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  • George Por
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    Boosting Our Collective Intelligence
    I feel grateful to Thomas for inviting me to speak at Reboot 9 because it inspired the juicy collaboration with Martin and Yann about the emerging design of our slot.

    Currently, I see it as an opportunity to open an action-inquiry into how we can augment the Reboot community's collective intelligence. Guys, I hope it's OK that, corresponding to that, I changed the title and subtitle to:

    Boosting Our Collective Intelligence:
    Presencing the future we care for, by liberating the potential of communities of practice and life-work communities

    Yesterday, Yann offered his help with interviewing those who left an "I like it" comment on our talk's page, as an appreciative inquiry and think with us on the best use we can make of them in our slot. If we all do at least one our two interviews with some of our old and new friends at rb9, blog the highlights, and bring them into the post-talk conversations. (That would create another CI-enhancing feedback loop.)

    I'm also thinking of introducing a method of vid-mining, based on my recent discoveries at YouTube. At the end, we could also make a public invitation to a vid-mining expedition as a CI practice. It could be, for example, an expedition for mapping two or three issues that came up on the top of the "My Burning Question" list, submitted by rb9 participants, and ranked collaboratively.

    How would that work? If each participant we can reach online, before the f-t-f, would email us a burning question, then we could spend 10 minute of the show time on collaboratively ranking the list. (That would also provide some information and community self-knowledge, by showing what is on the top of the community's mind, in the moment of ranking.)

    If there's enough energy around those top topics, scouting teams may form to explore them in any way they want, and share the discoveries and any new questions, in the larger Reboot community.

    As Dannie Jost noticed, we're already demonstrating "emergence in action." Let's see how we can amplify that, by making our design deliberations for the "Boosting Our Collective Intelligence" talk visible to the rb9 community, right here.

    What do you guys think?

    // moved here from group "Collective Intelligence" -- http://www.reboot.dk/page/2018/en
    This post was changed on 27 Apr 2009 at 09:39 pm by Matthias Müller-Prove .
    • 19 May 2007, 11:11 am
  • George Por
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    speakers morphing into a team of experience designers?
    Martin, would you agree with me to invite Yann to join you and me on the stage? The picture that I’m having of ourselves is a team of experience designers who use the stage for launching a collaborative, spiraling inquiry into collective intelligence, and are willing to be transformed by the experience.

    Martin and Yann, if you both agree, I’d like to add Yann’s name to ours on the page that introduces our talk. Lemme know.
    This post was modified on 19 May 2007 at 11:25 am.
    • 19 May 2007, 11:24 am
  • George Por
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    Interviewing CI-informed Rebooters
    On 20 May 2007, at 10:55, George Por wrote:

    Dear fellow Rebooters,

    Thank you for visiting and supporting our talk on collective intelligence (CI) at rb9, which is becoming a collaborative experiment introduced by our presentation. Since your visit, our page was substantially updated, and it would be good to know if you like the emerging idea, and would you be willing to be interviewed by one of us on your experience with CI. Looking forward to see you all in Copenhagen!

    Co-evolving with you,

    george
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    George Pór
    Advisor to leaders in international business and government

    PrimaVera Research Fellow in Collective Intelligence at Universiteit van Amsterdam
    http://primavera.feb.uva.nl/index.php?option=com_content&...

    Publisher of the Blog of Collective Intelligence:
    http://www.community-intelligence.com/blogs/public

    "When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness.
    Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other."
    -- Margaret Wheatley
    • 20 May 2007, 12:05 pm
  • George Por
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    reply from Dannie
    From: Dannie Jost <dannie.jost@gmail.com>
    Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 11:53:22 +0200
    To: George Por <George@Community-Intelligence.com>
    Subject: Re: boosting our collective intelligence at Reboot 9

    Hi George,

    Sure, I would love to participate in your collaborative experiment on CI.

    I am on my side rather curious as to how we (we=me+reboot individuals) are going to interface and weave in the various conversations, topics and talks that are within the context of mine, and how to leverage the CI in terms of what is learned.

    Best wishes,

    Dannie

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    This post was modified on 20 May 2007 at 12:08 pm.
    • 20 May 2007, 12:07 pm
  • George Por
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    Skillful means for weaving conversations, topics and talks within one's context.
    Dannie, you wrote:

    I am on my side rather curious as to how we (we=me+reboot individuals) are going to interface and weave in the various conversations, topics and talks that are within the context of mine...
    The same curiosity led me to explore the edges of what AnyMeta (or its current configuration at rb9) can provide for weaving as a core CI practice. It's good to have the "Comment" feature but it's clearly insufficient for allowing any group of participants to grow shared meaning and context. The ideal mix of TOOLS for that would be wiki + blog + forum + all that supported by tagsonomy and taxonomy, and the knowledge gardening METHODS that harmonize their uses.

    Someday, the "tools and methods" capacity to incubate knowledge communities in any context, will be widesspread and I hope to be among those who will presence that future. Unfortunately, Reboot doesn't have that capacity, so we need to do with what we have.

    Here's what I did so far, which can be replicated and improved by other speakers or members who want to organize an online "open space" session or community:

    1. I posted an intentionally longish description on the page introducing our "talk," thus setting our context as clearly as possible, ending it with request for questions to be covered in the talk.

    2. I started a comment stream on the side of the talk's announcement, which attracted feedback, both encouragement and constructive criticism.

    3. I emailed Rebooters I know of as having some affinity with our focus to come and participate in shaping what the "Boosting Our Collective Intelligence" (BOCI) talk is becoming.

    4. I opened this forum topic here, at Xing, for better coordination with fellow experience designers than what Reboot's online interaction tools allow.

    5. I studied the innards of YouTube just enough to understand how we could include in the BOCI show vid-mining as a CI practice relevant to collaborative meaning making

    Next?

