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...).

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.

Potential revisited

The first day of 2gether08, Lloyd Davis wrote an enthused blog entry about its potential and voiced his concern for it may not get realized, and this unconference may end, as so many others, lacking a resolution of that potential. His closing line was “Irony Alert: this post lacks a real resolution.” (read more...);