Session facilitator: Michael Silberman, EchoDitto
notes by Jon Stahl
EchoDitto's practice for sharing innovation in their ~20 person organization: weekly, Monday-lunch "creative jam" sessions. Share interesting new tools, statistics, campaigns doing interesting things, etc. "skipping rocks" One hour.
1. One-minute summary
2. Two minutes of questions --- what does it do, how could we use this
in a campaign context.
3. Tag source URLs in del.icio.us (shared delicious account. Tag with
staff name.)
4. Lightly facilitated
5. They don't capture the discussion – only capture the sites via delicious.
They follow the rabbit trails for a couple of minutes.
Bits of discussion
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Alex Samuel: corporations are interested in facebook as a marketing
channel to reach young people, they are afraid of/not interested in
the data. (Canadian privacy laws!)
David Eaves: don't try to keep track of what's going on; think of what
you need and go find it.
How to increase signal to noise when a list/site/feed/channel reaches
its Dunbar number?
Alex Samuel: two files: 1) general information/inspiration file to go
back to later 2) tools for personal productivity/effectiveness/how
you get your own work done.
How do we capture the processes for using things? (Not just lists of tools.)
How to scale awareness/collaboration practices into large enterprises.
URLs that we captured
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Mogulus.com
Camstudio – open source screen recorder for Windows
Firefox screen grab extension
JingProject.com
Skitch – still screen capture app with simple editing, drag tab into
any desktop program. Good for quick emailing of screen shots.
Invitation-only beta.
Robot Replay – javascript that lets youle are watch web visitors'
mouse movements. (Web of Change alumni Andre Charland)
CrazyEgg – heatmaps
PhoneCampaigner.com - Robodialing integrated with Salesforce.
TD (bank) bill-splitting application for facebook.
Green Leaves – facebook app.
Andonomics (?) (formerly appaholic) – evals of Facebook apps.
Social Source Commons – toolsharing for nonprofit techies.
Ohloh.net – tracks open-source stacks and projects.
Slideshare.com – converts PowerPoints to web-shareable format.
Brainstorming Collaboration Practices
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How to effectively tag listserv content.
Today Messages (just google it to find).
Some sort of automated screen showing things (sourced from a tag?) in
a common area.
Office Hours
Chatrooms – e.g. Skype public chats (less techie than IRC). Very
similar, though, max 100 users.
