Collecting and sharing: your #Gathering11 posts, tweets, pics and more

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Dear Gathering ’11 friends,

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were a collaborative crowdsourced web 2.0 Gathering ’11 scrapbook we can all contribute to?

Fear not, plans are underway! It will be an easy and fun reference for everything that is Gathering ’11 including preparations, the event itself, reflections, effects, and next steps.

The content will be pulled from the comment section of this blog post.

*** Please make a contribution by mid-September in order to be SURE to be included. ***

Share any and all of the following (directly, with a link, or with embed code):

  • Reflections large and small, notes, lessons learned, connections made – basically, text of any kind
  • Pictures & artwork
  • Videos & audio recordings
  • Anything else you can think of!

The process for creating this resource is coming together in real-time. This blog post is being updated as that process is defined and as the project moves forward. For example, it will likely be helpful to tag related online content with “Gathering11″ (please do, along with any other tags that come to mind). And it may also be helpful to propose additional tags to help with the sorting process. Don’t hesitate to use the comment section to ask questions or share suggestions about those or any other aspect of this project.

On behalf of everyone who will learn from your contributions (and that’s a whole lot of people), thank you. There’s a great deal of listening and learning ahead, so let the collecting continue!

* If you’d like to join the team putting this together, go to http://bit.ly/Gatherings11, reach the “How to use this document” section, and add your name to the “Anthology Team” section.
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A summary of comments received to date:

Adam Axon, Possibilities. Eyes. Wide. Open.

Benny Callaghan, 8 (Non-War) Metaphors for Building a Better Future

Beth Worrall, Gathering thoughts about Gathering11

Daryl Cook, Podcast series interviewing Gathering ’11 participants including Viv McWaters, Marigo Raftopoulos, Helen Mitchell, Ralf Lippold, David Hood, Matt Cooperrider, David Week, and more

Gavin Heaton, Questions for a Better Future at #gathering11

Jana Inuit, Where I became we in togetherness

Kate Carruthers, Some thoughts on making change: it starts with us #gathering11

Michel Bauwens, Everything Open and Free (prezi); Everything Open and Free (mindmeister)

Nick Potter, Leading on the edges from our centres

Ralf Lippold, Diamanten blühen erst mit der Fassung auf

Ralf Lippold, Reflection on #Gathering11

Richard Harmer, Fostering a sense of community at Gathering ’11

Simon Waller, What is the Power of Not Knowing?

Ulrike Reinhard, From Gathering11 to a worldwide WE?

Viv McWaters, The Centre of Attention

 

 

57 thoughts on “Collecting and sharing: your #Gathering11 posts, tweets, pics and more”

  1. Hi there here back in Dresden the vibes of gathering11 are still going wild. I’d like to share my thoughts, however can’t enter the Google doc – if there is anyone around who has experience on how to cope with that problem (partly caused by several accounts at Google) I really appreciate it very much :-) Cheers, Ralf

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    • Ralf, it would be great if you could share your thoughts here. The Google Doc is more of a planning tool for people who want to be part of the dedicated project team. (We’d love you as part of that too, of course :)

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  13. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend Gathering11, but I’ve been following with great interest.

    I want to do some more podcasting, and was thinking that this might be the perfect opportunity. I’d like to interview some of the awesome folks who attended and ask them about their experiences; record it and publish them here.  It’d be a great resource for the almanac, as well a way of continuing the great conversation.

    Anyone up for it?

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  14. Viv McWaters (@vivmcw:disqus) just tweeted: Some thoughts are now floating to the surface from #Gathering11 http://bit.ly/kATqNZ cc @jhagel @heathr

    An excerpt from that (great!) post:

    “Which brings me back to the two ideas that really resonated at Gathering11 in relation to this. John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull,
    talked about being on the edge and the power of pulling (attracting)
    people towards you by doing what you believe in and being who you are,
    rather than pushing against the existing models and ways of doing stuff
    that you’d like to change or influence. He said (I’m paraphrasing) that
    chipping away at the core is hard work, and rarely has much impact. It’s
    easier, and more effective to attract people away from the core towards
    new ideas and approaches. He said the most interesting stuff is
    happening on the edges. It’s fair to say that most of the people at
    Gathering11 were edge people, some doing extraordinary work, most, I’d
    guess, dissatisfied with the status quo.

    “The other huge influence for me was Heather Gold.
    It’s only on reflection that I can see that she epitomises what John
    Hagel is saying about using the Power of Pull – how small moves, smartly
    made, can set big things in motion – with her approach to subverting
    (my word) the one-to-many model of presenting. Heather turns up at
    events, conferences and who knows where else, grabs the microphone, and
    instead of doing what is expected, but without being so different that
    it scares people, completely upends the one-to-many approach by actually
    doing it differently. She uses a techniques that she calls tummeling, or UnPresenting.
    Basically, it’s all about using the people in the room, surfacing what
    they know by having a conversations with them, weaving connections,
    reincorporation and seamlessly moving from a one-to-many approach to a
    distributed approach. It’s artful, it’s engaging, it requires guts and
    skill and having a 10-year career as a stand-up comic certainly helps.
    I’m really sorry I missed Heather’s workshop on tummeling. I’ve had a
    small crack at it and am itching to do more. I have a lot to learn.

    In summary, I am still frustrated at the
    apparent acceptance of crap meetings and conferences, AND I’m going to
    continue exploring distrubuted ways of getting the most out of a group
    of people when they are in a room together. AND I’m going to remember
    the power of pull AND look for any opportunities I can to try
    tummelling. You’ve been warned.”

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  15. I have just put up a blog post on the power of not knowing. All credit goes to #gathering11 participants http://www.tomorrowatwork.com.au/2011/06/what-is-the-power-of-not-knowing/

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    • Simon, this is such great news. I remember hearing about your #dunno campaign at the Hub on Gathering ’11′s ‘Day 3′. Love seeing it take off so thoughtfully. #dunno is much catchier than #lookslikeastatementfeelslikeaquestion :)

      Thanks so much for posting the link here — will be for sure scooped up into the almanac-anthology project!

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  16. Dear all, It has been a terrific experience down in Melbourne. I’d like to contribute, however the document (via link above) does not show up on my google account. I know that there are some issues if you have multiple Google accounts (I have a gmail and and google apps one) – yet no clue to overcome that. BTW issue applies to ongoing action research on open knowledge sharing and increasing, where I can’t even open my own created document on Google docs).

    I appreciate so much the help of the crowd to overcome this minor constraint.

    Thanks so much and best regards from Dresden
    Ralf

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    • So sorry to hear about the access glitches. Sharing the document with you directly *should* do the trick. Please send your gmail address to me at christine@cdegger.com, or I’m following you on Twitter so a DM is good, too (@cdegger). Thank you for continuing to find a way to make this work!

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  20. This blog post was written by Benny Callaghan before Gathering ’11. I’m adding it here because it beautifully captures the attention he brought to the power of metaphors during the event (specifically during an Open Space session on Day 2). See particularly the comment from David Week for more context on why the “war metaphor” is so pervasive in current culture:

    8 (non-War) Metaphors for building a better future

    http://sseaustralia.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/8-non-war-metaphors-for-building-a-better-future/

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