The slides from our presentation at the iNetwork Festival of Innovation

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Creating Surprising, simple and social spaces for
public service innovation and flourishing

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Collaborate Out Loud CIC creates
surprising, simple and social spaces
for public service innovation and
flourishing.

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From a seed of an idea between Claire
and Kev in a Northern Quarter Coffee
Shop to a Community Interest Company
in less than a year
We are proud that a simple cuppa was
the catalyst for our movement to start

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In an open and free way where anyone could
follow the journey Where everything that was
developed was open source and free to be used
by anyone Where the group were true
collaborators In a way that successes and
failures where equally welcome opportunities to
learnWhere the process of collaborating in this
new and free way could be observed, tested
and understood By embracing the WorldBlu
principles for freedom based and democratic
organisations
How we work
Serve public services at all levels and places
Works on the challenges that public services are
facing without the constraints of being within the
system Crowdsource the challenges to work on
to serve public services in a different and freer
space Actively encourages challenge, new
thinking and learning from when things don’t
work out as expected Brings together the
unusual suspects, thinking and approaches and
allows the magic to unfold
What we do
Collaborate Out Loud communities are a democratic community of innovative and generous public service
collaborators who work out loud to hack challenges, hatch new thinking, experiment with implementation and
prototype and spread impactful new ideas that will enable the changing public services landscape to get further
faster and embracing the power of new ideas, collaboration and democracy
Collaborate Out Loud’s Community Manifesto

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We exist to serve those delivering,
participating and accessing public
services to:
Challenge thinking, practice and leadership
Connect the unusual suspects across different boundaries
Create capacity and capability for change
Co-curate our collective wisdom and nurture communities to thrive
Co-create novel solutions that break all the rules and make a difference

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surprising
we do the unexpected. This
might be bring in practice and
thinking from unusual places
or helping people to connect
across unusual boundaries.
simple
we know the world is
complicated enough so we
are easy to work with,
straightforward and keep
things as simple as we can,
believing that less can be
more
social
we work out loud, share,
work with others and
connect with existing
agendas and ideas. We lead
with generosity, openness
and trust
Collaborate Out Loud’s
Values:

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Tools underpinning our
thinking

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• Agenda activists: driving the learning
forward - What challenges and opportunities
are worth pursuing together?
• Community keepers: weaving the social
fabric - How do we encourage and hear all
the voices in our community?
• Critical friends: reflecting on the process -
How can we pay attention to how we work
together and continually give ourselves
feedback?
• Social reporters: creating a shared
memory - How should our insights, stories,
and community outputs be captured and
recorded?
• External messengers: communicating with
external audiences - Who (outside the
community) do we need to be talking to and
what should we be telling them?
• Value detectives: making value-creation
visible - What value should we be aiming to
create and how will we know when we have
got it?
• Organizational brokers: connecting with
organizational stakeholders - How does
the community fit into the wider public service
context and contribute to that agenda?
How we ensure we add value?
We do this by modelling what we share with others and
paying attention to these questions

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10 Principles for Healthy Communities
Meg Wheatley
• People support what they create
• People act responsibly when they care
• Conversation is the way people have always thought
• To change the conversation, change who is in it
• Expect leaders to come from anywhere
• Focusing on what is working gives us energy and creativity
• The wisdom resides within us
• Everything is a failure in the middle
• Humans can handle anything as long as we are together
• Generosity, forgiveness and love

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Tools for exploration
and collaboration

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The 5 Habits of Working Out Loud
• Purposeful discovery
• Building relationships
• Leading with generosity
• Making you and your work visible
• A growth mindset

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Communities as a tool
for learning

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We would love to talk to you about how we
can help:
Whether you want to:
• Attend or set up a Collaborate Out
Loud Community where you live,
work, play or study
• Find out we can help you with your
public service challenge wherever you
live through a coffeehouse challenge
• Are interested in funding our work
We have a number of way you can
connect with us
Email: Hello@CollaborateOutLoud.org
Call: 07464 612 568
Twitter: @CollabOutLoud #CollabOutLoud
Web: CollaborateOutLoud.org