    Have a recorded skype chat with Dannie, Martin, and Yann about how communities of inquiry around Dannie's and our talks can be designed as to facilitate the emergence of what she predicted: "several of these talks will actually form an ensemble and carry on an inquiry that will indeed be very within the whole of the community."
    • 20 May 2007, 1:13 pm
  • Dr. Dannie Jost
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    Re: Skillful means for weaving conversations, topics and talks within one's context.
    The thing with teleinteractivity is still rather rudimentary, i f not primitive due to its low bandwidth in terms of human communication possibilities. Voice is one of the best ways to have more direct human interaction, it is also the fastest and most demanding.

    George Por wrote:
    Dannie, you wrote:
    I am on my side rather curious as to how we (we=me+reboot individuals) are going to interface and weave in the various conversations, topics and talks that are within the context of mine...
     
    The same curiosity led me to explore the edges of what AnyMeta (or its current configuration at rb9) can provide for weaving as a core CI practice. It's good to have the "Comment" feature but it's clearly insufficient for allowing any group of participants to grow shared meaning and context. The ideal mix of TOOLS for that would be wiki + blog + forum + all that supported by tagsonomy and taxonomy, and the knowledge gardening METHODS that harmonize their uses.
    i like the thought of "ideal mix of tools" however i know nothing that comes even remotely close.

    Someday, the "tools and methods" capacity to incubate knowledge communities in any context, will be widesspread and I hope to be among those who will presence that future. Unfortunately, Reboot doesn't have that capacity, so we need to do with what we have.
    Here's what I did so far, which can be replicated and improved by other speakers or members who want to organize an online "open space" session or community:
     
    1. I posted an intentionally longish description on the page introducing our "talk," thus setting our context as clearly as possible, ending it with request for questions to be covered in the talk.
     
    2. I started a comment stream on the side of the talk's announcement, which attracted feedback, both encouragement and constructive criticism.
     
    3. I emailed Rebooters I know of as having some affinity with our focus to come and participate in shaping what the "Boosting Our Collective Intelligence" (BOCI) talk is becoming.
     
    4. I opened this forum topic here, at Xing, for better coordination with fellow experience designers than what Reboot's online interaction tools allow.
     
    5. I studied the innards of YouTube just enough to understand how we could include in the BOCI show vid-mining as a CI practice relevant to collaborative meaning making
     
    Next?
     
    Have a recorded skype chat with Dannie, Martin, and Yann about how communities of inquiry around Dannie's and our talks can be designed as to facilitate the emergence of what she predicted: "several of these talks will actually form an ensemble and carry on an inquiry that will indeed be very within the whole of the community."
    the next question is always a good one. like in sailing, it is good to keep the shore in sight or at least know in what direction you want to be taking your boat while zigzaging and swaying at the whims of the wind.

    i just put together the framework of my talk and it takes into account emergence phenomena. there is an hypothesis which i want the inquiry to unravel and that means that i will be listening through a certain filter (paradigm). uhm... i think we do need to talk.
    • 20 May 2007, 2:52 pm
  • George Por
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    Dannie's talk
    the framework of my talk
    would you mind to share it?
    • 20 May 2007, 5:22 pm
  • Dr. Dannie Jost
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    Re: Dannie's talk
    Sharing the framework is no problem. I organized the talk around two central thesis in "Theoretical Man" and will explore those in a question and answer interaction with the public. I still do not know what kind of time slot I will get, I may thus have to adjust, but if I have 40 to 50 minutes, there will be some aspects of action research incorporated. Thus the conclusions are still to be discoved. I will only introduce one new operation in handling paradoxes and designate it by a neologism so as to make what I am trying to communicate and discover a bit more concrete.

    I am not sure if this helps you much. However what works for me is to go into the interaction with a few fundamental questions, and a general idea of what questions need some answers. Given that the audience is composed of a group of bright and authentic people, there is much intelligence and insight that emerges in the discussion. Some of this will be shared within the talk, some will come later when we go back and think about it, and then exchange views again.
    • 21 May 2007, 12:16 pm
  • George Por
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    Harvesting the insights
    Given that the audience is composed of a group of bright and authentic people, there is much intelligence and insight that emerges in the discussion.
    How do you plan to harvest those insights? Will there be recording or visual capturing via mindmap or group graphics?

    Some of this will be shared within the talk, some will come later when we go back and think about it, and then exchange views again.
    Would you be interested to join us, in the second part of our show, and participate in a fishbowl conversation that will be an experiment in making an energy field of CI visible?
    • 22 May 2007, 1:08 pm
  • Dr. Dannie Jost
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    Re: Harvesting the insights
    Given that the audience is composed of a group of bright and authentic people, there is much intelligence and insight that emerges in the discussion.
     
    How do you plan to harvest those insights? Will there be recording or visual capturing via mindmap or group graphics?
          About recording I need to verify that with Thomas. Usually all talks are video recorded. I do not know about the plans for this year, that is one.

    First I will be listening. A written record will be generated either spontaneously or on request. Clearly I have no difficulty dealing with uncertainty. It is my experience that if there is something being created that is within the flow, then people will pick it up, and just about run with it. That is, write it, use it, apply it. Damn difficult to measure.
    A more linear approach is to indeed have somebody capturing it by which ever technical means (videa, writing, mind-map, voice recording, group graphics).

    Some of this will be shared within the talk, some will come later when we go back and think about it, and then exchange views again.
     
    Would you be interested to join us, in the second part of our show, and participate in a fishbowl conversation that will be an experiment in making an energy field of CI visible?
    Sure, I am looking forward to hear a bit more detail as to what you mean by making a CI energy field visible.
    • 22 May 2007, 2:56 pm