Making social reporting part of community building

David Wilcox and Drew Mackie

Thursday, 19 April 12

Slides based on a set developed for a workshop run by Drew Mackie and David Wilcox at Manchester Forward March 2012. The aim was to explore how social reporting could contribute to community building, as described here http://socialreporter.com/?p=2113

We could start talking about lots of social media tools that might be useful

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There are plenty of social media tools, but thats not the place to start

... but we should choose methods last and put context and people rst

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In developing any project or process think rst about the context, then purpose, people, and nally about the tools. More here on that http:// www.socialbysocial.com/book/where-do-you-want-go

Today that means ...

Describing a community and its challenges Matching SR value to community building e.g. social media to build networks

Choosing appropriate methods for

activities - e.g. events, stories, updates

Working through what that means for you

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At the workshop we invented a ctitious place to give us a context, some challenges (purpose), and people in order then to think about the tools. We had done this before with the Social by Social game http://socialbysocial.net/notes/Social_by_Social_game In this instance we used the ctitious town of Slapham, that we have been using for another game. http://socialreporter.com/?p=1946 Heres the cards that we used in the game http://www.scribd.com/doc/90102394

Social Reporting Introduction to Social Reporting, Social Media & Network Mapping Social Reporting Cards

Slapham Scenario

A Month in the Life of a Network Builder

Discussion & Hands on work Community Building

Network Mapping Exercise Network Mapping

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Heres the workshop sequence: an introduction, development of the scenario, an exploration of network mapping, then considering what might work for community builders. More here in Drew Mackies networks library https://www.evernote.com/pub/admaque/sharednetworks Heres the cards we used in the game http://www.scribd.com/doc/90102394

Elements of social reporting

Joining up Making sense

Social reporting

Helping out Scrutinising

(if no-one else will)

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The key elements of social reporting, as I see them. More here on that http://socialreporter.com/?p=1305

Where social reporting may be most useful

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Suggestions on how social reporting and community building relate.

Propositions - 1
Social reporting is a lot like community building

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Listening is the rst skill Go where people are: in-boxes, social spaces You cant be sociable outside if not sharing inside Gathering content can be as valuable as creating Tell stories, start conversations Build their networks, not just yours

Talking points

Propositions - 2
Digitally offers opportunities ... and challenges .... so

Offer a mix of media - text, pictures, audio, video Blend and connect online and face-to-face Help people tell their stories Keep the overhead low (no high maintenance sites) Fit into your workow: light, mobile

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Thinking about networks

Developing a social innovation network How can we help local groups, civil society organisations, agencies, share ideas and experience of doing "good stuff" locally and nationally. Move from models 1. and 2. to model 3

2. Cluster: Join in (if you can)

1. Portal: "join us"

nodes for ideas and support; people, events, hubs ideas via stories and conversations

3. Mesh: join up your own connections

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While there may be more talk about networking, many organisations still operate as hierarchies, or in clusters of hierarchies. To achieve the soirt of civil society networking we are exploring here, we need more of a mesh.

Networks
A CONVERSATIONAL network exists to share ideas and experiences. It may be as informal as friends who attend the same social functions. Or it may be more formal in the partnerships that allow different agencies to let each other know what is going on. A COOPERATIVE network occurs between people or agencies who adapt their independent practices to promote a shared goal. A COLLABORATIVE network is one in which its members share resources - skills, premises, funding, communication platforms etc - to achieve a shared goal.

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Drews suggestions about different types of networks.

Belfast Community Tourism Network

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An example of a network map from Drews library

Community & Agencies in Berwick upon Tweed

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How you can map perception of assets

Collaborative attitudes and behaviours

Collaboration pyramid Oscar Berg

http://www.thecontenteconomy.com/2012/02/collaboration-pyramid.html

Collaboration depends on connecting, conversing, sharing, being visible, discovering, building trust
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Oscar Berg writes about The collaboration pyramid (or iceberg) http://www.thecontenteconomy.com/2012/02/collaboration-pyramid.html While he is writing about enterprises, the same principles apply more widely: The majority of the value-creation activities in an enterprise are hidden. They happen below the surface. What we see when we think of collaboration in the traditional sense (structured team-based collaboration) is the tip of the iceberg teams who are coordinating their actions to achieve some goal. We dont see and thus dont recognize - all the activities which have enabled the team to form and which help them throughout their journey. We see the people in the team, how they coordinate their actions and the results of their actions, but we rarely see the other things which have been critical for their success. For example, we dont see how they have used their personal networks to access knowledge, information and skills which they dont have in their team already but which are instrumental for their success. The layers which are below the surface are usually not recognized or valued. Below the surface you typically nd: The direct and indirect contributions from people outside the team by the extended team, stakeholders and external contributors Other kinds of broader and ad hoc collaboration (social collaboration) than those that t within the traditional denition of (structured, team-based) collaboration The ongoing community building that makes people trust each other and commit themselves to a shared purpose The efforts of gaining the workspace awareness that is necessary for making the right decisions in any collaborative effort Bring those above the surface so they can be recognized and supported. If people can't do those things, even the traditional collaboration efforts will suffer or might not even happen. If we are to improve efciency and effectiveness of collaborative efforts, we need to better support these layers. The rst step towards improving these layers of collaboration and support other kinds of collaboration is to recognize their existence and value.

Subscribe to feeds in Google reader

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A few examples of tools

Yammer - like long form Twitter

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Building a site to report an event

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An exploration of digital literacy drawn from Howard Rheingolds book - more here http://socialreporter.com/?p=2079

Developing more sociable organisations

Curate content

Resources Events
Commission Host

Convene and catalyse

Capture stories and knowledge Visit Build networks

Explorations

Moving from central to social - and a knowledge ecology

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I developed this diagram for a conversation with staff at Big Lottery Fund, where John Popham and I did some work in 2011 exploring how BIG could be more than a funder. The blog entries are here http://www.socialreporters.net/?p=256 I suggested the BIG might aim to do more in catalysing and convening. Events could be reported in ways that help build networks, with content curated to provide more resources. Visits to groups and other activities could be used to develop stories about local action, and build networks