podcast - mary-alice arthur on stories

A further podcast on stories with Mary-Alice Arthur in New Zealand.

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Show Notes:
00:00 - Mary-Alice meets storytelling @ Glistening Waters
03:00 - Leader as Storyteller as Megatrend
04:00 - 4 Million Dreams in New Zealand
05:00 - 9/11 as one catalyst
05:30 - Appreciative Inquiry as a response
07:00 - Personal & national dreams
07:30 - Youthconnect
08:00 - "Not just one thing to do"
11:00 - What does a conversation sound like as a drumbeat?
13:00 - The Paua Shell
15:50 - Hoberman Sphere

podcast - slow communities with nancy white

Nancy has been writing & talking a lot about "slow community" recently - video, slides & post here & here. Sadly Ed Mitchell couldn't join us as planned (but we'll nab him again in the future).

One thing we didn't tackle in the podcast was the matter of practical tactics: What should community members & coordinators do?

Answers on a postcard please...

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00:00 - Nancy's conversations about slow communities
03:30 - Matt's fast community anecdote
06:00 - When is slow appropriate?
06:30 - The importance of sustainability
07:15 - Fast is good for social media experiments
08:00 - We need to learn & reflect
10:30 - Rhythm, pausing & athletics
12:15 - Organisational seasons & hurricanes
14:00 - More is not necessarily better
15:30 - Community obesity
17:00 - Networks & comununities
18:00 - Admitting that you have a problem
20:00 - Mindfulness & self-awareness as critical skills
22:30 - Nancy applies the brakes with meditation
24:00 - What do we really need?

podcast - story (2) - tony quinlan, geoff mead & ron donaldson

I joined Tony Quinlan, Geoff Mead (Centre for Narrative Leadership) & Ron Donaldson for a discussion on stories

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00:00 - Tony tells us the one about Joseph Campbell & the IBM manufacturing plant
03:15 - Geoff Mead tells us the one about the conference & the storytellers
05:45 - Ron Donaldson tells us the one about English Nature
07:50 - Stories need space (& time)
09:30 - The simplest story can be the most effective: Geoff & the wet Wednesday in Nottingham
11:45 - Metaphors: Tony with the anthill & the meteor
14:30 - Ron with the twice washing of the sand
19:30 - Tony tells us about the new leader
21:00 - Ron tells us about story circles
22:00 - Geoff tells us about leading as a verb
24:00 - Leadership as contextual and worst practice
25:30 - Stories as triangulation
27:00 - Stories as cultural glue
27:30 - Oxytocin, laughter & bonding
28:45 - Story not necessarily benign
29:00 - Overcoming divisions

podcast - enterprise 2.0 - doug cornelius & stewart mader

Last week I had the pleasure of talking to Doug Cornelius & Stewart Mader about all things Enterprise 2.0 (sadly Stephen Collins had to drop out at the last minute).

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00:00 - Doug visits the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston
02:45 - Many many vendors - they love E2.0!
04:00 - The CIA & Intellipedia
04:30 - Wachovia Bank
06:15 - Stewart goes Web Content 2008, Enterprise 2.0 in Italy & 2008 WikiSym
07:45 - Social Network Analysis of Wikipatterns
08:15 - iPhone location-based social networking service & Stewart's dog's bladder
09:15 - Wikis cease to be a novelty - beyond Wikipedia
10:30 - CIA again
11:45 - My favourite Clay Shirky quote - are we boring yet?
12:30 - Training as a barrier to adoption - wikis are simple
13:20 - Email is not the zenith
14:45 - Wikis get out of the way
15:15 - Wikis as the iPod box
17:00 - What will happen in 2009?
19:00 - The steady curve rather than the tidal wave
21:00 - Wikis as a natural solution for unstructured information
22:10 - Writing the "wikipatterns" book on a wiki
23:30 - It's not about shocking people
24:30 - Awe instead
25:00 - The Bush reference I can't censor
25:15 - Giving & taking
27:45 - Wiki adoption happens at the lunch table
30:45 - The future of traditional blogs inside the enterprise
33:00 - The melting pot of tools
34:00 - The globalisation of everything

podcast preview - salty language

Doug, Stewart & I discuss the finer points of swearing. Not mission critical but a lot of fun and only 2 mins long.

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podcast - zombie marketing - sean howard & katie chatfield

Join Sean Howard, Katie Chatfield & myself for a discussion of: Zombie Marketing. I don't know much about marketing by Sean & Katie do.

