briggs explains how he and others will be using the social media game at 2gether08 to help develop a communiversity for local carbon communities, planned by Tracey Todhunter. #
Mick Fealty surveys the online political landscape on his Telegraph blog, to set the scene for the lunchtime debate next Wednesday Is our politics big enough to cope with the web. #
The finalists for the New Statesman New Media Awards 2008 are announced here. #

Welcome to 2gether09

Here we go again - this years 2gether summer festival will be held over the 7th - 9th July 2009 at a central London venue - keep tabs on this site www.open2gether.com for updates and news…

We had a fantastic time over two days last July, in London - where some 350 people explored how digital technologies can bring us major new social benefits. You’ll find reports on this site, a record of conversations on Twitter here, and more on our networking site. There’s a roundup of other coverage here.