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Crossing Boundaries: Implications for the Content Industries
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Transcending Time: Collabora:on in the virtual age
The Mu:la:on of Uranus by Saturn (Chronos) hDp://img.waggish.org/wp-‐content/uploads/2013/02/The_Mu:lia:on_of_Uranus_by_Saturn.jpg
Time is asynchronous: Meet now, join later!
Thank you for par:cipa:ng in this synchronous / asynchronous experience
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Time is not something that happens to us: it is how we spend our lives.
Chronos (time, eternal duration)
Cronus: hDp://www.aworldofmyths.com/media/Greek_Gods/Cronus/Cronus_2tl.jpg Myths: hDp://www.aworldofmyths.com/Greek_Gods/Cronus.html
Measurable and quan:ta:ve Flows in Nature Expands in planned tasks “Clock :me”
Digitization of Time: evolution of ephemeral registers
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The First Digi:za:on of Time
Osaka Water Clock hDp://www.tofugu.com/wp-‐content/uploads/2011/10/water-‐clock.jpg
The Digital Water Clock Clepsydra: Transferring concepts. From flowing to coun:ng
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Kairos (the right moment)
Museo di An:chità di Torino. Kairos: hDp://www.decorarconarte.com/WebRoot/StoreES2/Shops/61552482/4932/4EA7/AF04/2BA4/78E8/C0A8/28BA/F8A8/DSCN1031.JPG
Characterised by intensity Qualita:ve You flow within it Expands with engagement “Psychological :me”
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Wai:ng Time seems Eternal
Horae (the right order)
Good Order Peace Climate Natural jus:ce “Social :me”
Image: hDp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Dionis_i_Hore.jpg/250px-‐Dionis_i_Hore.jpg Ref: hDp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horae
From Natural to Human iteration
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Chronus, Kairos, and Horae in the Virtual World
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Challenges: -‐Planning our line of ac:on -‐Regula:ng engagement -‐Crea:ng a culture
Planning
Ac:on
Accountability
Observing
Reflec:ng
Sharing
NEMETICS: No:ce, Engage, Mull, Exchange (See Blog Post on Adobe web site)
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The Dance of the Hours
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Wisdom is not the result of a long life of struggling for knowledge acquisi?on, but of the lifelong aBempt to build it.
What makes a market a market, a school a school, or a home, Home?
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Urgent!
Important
Time Management Matrix URGENT NOT URGENT
IMPORTANT
NOT IMPORTANT
3. Collaborators, Teams. -‐Reports, mails, calls… DO: Delegate , simplify, sort.
4. Automa:c tools, Filters, an:-‐spam. -‐ Undesired informa5on/overload control DO: Automa:c treatment, if any, garbage.
1. Writer, producer, content creator. -‐Deadlines, crisis, personal du5es… DO: Fast and efficiently.
2. Project manager, coordinator, leader. -‐Vision, updates, diffusion, debate, DO: Plan , maintain, commit
Na:onal Geographic: Plane Crash, near Sanarate, Guatemala,, by Robert Madden. hDp://es.slideshare.net/guimera/na:onal-‐geographic-‐50-‐best-‐photographs .
The most urgent and important events can not always be planned…
Two possible future paths after a specific moment
Meeting here and now: Space-time
Two-‐Dimensional Space-‐:me Depicted in Three-‐Dimensional Space-‐:me hDp://www.physics.fsu.edu/users/ProsperH/AST3033/Space:me.gif Ref: hDp://www.andersonins:tute.com/physical-‐defini:on-‐of-‐:me.htm
Observation point: “Here and Now”
Timelines of change and complexity
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Components of complexity
Ref: FriendMosaic: hDp://rippleffectgroup.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/olympic-‐:meline1.jpg
Virtual space-‐:me is the result of gathering individual contribu:ons. Complexity relates to the number of unique elements
and the number of connec:ons between them.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream. -Kahlil Gibran
Planetary Time: a measurement tool
We use :me to measure:
– Work and its value – Linear physical distance – Age and maturity – Distribu:on of space around the globe…
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Time Zones
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There are 39 :me zones around the world to define 26 hours!
Kiriba:
What Time is it?
Finland: 12:00
Norway: 11:00
Russia: 14:00
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Playing the Time Zones
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Phase 2: Barcelona 12:00 – 18:00
Phase 1: Tokyo 9:00 – 18:00
Phase 3: New York 12:00 – 18:00
Phase 4: San Francisco 15:00 – 18:00
Arrival Tokyo 14:00 next day – 21 hours of work in 29 hours elapsed :me!
Not So Simple Problems Playing the Time Zones
• Teams don't always know original inten:on – costs of rework can offset the benefits
• Project management is not easily scalable – we s:ll need automated, specialized PM tools
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• Requires more industrial processes to replace hand-‐crazing – pressures on quality increase
• Problems of language, culture, interpreta:ons, etc.
Telling time is also
a cultural transmission A quarter past seven (Spanish, French)
A quarter towards eight (German, Catalan)
Fer:gmachen (Ger.)
Collaborating in a Time-Shifted, Digital Universe
Tools Facilita?on • Email is not a groupware tool • Time-‐shized Computer Assisted
Conferencing (CAC) systems are designed to facilitate many-‐to-‐many communica:on: – Across :me (store-‐and-‐forward
mode) – Across cultures (modera:on tools) – Provides a consultable record – Designed by communicators
Human Facilita?on
• Moderator (project manager?) – S:mulates discussion – Provides cross-‐cultural assistance – Ensures that team members are
in sync and have common understandings
– Controls discussion when necessary
– Provides closure/decision-‐making
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Customized Workflows Choose to add a flow state
Useful way to label pages, organise content and communicate with people in your project
Personalise ways to label, organise and communicate progress in your project
Choose to add a new state
Workflow: Thanks to Angus Edwardson hDps://blog.gathercontent.com/we-‐have-‐launched-‐workflow
Ray Ga
llon & Neu
s Loren
zo THANK YOU
Ray Email: ray@transforma:onsociety.net TwiBer: @RayGallon LinkedIn: Ray Gallon Google Plus: +Ray Gallon Blog – Rant of a Humanist Nerd: hDp://humanistnerd.culturecom.net
Neus Email: neus@transforma:onsociety.net TwiBer: @NewsNeus LinkedIn: Neus Lorenzo
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