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Show Notes:
00:00 - Interesting Moose
01:20 - Zombie Marketing 1: Crazy Rug Sale Marketing
02:40 - Zombie Marketing 2: Late Night Ads In The Early Evening
03:20 - SuperBowl
05:00 - Angelina Jolie's Lips
08:30 - Mobile Advertising
09:00 - Pharmaceutical Mystery Stories
11:00 - Beauty Products & White Coats
12:30 - Science Montage Advertising
13:55 - The Justice League Of Brands
14:20 - Product Placement - Gossip Girl
16:00 - Product Placement - Drugs & Guns
17:00 - Clothing & Branding
20:00 - Anti-Zombie Marketing
21:30 - Not Letting You Love It
23:30 - Showers
26:30 - Phone Spammer Bus Burning Vacation
27:00 - AT&T Outbound Atrocity

podcast - viv mcwaters & geoff brown on facilitation

More podcast goodness with Viv McWaters & Geoff Brown (who have their own podcast channel called Winkipod).

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Show Notes:
00:00 - Introduction - Sick kids, adrenalin junkies & improvisation.
05:00 - Geoff's camping holidays: Being Prepared vs. Having A Plan.
09:30 - Matt bounces up and down on the unscripted trampoline.
11:30 - Facilitation begins long before the event.
16:30 - Facilitation as transformation.
18:20 - What happens "beyond the event horizon"? What are the transitions?
20:00 - "Random Acts of Traction" - Before, During & After.
25:50 - The offer of support.
29:00 - Facilitators as Collective Memory.

podcast - madelyn blair & shawn callahan on storywork

I had the pleasure of discussing storywork with Madelyn Blair & Shawn Callahan this morning. Madelyn & Shawn set up the Ning Worldwide Story Work group and Madelyn is also involved with the Golden Fleece group. Enjoy!

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Show Notes:
00:00 - Introductions: Madelyn & Shawn's first introduction to storywork.
04:00 - Stories that stick in your mind: Madelyn's story of the Swedish ambassador, the mosque & the stone.
06:00 - Shawn distinguishes between storylistening & storytelling.
08:30 - "Storytelling" as a bit overwhelming vs things that you do everyday.
11:15 - The use of objects in storytelling - Madelyn applies this to mission statements.
13:00 - The importance of context & duckus duckus.
16:00 - Getting different groups to talk.
18:10 - Scientific papers as mystery stories.

podcast - tim noonan on accessibility

Yesterday I had the pleasure of discussing accessibility, technology and the future with Tim Noonan (more on him here and here). The result is an intriguing podcast.

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Show Notes:
00:00 - Tim tells us about his first experiences with technology via a braille machine.
02:20 - Tim reduces the fear factor for people.
03:40 - The Christmas Card and the liberating privacy of email.
06:00 - The double-edged sword of technology.
06:50 - The visual nature of current technology.
08:40 - The return of audio via podcasts & mobile devices.
11:20 - Technology should be transparent & smart - the barriers must be removed!
14:00 - Accessibility: It's not about desexying stuff.
16:30 - How do we make technology more inclusive to more people? Universal design.
19:00 - Separating the information from the presentation.
19:40 - Elevators, ramps, wheelchairs, strollers. Accessibility benefits everyone!
22:10 - Twitter as an example of accessible design.

podcast - jason ryan & social software in government

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Jason Ryan of the New Zealand State Services Commission on the use of social software by governments (esp. the kiwis) and very enlightening it was too.

Download the mp3 here (24:38, 5.6 Mb)

Show Notes
00:00 - Jason introduces himself.
01:00 - Jason begins blogging himself. NZ Aid and the Retirement Commission experiment with blogs.
02:45 - Social software is not the solution to every problem.
04:00 - Should governments use hosted services?
05:20 - Principles for government use of social software. Why is sovereignty important?
06:38 - Social marketing, Bebo & a sense of optimism.
07:30 - You don't want the government to be your dad dancing at a party.
08:30 - Two contrasting cases: Police Act Review wiki vs. Safe As forum.
14:40 - Other examples from around the world.
18:00 - What's the future for social software in government?
20:00 - The risks of Facebook for employees and what we should do about it.
23:00 - What do you think?

podcast - luis/patrick/alex - email detox (3): tools or solutions?

Download the final part of the email detox podcast.

• 00:00 - Alex agrees with Luis on email politics.
• 01:20 - Humans as political animals - in public or in private?
• 03:00 - Should we be selling tools or solutions?
• 06:00 - Applying social software to business problems.
• 08:00 - The email detox workout video.
• 10: 00 - Wrap up & next steps.

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podcast - luis/patrick/alex - email detox (2): infrastructure & politics

Following on from the last post.

