Seattle, Washington. This morning’s keynote was a four person panel presentation from the team that created the Boeing Operations Centre, which is the primary face of Boeing’s interaction with their customers, helping them with maintenance and servicing issues. The presentation was given by Peter Weertman, Bruce Rund, Bob Wiebe and Darren Macer. This post is a collaborative harvest of that keynote by myself, Tenneson Woolf and Teresa Posakony. One thing to notice about people that work at Boeing is that they almost always talk about their relationship to planes dating back to being kids, they take great pride in their …
Photo by Jeremy I was out surfing this week… Integral strategies – a site in evolution Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men: “Does he finish what he starts? Geniuses almost never do.” Ouch. The new basis of power suits? Shirts that generate electricity. Chaos and fractals – a collection of links Walkabout as pedagogy – Aboriginal unschooling Peer to peer governance RSS feeds explained (thanks Viv) Also from Viv…Pangea Day, a day for viewing the world through it’s own eyes. Richard Oliver on Kairos and Kronos pointe to this article on the same (and his lovely manifesto on Purposive Drift) …
William van den Ende posted this really nice diagram that helps to think about the relationship between websites, users, conferences and content. I’m working with a number of clients at the moment who are struggling to marry their work to the web, and especially to the social web. THey are all not-for-profit organizations (or for-benefit, as I have started saying). This diagram is very helpful, if for no other reason than it gives us a context in which to offer specific conversations.
I sat down this morning with my little pot of Dilmah tea to read friends’ blogs. This beats curling up with the Sunday New York Times or some other largely useless aggregation of pulp fibre. Much better to get the news of the day from those who are working on things and who need help or have discovered useful insights for the rest of us. And so, sitting before the woodstove with a pot of tea and a laptop is a lovely way to begin a Sunday morning. And this morning my friend Jon Husband sends me in a couple …
Today I ran into an interesting situation. I was in a conversation about a community process I have been designing and a potential participant took me aside and said that she would love to participate but that one of the people who had already agreed to also participate had committed some serous abuse against her partner. She wondered how I would do to resolve the situation. That was a good one, a little bit out of the blue and somewhat unexpected. I thought for a moment and then, putting my best collaborative principles into practice said “I …