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Innovation Processes (Staying on the Edge of Cutting) - Session Notes

Submitted by Sarah Pullman on Fri, 2007-09-21 14:34

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.


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