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• 00:00 - Patrick raises the infrastructure question.
• 03:00 - Luis brings up wikis.
• 04:10 - Luis talks about discussing the detox with his team.
• 07:55 - The laziness issue.
• 09:00 - Do we love email?
• 10:00 - Alex mentions email overload.
• 11:00 - Generational issues.
• 13:00 - Patrick raises the politics question.
• 15:00 - Luis busts the whole thing wide open.

podcast - luis/patrick/alex - email detox (1)

I had the pleasure of conversing with Luis, Patrick & Alex about Luis's email detox programme. Here is the first part (of three) for your listening pleasure.

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• 01:00 - Luis describes his email detox moment in 2007.
• 03:10 - Luis challenges his email correspondents within IBM.
• 06:10 - How do you bring people round to the post-email world?
• 11:00 - Where is email appropriate?
• 13:00 - Instant messaging & social networking.

podcast - puneet gupta - connectbeam

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of talking to Puneet Gupta, CEO of Connectbeam, a US social search company. Conntectbeam get a mention in the collaborative bookmarking presentation.

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• 00:45 - Introduction: Connectbeam = del.icio.us + LinkedIn for the enterprise.
• 03:25 - How does Connectbeam actually work?
• 05:20 - Which organisations are using Connectbeam?
• 06:45 - Who is using the tech inside these organisations?
• 08:00 - The knotty question of ROI.
• 10:45 - The future of Enterprise 2.0 - Connectbeam as the Heart of Collective Intelligence.
• 13:45 - I attempt to lighten the conversation & fail miserably but an interesting comment on tag clouds & cultures emerges from the wreckage.

podcast - nancy white & ed mitchell - blended facilitation

I had a blast recording this session with Nancy White & Ed Mitchell on "Blended Facilitation". It's a bit on the long side but I am loathe to cut it. We'll probably do another one and Mr Mitchell has requested "more structure".

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• 00:50 - Ed talks about doing a mix of online & offline facilitation with the Media Sandbox.
• 04:00 - Nancy talks about 4 types of blending: Modalities (sight, sound, touch); Online/Offline; Individuals/Communities; Methods.
• 06:00 - Nancy discusses Seeds of Compassion.
• 09:50 - Matt mentions "extending the event horizon" & multi-modal poetry.
• 13:00 - Online and/or Offline?
• 15:30 - Ed's door intrusion leads to a discussion of Second Life.
• 19:20 - Different strokes (or tools) or different folks - provided there are overlapping experience.
• 22:30 - The thorny question of Generations (Y, X, Boomer) - going into broader diversity issues (e.g. participants from Africa with lo-bandwidth).
• 26:50 - Mindfulness, feedback & signals - the ethics of sharing community data.
• 30:10 - Facilitation + Manipulation = Facipulation.
• 34:00 - The public, the private & ambient exposure. Where are the boundaries?
  
• 38:50 - We hit the knotty question of identity
• 39:40 - We lay into the culture of expertise.
• 41:00 - I think we've all learnt a valuable lesson here, haven't we?
  

(It sounds like I'm cutting in & predicting what Ed & Nancy are saying but that's an artifact of the recording process, mostly - just shift my words back 10 seconds compared to Nancy & Ed)

podcast - james dellow - enterprise rss action day

Today I interviewed James Dellow about the Enterprise RSS Day of Action.

Download the podcast here (8Mb, 32:54)

• 2:00 - Andrew McAfee & SLATES - Enterprise 2.0 is about more than just wikis.
• 3:05 - Grey Areas - when social software isn't "social".
• 5:30 - What is RSS? - Really Simple Syndication
• 9:50 - So what about Enterprise RSS?
• 11:40 - What are the benefits of Enterprise RSS? (the elevator pitch is longer than 30 seconds)
  
• 14:30 - How will it impact the behaviour of users? It's all about AWARENESS...
• 15:40 - How does it impact internal communications? Measurement & persistence...
  
• 19:45 - The 10 things that James wants from Enterprise RSS.
• 21:50 - The top 3 challenges to Enterprise RSS: Content / Technologists / Users.
• 23:35 - How to get started with Enterprise RSS.
• 25:50 - Vendors: Attensa & Newsgator.
• 28:20 - Pervasive RSS - Feeds Everywhere.
• 29:35 - Enterprise RSS Action Day.

Nice one James!

touch podcast

Johnnie, Patrick & Mark join forces for a podcast on touch. Lovely stuff - esp. the Dad's Army references.

More shadows

Johnnie has posted up the second part of Annette, himself & me discussing shadows. Now you have the only 2 mp3's you need ever listen to again!!!