Our presentation from the Social Age Safari

2. @CollabOutLoud #CollabOutLoud

6. Julian Stodd – The Social Leadership Handbook

7. COLLABORATING OUT LOUD IS…..
A democratic tribe 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

9. COLLABORATING OUT LOUD
WORKS….
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 learn
Where 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

10. COLLABORATING OUT LOUD:
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

11. REFLECTIONS FOR BECCI AND GILL

12. The 7 Roles of
Effective
Communities
How we will ensure we
add value to public
services
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?
Based on Etienne Wenger’s
roles for effective communities
of practice

14. @CollabOutLoud
#CollabOutLoud

15. Experimenting with these ideas

16. It takes hard work to build a community
Slowing down to speed up
Just saying it’s a democratic community doesn’t make
it one

17. Collaboration is emotional

18. Know your purpose
Work hard not to get in the way
Self awareness is essential

19. Collaborating
Out Loud tribe
Approaches,
tools and
thinking from
anywhere and
everywhere
Organisations,
systems and
places (public,
social,
commercial &
citizens)
Big, bold and
innovative
new ideas for
the future of
public
services
“How do we establish
trust in collaboration
across the sector so that
innovation can thrive?”
Challenge #1

20. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO TEST OUT TO
LEARN MORE ABOUT COLLABORATION?
We believe that if we ________________________
Then this will lead to _______________________
We are going to test this by_____________________
And share the learning openly by ________________
& via #CollabOutLoud
Example
We believe that if we work from the outside in then we
can work in the spaces between public services which
will lead to more inclusive and connected approaches.
We are going to test this through the collaborate out loud
community and share our learning openly with anyone
who is interested via social tools and our everyday
conversations

21. WE NEED YOUR HELP AND TALENTS…
Collaborating out Loud can
only be effective in working
from the outside in if:
 We are connected and
trusted by the
organisations we aim to
serve
 Our community is made up
of those within and on the
edges of public services
 We have organisations,
leaders, systems and
places willing to test out
our ideas and feedback
their learning
How you can get involved and
support us to have the biggest
impact:
 Share your current challenges
on “How do we establish trust in
collaboration across the sector
so that innovation can thrive?”
for the community to work on
 Attend our gatherings
 Join in our online community
#CollabOutLoud
 Have a coffee with us
 Volunteer to test out our ideas

22. GET INVOLVED