1. Online Collaboration — Delivering
Benefits for Organisations and
Participants
@danrandow
Chief Wrangler
http://onlinegroups.net

2. Latest Post: 3 May 2007,
by Dan.
Hi All,
Welcome to this new online
group. This is going to
be really great.
Please post your intro.

3. How many social
workers does it take
to change a lightbulb?

4. “
We have this belief that
kids are just addicted to
social network sites. If
anything, they’re addicted
to their friends.
”
Danah Boyd
http://danah.org/

7. How to Make People Collaborate
Motivation Opportunity
to to Collaboration
Collaborate Collaborate

8. How to Make People Collaborate
Motivation Opportunity
to to Collaboration
Collaborate Collaborate

9. How to Make People Collaborate
$$$
Motivation Opportunity
to to Collaboration
Collaborate Collaborate

10. Success Factors
● Solve a Problem
● Get the Boundaries right
●
Get the Technology right
●
Provide Leadership

11. Solve a Problem
Convenor Participants
Efficiency More Done
Effectiveness More Fun

12. Solve a Problem
● Who is the target market?
● What problem do they have?

13. Solve a Problem
● What is the user's task?
● What is stopping them achieve it?

14. Solve a Problem
Who needs to interact with
whom, in what way and why?

17. 18
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10
Posts
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Kerry Viv Val Sally Andrew Sean
Kelly Adrian John Jean James Sue Jane

18. Collaboration Tasks
● Keep track of conversations
● Closely follow conversations
●
Contribute to conversations

19. Technical Creative
Community Community
of Practice of Practice
Green
Project
Team
Red
Project
Team

20. eCampus Philip
Office
Roberta Jonelle
Ann Graeme Mary-Louise
Dan Alice Michael
eCampus Richard
Team

21. Solve a Problem
Who needs to interact with
whom, in what way and why?

22. Boundaries
● Membership of this online group is open
to…

23. Boundaries
Public Private Secret
anyone can request or invitation
join invitation only
home home home
messages messages messages
& files & files & files

24. Boundaries
● Governance: who has the Off-Switch?

26. Technology
● EDMS
● Blogging
●
Forums
●
Social Network
●
Microblogging
●
IM

27. Technology
More Structure
EDMS
Higher Barrier
●
● Blogging
●
Forums
●
Social Network
●
Microblogging
●
IM

28. Technology: criteria
● Share & store messages and files
● Low cost to deploy
●
Easy to adopt
●
Platform independent

29. Technology: criteria
● Share & store messages and files
● Low cost to deploy
●
Easy to adopt
●
Platform independent
●
Supports many-to-many communication

30. ecampus_team@onlinegroups.net
http://onlinegroups.net/groups/ecampus_team

31. thanks flickr.com/simondee

32. How to Make People Collaborate
$$$
Motivation Opportunity
to to Collaboration
Collaborate Collaborate

33. Motivation
Share Now,
Benefit Later

34. Motivation
Share Now,
Benefit Later, Maybe

35. Kiwi Intranets
http://kiwi.onlinegroups.net/groups/kiwi_intranets
KI latest topics

38. Dataversity
http://dataversity.org.nz/
DV latest topics

41. Canterbury Online Public Issues Forum
http://canterburyissues.org.nz
copif latest topics

44. Boundaries (again)
● Use your real name
● Be civil
●
Keep it local
●
Max two posts per day

45. Leadership
● Hold the Vision
● Generate Content
●
Coach
●
Police