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Joanne’s guide to lifecasting

Joanne Jacobs is Australian, an academic and a consultant in social networking technologies. So when she presented at 2gether08, on lifecasting and microblogging, she offered a great mix, catering for distant friends viewing the webcast and giving us plenty of stats as well as terrific insights into how (read more...).

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    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
Sharing brand, ceding control, gaining influence

Steve wrote:

> [K]eeping the community together and allowing it to grow and diversify is something we need to think hard about. My instincts are to do this is a way that is participative in keeping with the 2gether vibe. George Por and David Wilcox have already submitted ideas about how this could be achieved and have suggested I look at some of the emerging open franchise models that being experimented with.

Thank you David for calling our attention to the Open Franchise model! I looked into it; it inspired some ideas, to which I will come back in another post. (read more...) another post.

July 16, 2008

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Welcome to 2gether08

2gether08 has been a festival of ideas and action.

We had a fantastic time over two days - July 2-3 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.

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