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| Notes from the Leadership Team's first meeting |
During the Cutting Edge BEtreat, we were asked to choose a leadership role. I pair up with other workshop participants to take on the role of Social Reporter. Here's a bulleted summary of that experience.
What did happen?
- A little activity on twitter #betreat12
- 250+ photos
- Short "how goes it" video interviews
- Storify (in progress)
- Some video to capture the experience
- We took personal notes that might be shared publicly through our own blogs
What happens next?
- Finish uploading, describing, tagging photos
- Edit video interviews and upload to private space. Add links to wiki.
- Create an experience video (if time)
- Complete Storify to have an archive of tweets. Embed in wiki.
- Look for blog posts from BEtreat participants to add to Storify.
Enablers / General observations
- Everyone so willing and enthusiastic about quick interviews
- Lots of fun to capture. Dancing in the streets!
- Endless possibilities. Lots of rich content
- Early conversations around concerns - what is appropriate to share were very useful in guiding our social reporting approach
- Lots of potential for everyone to engage in the social reporting role through tags
- Being in both places (twitter and Grass Valley) didn't always feel natural
- Some evidence of engagement people outside the cutting edge group, but not a lot
- We didn't feel pressured in our roles - were able to be realistic and be present
Challenges / Considerations for next time
- Normally would have made use of data plan for sending out photos through twitter, etc but was uncertain about international costs
- Internet connection issues - was more time consuming to upload. Lots of starts and stops
- Just a handful are twitter users, including members of the social reporting team
- Made assumptions about use of free services as a way to share our photos (e.g. not many are Flickr users).
- Logistics around using free, public services for video
- Taking time to explain the how part of what we're doing
- Could have done more with online participants!
- Time consuming to do a good job. Would love to do more with video editing but cautious about making too many promises
- The leadership group didn't have responsibility for a buddy, perhaps led to not feeling as connected
- Social connections to online participants - create a social backchannel? (Idea can be expanded to capturing notes)
- Remain realistic about what we can do next
- Objective is to help build connections so that here is more potential for future interactions, but don't impose any structure.
- Wondering about importance of externalization of the event (say, through twitter) - what's the best approach?
- Gather feeds, embed content on the Communication Channels page
