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Sheri Herndon <sheri@speakeasy.org> Apr 17 07:29PM -0700 ^


 
Have people been following this new platform for collaboration
conversation?
 
It's moving fast…and it's global, collaborative, creative, inspired
by the same values or closely aligned values that people on this list
have.
 
I'm utterly inspired :)
 
http://emergentbydesign.com/2010/04/17/junto-is-born/
 
In case you haven’t been following along, Junto is a concept we’ve
been discussing for a global communications and collaboration
platform. It starts with a simple interface, combining video chat with
a text box and a twitter backchannel, all streaming in public, real-
time. It could be used for any number of projects or goals –
organizations could use it for open innovation or to show how they are
taking social responsibility in the world, groups with similar
initaitives could use it for huge group discussions and meetings in
order to accelerate the process of organizing and taking projects from
idea to action, and individuals could use it to engage in dialogue and
create shared meaning and shared understanding across geographic and
cultural barriers. For more context, check out the original post here.
 
The longer term goal is to build in a family of tools and
functionality that will aid in thinking and development, such as:
 
– live collaborative whiteboard
– concept mapping, possibly linked with twitter in order to
automatically send links to specific areas of a project
– Junto video sessions to be time-coded and tagged for easy search and
later reference
– emotional/intuitive symbol language to express feelings around ideas
and concepts
– data visualization, heat-mapping and sounds linked to information to
quickly visually & auditorily “get” a piece of information
– tools for checking cognitive biases around information
 
There are other high-level concepts floating out there, but I think
these are the ones that are immediately being looked at. While these
aspects are being explored, a trust-based profile structure is being
created, which is intended for people to be able to express inherent
strengths, values, skills, social connections, and where they can
contribute within a process, so that we have the opportunity to reach
out to one another, make a connection, and team up to get things done!
 
And beyond that, it’s for us to evolve as people. If you’ve followed
along here over the months, I talk about getting back to the
fundamentals of who we really are, about deep values, interconnection,
social learning, building intelligence, and raising consciousness. It
works for some by sitting in meditation alone on a mountaintop, but I
think it also happens when we make connections with people who
unexplainably resonate on our frequencies and pull us forward. It
doesn’t replace real life interaction – but the Web sure does allow us
to make beautiful music together.
 
original blog post by Venessa: http://emergentbydesign.com/2010/03/22/junto-discussing-ideas-worth-spreading/
 
 
 
love,
 
Sheri
 
 
Sheri Herndon, M.A.
Social Architect & Designer:
Innovation, Collaboration, Social Networks
sheri@speakeasy.org
206.371.4874
www.twitter.com/sheriherndon
 
 
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model
obsolete.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller