The Social Web (Web 2.0 and beyond)
A brief tour of social networking tools with a view to developing strategies, plans and techniques for participating in online conversation with your stakeholders. Building on the ClueTrain assertion that “markets are conversations”, and taking cues from face to face conversation in “real life” we will take a brief tour of social media tools – paying more attention to those which help us listen. By the end of this session you should be able to begin listening for online conversations relevant to your work, and hopefully you will figure out how to gain some benefit from the old saying ‘you have two ears and one mouth – use them in that proportion’
Presenter:
Mike Seyfang – Social Media Consultant

@fang

ConnectingUp

Note: this is audio taken from a qik video taken with a mobile phone and stitched together with whatever source available so is not complete … audio quality varies accordingly.

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Originally uploaded by dnwallace

I’ve been watching the info coming out of Sydney from the ConnectingUp Conference (or, not coming out, with the connection probs they’ve been having).

This image shows the state of my screen as I was following stuff. Interestingly I heard Mike talk about me spending a lot of time in Second Life – which I was while watching #cua09 and at exactly as he said it.

I also had the twitter stream of the conference tag being displayed on my 40″ Sony TV across the other side of my room. I was using VisibleTwitter full screen, and would glance at it every so often.

You can catch a small video below, taken with my digital camera, of what it looked like.

VisibleTweets is from http://www.themaninblue.com/
Witter @visibletweets

This is from Allen Gunn, (Gunner) Executive Director of Aspiration.

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Note: this is audio taken from a qik video taken with a mobile phone and stitched together with whatever source available so is not complete … audio quality varies accordingly.

Followed a Twitter on Sat afternoon that she was streaming live on Qik – unfortunately she quickly experienced the bottleneck that exists to any serious entry of Australia participating the Information Economy – our network access.

Click here for full image of above.

Dave

Technorati Tags: beth kanter, cup08, network, cu08, connectingup

It’s reflected in the comment I jotted down here while liveblogging. During his keynote, Daniel Ben-Horin from Compumentor made reference to the emergence of a fourth platform. Mike Twittered it at the time as this : “May 14, 2007 Mike Seyfang: Now it gets interesting – Daniel Ben-Horin: the fourth platform (the terrain has shifted)”

This whole “Social Sector”, as Laurel terms it, encompasses all the elements of ‘Free as in Freedom’ and is an economy of sharing that builds with relationship and thrives on openness and connection. All the things that amplify an individual’s life ’signal’.

Here’s a snippet from Laurel’s post “dotSub and the fourth Social Sector”

Social Sector is destroying companies and doesn’t even notice. Government – watch out, Social Sector is only about activism, without even realising it.

Get over there and read it all. Go on…you know you want to.

Dave

(Photo by 4MAX, via flickr)

[tags]cu07, social sector, activism, fourth platform, openness, freedom, signal[/tags]

“Nice is the new black”

Daniel Ben-Horin – President (CompuMentor) – USA 

[tags]cu07[/tags]

Access Credentials
User Name :
Password :
A pre-paid card is required to use this service. These can be purchased from the hotel.
Unused time on pre-paid cards is not refundable.

Wonder how much more business there is in offering wireless access bundled with conferences.

It’s all as I heard it – ymmv.

Senator Helen Coonan – Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (LIB)

Internet (broadband) – The fifth utility
Opposes ALP ‘fibre to the node’
Telstra
G9 (Optus led)
Won’t build where industry will.
Communication fund $9 Billion (for country etc).
Top 10 OECD countries for BB takeup.

$162M broadband connect fund for regional.
National BB Network for regional areas. To be completed 2009.

$562.5 M has been put nto Innovative programs for ICT.

E-strategy guide launched CU06 (seems old to me)
3rd Section Expansion Program – 3STEP report Taking paper to OCC

$113M Clever Networks Program..?
Disability ?

Paper-Broadband …

Guidelines for 2nd round Clever Networks program released.
—–
Senator Stephen Conroy- Shadow Minister for Communications & Information Technology (ALP)

Burrito project on myspace as example of scaleable commity project.

