MartinCleaver of Blended Perspectives Inc. runs a monthly get-together in Toronto, typically on the Second Tuesday of each month, to discuss Wikis.
Technology is incidental to the effect: *uses* are core: impacts on culture, innovation, and what-a-wiki-can-do-for-you are all fair game.
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Each month we seek an anchor talk, with suggestions of who to lead coming from participants. Martin runs a round table of discussion to ensure everyone gets their question and opinion heard.
We proudly run this event is as an Open Space. That is, the topics of conversation are determined by who shows up. Every participant or would be participant is responsible for nudging the event towards what they want. This can be: wino kredyt mieszkaniowy sprzedam mieszkanie sprzedam bilet
- Stating what you are looking for
- Referring Martin to a speaker
- Offering to speak
- Inviting others to formulate a topic of conversation.
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Following http://wikisym.org/ws2007/ in Montreal on the 21-23 Oct, we will bring back news from the event. Also, we will create a plan for Toronto Wiki Tuesdays for the next 6 months.
No events Aug, Sept, Nov 2007
All are invited, from the wiki-curious, wiki-strategist, wiki-facilitator, wiki-technologist through to the raging all-singing wiki-evanglist.
- We'll likely compare some wiki-technologies (e.g. TWiki, Confluence, Socialtext, TikiWiki) and talk about what really makes a difference for effective wiki-adoption.
Agenda to be decided. Add your input here. We have upstairs at Rowers.
We'll anchor the evening's round table on an update from RoCoCo:
-1- Recent Changes Camp in Montreal.
Also:
-2- the "state of the industry"
-3- overview of common steps companies go through to become wiki enabled
Peter Thoeny, founder of TWiki.org will visiting Toronto tomorrow, so we're having a get-together tomorrow evening to welcome him back again.
HiMY SYeD of Torontopedia! will be present seeking input on improving the Toronto city wiki.
April 2007 Meeting?
I'd like to present Torontopedia! at the next WikiTuesday, and also invite as many Torontopedians to that WikiTuesday, as our official launch.
Thanks, ~ HiMY SYeD ~
Tonight at Toronto Wiki Tuesday we will begin with a quick talk about IBM's QEDWiki, starting with a short video clip. We'll question how IBM have extended the concept of a wiki as a mashup of content to wiki as a mashup of data & content and how this relates to their other product suites. We'll then look at this from our Wikinomics lens, talk about flexibility for processes and how it scales into a strategy of agility for the firm, rounding out with some comments of how wikis (and Web 2.0) addresses major knowledge management notions such as Social Capital and Relationship Capital in the Enterprise 2.0 context.
Then it's open question and an opportunity to share-your stories, with plenty of opportunity for break out to socialize, and constant joking and our usual merriment.
Throughout we'll take a fun few minutes to take video clips toward a YouTube advertisement, which, all things going well, I'll stitch together to help promote our April meeting.
- Regards - Martin
Topic for Feb: Peer Production in the Workplace (pages 257-263 of WikiNomics: covering Teams, Time Allocation, Decision Making, Resource Allocation & Corporate Communication)
People who attended on Tuesday, 9th Jan, 2007
Approx. 12 people. Please add your name.''
Topic of the night: Peer Production
"Peer Production works best when at least three conditions are present:
1 The object of production is information or culture, which keeps the cost of participation low from contributors
2 Tasks can be chunked out into bite-sized pieces that individuals can contribute in small increments and independently of other producers (i.e. entries in an encyclopedia or components of a software program). This makes their overall investment of time and energy minimal in relation to the benefits they receive in return.
3. The costs of integrating those pieces into a finished end product, including leadership and quality-control mechanisms, must be low" -- WikiNomics, page 70
Wikipedia entry
Questions:
1. We'll explore the nature of peer production, and give some examples.
1. We'll ask the audience to hypothesise for the organisation they work for or one in their lives (e.g. a charity):
- To what extent is peer-production already being used? Which people and what processes are involved? Where does this deliver advantages over a single person doing and coordinating a job? Does this "production process" span far-flung departments, customers, suppliers, competitors and other companies that provide services that "complement"? (If you can't think of any, are "open source" methods or technologies used? They are probably lurking!)
- Think of 1 high-level process in your organisation, and 2 activities you are involved in, where could peer production can be used. What broad systemic challenges (e.g. market, hr, technical) exist that your organisation faces and how might peer production alter the complexity of those challenges?
- What barriers exist to the adoption of Peer Production? e.g. awareness, education, business case, cultural, policy, technical
- Which decision makers in your firm would need to be involved? Are some particularly open to the cultural shifts that might be needed? What legitimate concerns might be voiced about the use of peer production?
By the end of the night we will leave you with illustrations of how others are using these techniques and ideas of where they might best apply in your firm, together with an action plan of how you can bring into reality what otherwise might be a pipedream.
Cheers, Martin.
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*Speakers wanted*
If you have a story you would like to tell, whether that is for 5, 15 or 30 mins, do please leave your name here.
I'm keen to arrange for speakers to make this more than the casual chats we have had in the past, and I need some help to arrange speakers. Basically I'm looking to arrange 2-3 company insiders to talk. These could be people who have used a wiki to implement organisational change. The result could have been intentional or emergent, but I'd like to see if we can appreciate where this has actually happened in Canada.
If you have a story you would like to tell, whether that is for 5, 15 or 30 mins, do please leave your name here, email or call me on 416-786-6752.
Meeting on Tuesday September 12th, 2006
People Who Want to attend on Tuesday August 1st, 2006
- Chris Herbert (cherbert15@gmail.com)
Not attending:
People Who Attended on Wednesday July 12th, 2006
( http://upcoming.org/event/88540/ )
People Who Attended on Tuesday June 6th, 2006
( http://upcoming.org/event/75506 )
People Who Attended on Tuesday May 2nd, 2006
( http://upcoming.org/event/73785 )
- Martin Cleaver
- Sunir Shah
- Bryce Johnson
- Matthew Burpee
- RohanJayasekera
- David Crow
- Brian Ivanovick
- Hans Wobbe
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