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Harnessing the power of connectedness
GLOBAL NETWORKS |LOCAL IMPACTS
We Live NY SummitMarch 25,2011Paul Treadwell
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� In the U.S. 79% of adults use the internet (as of May, 2010)
� Worldwide mobile phones = 5 bill ion +
� Facebook has over 500 mill ion active users
�More access, more information, more«
LIVING IN A CONNECTED WORLD.
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� Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have
opened access to new conten t and audiences across the
globe.
Geographic boundaries have become porous on the internet
Research, collaboration and cooperation are facilitated across
boundaries.
Your networks can be embodied, local, virtual and global
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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� Regardless of the virtual/embodied distinction, your social
identity is built on the 3R¶s:
LIVING IN MULTIPLE WORLDS
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� Seeding and cultivating your social iden tity helps establish:
Trust
Boundaries
Authority
Reciprocity
� With the goal of:
Using our reputation
To build relationships
To access resources
MANAGING THE ECOSYSTEM
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� A small circle of friends is always good, but
Expanding vision
Building new relationships
and
Discovering innovation
� Push at the comfortable edges of relationship.
� Asymmetries in your network represent learning nodes
You should know people you don¶t know
SEEKING ASYMMETRY
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� Social content opens the cycle of production and
consumption
Youtube, Wikipedia, etc have altered traditional patterns
� In social networks, contribution is the coin of the realm
� There is a, poten tially, democratizing of production and
consumption
� Is this a façade?
PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS
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� Change and innovation rise from learning.
Social networks can provide:
Access and connections for informal learning
Testing grounds for new ideas
Peer learning and informal mentoring
SOCIAL NETWORKS AS LEARNING
NETWORKS
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� Vital communities, whether online or off, evolve
� Not every relationship is active, all the time
� As you interact you change
� This is a Good Thing.
EVERYTHING CHANGES
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� Beyond the personal, the technologies of social networking
can be used to reconnect with the world. (the real world)
� The power of connectedness is realized in our l ives, where
we live, work and play.
� This should not lead to schizophrenia (an online vs offl ine
identity)
� Tourism or «..? (It makes sense, rea lly«)
SOCIAL MEDIA ± TANGIBLE ACTION
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� The tools, and processes, of social networking online can be
brought to play in physical communities.
Participatory budgeting is one example
Community networks, community telecenters ± precursors to the
current web2.0 technologies
HARNESSING SOCIAL
TECHNOLOGIES FOR LOCAL IMPACT
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� Can we envision (do they already exist) face to face
communities that embrace the best o f web 2.0?
Peer production
Rapid innovation
Entrepreneurial
� How do we maintain the character of local communities
while engaging the global marketplace of ideas and
innovation?
WEB 2.0 COMMUNITIES?
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� From the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Provides templates, scorecards and instruction on assessing an
creating a plan of action to facilitate the development of ³stronger
communities through information exchange.´
COMMUNITY INFORMATION TOOLKIT
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³LEARNING REGIONS´
From ³The role of ITCs in Facilitating Regional Development: Some
preliminary findings.´ Toland and Yoong, 2007
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� Pew Internet and American Life:
http://www.pewinternet.org/
� Community Information Toolk it
http://www.knightcomm.org/the-community-information-toolkit-version-1-
0/
� Toland, J. & Yoong,P. The Role of ICTs in faci litating
Regional Development:
http://www.ccnr.net/prato2007/archive/TolandYoongPratoRevised%2014
2%20.pdf
REFERENCES AND LINKS
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