BB more than just faster internet.
Is important economic Infrastructure as important as other utilities.

Issue moved from IT pages to front pages.
Up there with Education & Climate change.
Speed rated 26/30
Quality 21st

Minister told office to stop collection of these stats re Bb.
Australia BB backwater.

Touched on de-centralisation. Tele-working.
ALP would provide $4.7Bn over 5 years in collaboration with private.
Fibre to node network.
Deliver absolute min 12mb/s to 98% country.

Telstra & G9 (Optus led) network Govt. Mentioned would only build for 5 cap cities and major centres.

[tags]cu07[/tags] ]]> http://dnwallace.com/blog/2007/05/14/australian-broadband-view-from-both-sides-of-government/feed/ 0 http://dnwallace.com/blog/2007/05/10/connectingup-2007/ http://dnwallace.com/blog/2007/05/10/connectingup-2007/#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 09:34:50 +0000 dnw http://dnwallace.com/blog/?p=239 Next week I’m off to ConnectingUp 2007 Conference. This is Australia’s premiere conference for Non Profit Technology ventures. And lucky for me it’s held in Adelaide.

I’ll be doing a bit of live blogging from the event from my phone so look out here for that or on Technorati for the cu07 tag.

If you are taking photos or blogging about the conference, use cu07 tag and keep an eye out on delicious for http://del.icio.us/tag/cu07.

I will be hanging in the ‘Starting your blog’ Part 1 workshop on day one giving my mate Mike Seyfang support and anyone a hand where needed.

Conference Scedule

[tags]adelaide, cu07[/tags]

I knew these things would be used for unsavoury purposes, but never dreamt it would be this shocking!

Dave

Mike (Learndog-Left) & Dave (Lifekludger-Right) – Thanks Lab for posting the pic.

I’ve given more info. on my Lifekludger post here.

Mike’s got a bit on the presentation here too.

Oh, and our podcast was born today.

To subscribe to conference podcasts, tune your ‘PodCatcher’ software to:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/cu06podcast

You can expect to hear a couple of pre-conference interviews with CISA CEO Doug Jacquier, at least two sessions from the conference (maybe more if there is enough demand), and some post-conference discussion. Monday morning’s session ‘Connecting and Speaking to Communities using WeBLOGS and PodCasts‘ by David Wallace and Mike Seyfang and Tuesday’s plenary session ‘Towards a national strategy for developing the ICT capacity for the nfp sector‘ will be podcast.

Full list of sessions, speakers and other information available from the conference website.

What is Upcoming.org?
Upcoming.org is a collaborative event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Enter in the events you’re attending, comment on events entered by others, and syndicate event listings to your own weblog.

I immediately went to see if anything was entered for Adelaide- which there was. My second thought was maybe ConnectingUp 2006 should be in there. What do you reckon Doug?

[tags]cu06, adelaide, calendar[/tags]

Blobcast #4 – Horizontal HQ Sessions #1.
Mike (Learndog) & Dave (Lifekludger) chat about stuff they’re thinking about. This session is about using ODEO for the Disability History Project & starting to figure out what they will do at the Connecting Up 2006 conference.

Blobcasts feed.

Update: See comments re audio quality.

[tags]odeo, blobcasts, cu06, ho-hq[/tags]

However it seems its not to be. Technorati does not seem to look at delicious at all. It looks at flicker and picks up tags from there but not delicious.

gada.be does a good job at bringing together tags from multiple sites, but from what I can see it seems that it doesn’t pick up delicious tags either.

What is going on? I cannot see any reason why these tag searching and aggregating sites are not including delicious tags. From what I can see there’s nothing in the delicious API that should prevent it, but I’m certainly no expert on these things either.

I’m not sure exactly what pubsub is up to in terms of their information sources. Feedster seems to find delicious bookmarks, but I’m not sure it looks at tags rather than just crawling terms and searching those – which is not the point – it’s the cross-pollination of sites with tags I’m concerned with.

