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Coaching Online Communities Seminar
This seminar gives people experience with what is possible with social
networking, social media, collaborative decision tools, widgets, and other
Web 2.0 services, especially when packaged into a private online
community.
We start by transcribing a blog post using a cellphone and Jott. Later,
after trying out the collaboration capabilities of the Zoho applications,
checking out a LinkedIn profile, creating a workflow using Gliffy, and
looking into setting up a social network using Ning, we pop into iGoogle
and see the Jott post. Some quick editing of the pretty close
transcription, and cut and paste it into a mini-blog for our private
online community, check a couple of tags, and post it for comments. We
then take a look at the community page and view a couple of simple, short,
targeted orientation videos hosted via Project Streamer.
Next, everyone clicks on the invitation they’ve received to log into our
sandbox community at http://demo.echainreaction.com, and go immediately
into an active Agenda where we discuss ideas for improving working
together virtually, evaluate each idea, assign some actions that appear on
the individual’s profile, and then view the automatically generated
report. We take a look at other standard Agendas, and then pop back to the
private Group page, and people post questions for the moderator.
From there, everyone goes to their personal profile and gives a shot at
posting their own mini-blog entry, commenting on those posted by each
other, and follows these to check out people’s profiles, bookmarks, other
mini-blog posts, polls, and photos.
People add community feeds from people, groups, or events that interest
them, and set up RSS feeds from this community to their own iGoogle page.
We wrap-up checking out video conferencing using Sightspeed, and looking
at widgets, such as the Skype widget enabling individual and team
coaching, for free if everyone’s on a PC, really cheap if not.
Simple. Self serve, with a little coaching. And, very powerful!
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