Cutting Edge BEtreat: Leadership Roles

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