Reflections

=REFLECTIONS=

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1. May 20, 2007 Jenny Ambrozek The Experience So Far
//I just added this Reflections page inspired by guilt that I haven't been back in touch with Jo Murray who requested the article but realizing the deadline is looming. I hope Jo hasn't given up on us but what an instructive experience this has been so far. Inspiration was looking at a Facebook "Wall" yesterday. Their functionality would no doubt make this easier. Here are my reflections so far://

//**i. Tools can get in the way.** I am comfortable using a wiki and progress stalled during discussions with Jo and her technology colleague about using blogs that wasn't what I had in mind. Especially interesting in light of challenging blog exchanges with Euan Semple following his high profile blog post about best approach to Enterprise 2.0 adoption being to get out of the way.//

//**ii. Kiki's access to the latest research through her Columbia PhD program is a gift.**

I'm thankful for connections to Pete Kaminski SocialText and Simon Wardley for awareness of the importance and process.
 * iii. Wiki gardening is both art and essential.**


 * iv. Wiki writing allowing writing through emergence,** easily starting comments then building on is creative although this platform doesn't allow functionality that I would expect e.g. in Typepad our blogging platform indenting quotes is one clikc. Here can't figure how to do that. For example I hadn't considered a REFLECTIONS section when first planning this article writing experiment. Yesterday though it occurred to me that perhaps a valuable piece of the final article would be tracking the process used and lessons learnt in case others find it interesting and want to use in their work.

Signing off wondering who will be number 2. Inserting the number to encourage somebody else.//

2. June 24, 2007 Back at the Keyboard: Supernova Learning
We're very much on article countdown now with the deadline looming.

Last week I was in Silicon Valley meeting with a startup with the opportunity Wednesday to attend the Wharton West Challenge Day Supernova 2007 Conference program. http://www.supernova2007.com/go/workshops

Fascinating being on the U.S. west coast and seeing the world through a technology trends lens. This is a reminder to find my notes from the Dave Weinberger Doc Searls session that opened the day. Doc talked about brands that succeed being those where you "learn". At a breakfast conversation Friday he described his interest in geology and how there is a project, I need to search that is documenting Greenland climate change using photos travellers are taking from planes flying over.

Friday morning I managed to attend the John Hagel hosted session with Nick Carr and Chris Meyer as provocateurs. Reminder to find notes from that session and look for the gems.

Other interesting conversation was with Tish? somebody who just participated in a citizen journalism experiment to write a series of articles for Wired Magazine. Our discussion focused on "managing participation" that echoes one of my early learnings here. //~ Jenny Ambrozek//

//**3.** July 4 holiday greetings.//
(Originally posted to front page by JA)

Deliighted to log on today and see //Jack Vinson had tended the laboratory working// //example// [|//he'd blogged about//]//:// and discover Sue Mandley's experience using a SharePoint space in TAFE, Australia. ( See under point 3.)

Lived experiences are valued here so MORE please.
While I last updated this July 2 we've been working behind the scenes in email exchanges with colleagues and among ourselves.

~ Jenny Ambrozek

4. Update July 9, 2007 New York Time
Today I'm favouring New York time as our Australian July 9 deadline has already passed! Thank you Jo Murray for being understanding as I confront 7,000 words we (Kiki, Victoria and I), generated individually and collaboratively this past weekend. A key learning about "learning through connected intelligence" through our wiki experiment, (and the activity reports and page change dates tell the story), is about activity that is important, but invisible, as it happens outside this workspace. And no doubt allowing time away for REFLECTION, a component of Kki's doctoral dissertation to which we've paid attention, is key.

The latest version of our article abstract is posted. I'm also delighted to have Shawn Callahan appear. We know "story telling" and "learning through connected intelligence" are inseparable. Unfortunately we haven't had time to do justice to this topic.

Dave Hawthorne has checked in from the road and with classic down-to-earthness submited: "all learning is through connected intelligence". What more do we need to say?

Back to article synthesizing.

~ //Jenny Ambrozek//

Update August 7, 2007
Jeffrey Keefer's //recent change reminded me we were a little of out of date here.//

//The article version posted below is 7. Version 10 is now with Knowledge Tree editor Jo Murray with special thanks to Patti Anklam and Robert Laubacher for end comments that helped it close. Patti drew my attention to the importance of trust in openness as a requirement for connected intelligence to work. Rob encouraged us to revisit our learning about connected intelligence from the wiki experiment in closing the piece. I'm the first to understand that knowing what we know now our article would be very different but we've been reminded of how knowledge iterates through sharing. Hopefully we've gathered some nuggets.// //We'll be revisiting the wiki as the article is published and the conversation unfolds. If there are particular aspects of the topic we should be focusing on, please don't hesitate to post suggestions here. Meantime we're deeply appreciative of the assistance received for our article writing experiment. Please see the Acknowledgements// //page for the list.

~ Jenny Ambrozek//

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