Presentation about networking and the current tyranny of growth and quantity over quality in networks. Outline of the importance of considering personalities, relevant facilitation and some future methods to balance it

1. Hello 2000…..………2002…………..2004……………..2006……..…..2007…… 2008.. I am a professional network and community advisor and multi-domain ‘facilitator’. In other words, I help groups of people do the things that they want and/or need to do.

5. What do we think networking is? And a definition from the facilitator Expanding one's social network or sphere of influence by initiating mutually advantageous new relationships with people. One’s ability to make contact with others in obtaining research, information, and services about career fields, organizations, or job industries in order to enhance career goals. (Tamara Gittelson) From a network networking event, London Voluntary Services Council, Cascade meeting, 14/02/08

6. A quick timeline Past Present Future

10. Present: humans: social everything? What happened to just doing a good job?

11. Present: humans: social everything?

12. Present: humans: social everything? Participatory Collaborative Co-creation Knowledge networking Speed networking Open Space Social this that and the other… Un-everything Network experts Know everyone …

13. Present: humans: social everything? Emotional Particular Peculiar Different Spiritual Individual Shy Temperamental Happy Sad Contextual … ? “… We judge ourselves by what we think we can do. Others judge us by what we have done… (Australian Trucker mag my friend Tim found for me)

14. What did we do on KnowledgeBoard? Facilities to attract: Published content Commenting Q & A Conversations Facilitated environment Publishing articles and encouraging discussion Hosting interest groups and encouraging discussion Sending newsletters and encouraging discussion Measuring … the discussion Social structures to build trust: Co-creation of shared space Events (physical and virtual) Realise-able results from input … Touch points along the relationship Workshops at conferences and our own conferences 3 x Community books Research partnerships and papers

15. One thing learnt from KnowledgeBoard Good lord we’re all different… Not everyone wants to discuss stuff publicly.. What does that mean? For whom? How can we plan for that in the future? How can we measure that?

16. The four Ps Public Personal Private Political

17. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality questionnaire designed to identify certain psychological differences according to the typological theories of Carl Gustav Jung as published in his 1921 book Psychological Types… While many academic psychologists have criticized the indicator in research literature, claiming that it "lacks convincing validity data… proponents and sellers of the test cite unblinded anecdotal predictions of individual behavior… In a similar way to left- or right-handedness, the principle is that individuals also find certain ways of thinking and acting easier than others. The MBTI endeavours to sort some of these psychological opposites into four opposite pairs, or dichotomies, with a resulting 16 possible combinations. None of these combinations is 'better' or 'worse',… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator Humans and personalities

19. Not so implicit messages in technology

20. Not so implicit messages in technology

21. Not so implicit messages in technology

22. Not so implicit messages in technology

23. Not so implicit messages in technology

24. Not so implicit messages in technology

25. Personalities being sold to In response to the intel ad: “ More Computing Power Means More You” “… Would I really want to have be more me? A glance at my personality spectrum reveals swathes of my selfhood where there’s already quite enough, thank you – and some aspects, such as the egotism, suspicion, self-pity, pointless regret and maundering envy, that might do with toning down. Would anyone else want to have more me? I suspect my wife would declare ‘Enough husband’…” (Enough, John Naish) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Enough-John-Naish/dp/0340935901/

26. Not so implicit messages in technology

27. Not so implicit messages in technology… http://thayer18.livejournal.com/10610.html “… Twitter is not a popularity contest. Step away from your ego... Last night I cut down the amount of people I follow. I do this about once a month, after adding people throughout the month. It's something I've always done, and interestingly, every time I do it - it's something that has always caused some grumpiness from a few of those who I stop following… … If I follow over 80, in particular when I get close to 100, I find it very hard to track my real life close friends - you know, the ones I know personally, go drinking with etc. So I chop back a bit…”

28. And a few recent news items…

30. And a glimpse into the future… http://www.amazon.co.uk/Enough-John-Naish/dp/0340935901/ http://www.wethinkthebook.net/home.aspx

31. Tools: Organisational recognition http://emekaeme.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/visions-of-km-2-another-draft-of-the-paper/

32. Tools: Engagement planning Berry, J, from work on The Open Innovation Exchange, 2007 http://www.innovationexchange.net/

33. Tools: Engagement planning (Wilcox, D, 2006) http://www.annfacil.com

34. Tools: Socio-technical mapping http://www.personalinfocloud.com/2008/01/the-elements-in.html http://www.nform.ca/publications/social-software-building-block

35. Organisations and ideas: quote “… Ideas do not live in the minds of individuals but through a constant circulation as gifts. In the century to come well being will come to depend less on what we own and consume and more on what we can share with others and create together, especially as consumption becomes increasingly constrained by environmental concerns that mean we have to live more within collectively binding limits…” http://www.charlesleadbeater.net/cms/xstandard/ChapterOne.pdf

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