The concept is meant to be ‘small pieces loosely joined‘ not ‘small pieces in separate piles‘. The focus needs to be on openness and cross platform integration and avoid slipping back into the safety of well-learned habits from years past of building portal empires – albeit using today’s tools.

All I can say is from a users point of view it seems like there is some ‘lovers tiffs’ with delicious.

So it looks as though I’ll have to try a couple of things to work around the issues and get the outcome I’d like to see.

[tags]Technorati, delicious, gada.be, feedster, pubsub, cu06, tags, web2.0, del.icio.us[/tags]

I see two main things happening that what is termed Web2.0 is shaping and in turn, is shaping Web2.0 (culture drives technology, technology enables what the culture desires – see my post here and here for my thoughts on, and links to, Supernova address by Linda Stone as to the interconnectedness that exists there)

First, as an extrapolation to a bit of Vince Holt’s comment on Doug’s post, I think it is not so much about “migrating from” a publishing platform as it is about making the platform more accessible to individuals and that thereby makes it more equitable. It is that change that makes the development of ‘community’ more possible.

Second, it’s about ways of distributing that published content that fit the culture and the age the people exist in – context.

There’s lots of issues and benefits and technology and ideas around those, but I see them as the core.

In generalist terms, things such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, vidcasts fit into the first. RSS, OPML, issues of Attention/Time-shifting fit in the second.

To get to Doug’s specific questions:

1. What’s *really* new on the Web, as opposed to buzzwords and sound bites?

Free, uncomplicated, no-knowledge-required personal publishing and cross-platform distribution.

2. Which tools best embody the new opportunities from your point of view and why?

Blogs, RSS agregators, Podcatchers, Tagging tools (delicious, technorati, feedster etc) on user level.
AJAX, XML/RSS, OPML, Folksonomies, podcasting on tech/behind scenes/user interface level.

3. Who’s doing the best work with the new tools (technically or in terms of social benefit or both)?

Technically- Too big, too many to list.
Social- Too early to call. Lots have huge potential.

4. What’s the bad news? What are the greatest barriers preventing web-based technology from producing social change?

• Same one that existed with Web1.0 and prior – equitable access to the technology.
• Education as to its use and benefits. (Uplifters required)
• Fear of technology and change.
• Fear of real or conceived privacy problems. (Identity issues)
• ‘Walled garden’ thinking and attitudes. (cultivation of ‘openness’ and ‘trust’ required .. will come as stronger connections come in response to desire for focused attention)
• Old habits and past traditions (ref Cluetrain, subversion).

[tags] cu06, web2.0, community[/tags]

The idea is for bloggers to offer a couch/floor/bed or similar for any travelling bloggers to stay at. Crossed my mind could be handy for ConnectingUp2006 Conference.

This would offer anybody who is a blogger coming to CU a place to stay. Also give chance for extended pre/post conference catching up and ‘meshing‘. I might add my couch as an option. Maybe other Adelaide bloggers could follow.

Don’t forget to check the tag for ConnectingUp2006 on Technorati – Connectingup2006 or Delicious – Connectingup2006.

Can I Crash
Technorati
Delicious
Technorati – cu06
Delicious – cu06

You can plug this feed address into your RSS reader : http://feeds.technorati.com/feed/posts/tag/cu06

I’ve also created a category here on my blog for all connectingup2006 posts, so you can choose that from under the categories on my blog web site.

Technorati Tag for cu06 – http://www.technorati.com/tag/cu06
Technorati Tag for ConnetingUp2006 – http://www.technorati.com/tag/connectingup2006
Blob category for ConnetingUp2006 – http://dnwallace.com/blog/category/connectingup2006/

I’ll post more about it as we develop the ideas and ask for some input to direct the specifics of it.

For now, this is a quick post to let you know to stay tuned and as Mike has some issues getting Technorati to do its thing with the connectingup2006 tag, we’ll see how it handles Wordpress.