Guidelines for Group Collaboration and Emergence (via emergent by design)

One more re-blog from Vanessa Meimis’ brilliant blog.

This post reflects what I am convinced the Montreal Junto is capable of, and explains why it is capable of that. Creative, productive collaboration is best-achieved through a structure of peers discussing problems with peers. I was planning on pointing you to a specific section of the post that would be of particular interest to participants in the Montreal Junto, but the whole of it reveals much behind the ingenius practicality of loose collaborative organizations.

Keep posting at emergent by design – we’ll keep reading and learning!

I’m in the middle of taking a course on Virtual Learning Environments (syllabus here), and reading a few chapters from Adaptive Software Development by Highsmith. It approaches the team-building and collaboration process from the perspective of complex adaptive systems theory, and contains some interesting insights in evolutionary development and creating environments where emergence can occur. I’ve created a summary of a chapter that I’d like to … Read More

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Me, We and Junto (via Corazon y Mente)

More on the nascent online Junto!

Listen up, everyone. The social web just got a hell of a lot more interesting with the birth of Junto.  Today, I tried out Junto for the first time and was blown away!  Knowledge sharing, a sense of excitement, thinking out loud, collective delight in the process –  it was fun!  I'll share more about my experience including the specific ideas shared and the thoughts that surfaced on the future of Junto.  Before I get into that, more about the co … Read More

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Junto is Born! (via emergent by design)

Here’s someone that’s taking Franklin’s practical genius online with, of course, the help of her friends. The Junto that Vanessa discusses is purely on-line, but attempts to eliminate some of the down-sides of online collaboration (delay in communication, lack of body language communication, lack of a real feeling of connection) while taking advantage of all of the benefits.

We’ll be following this one to be sure.

Many of us have been inspired by the cooperation meme lately, and it appears that our collective spirit has given birth to Junto! In case you haven’t been following along, Junto is a concept we’ve been discussing for a global communications and collaboration platform. It starts with a simple interface, combining video chat with a text box and a twitter backchannel, all streaming in public, real-time. It could be used for any number of projects or … Read More

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