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By: Developing a community game | DavePress

Developing a community game | DavePress — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:23:21 +0000

[...] is a PDF of the cards I used, which I put together about a year ago for the 2gether08 conference. It’s based on the original by David Wilcox and friends, which has subsequently [...]

By: 2gether08 | Who is talking about 2gether08

2gether08 | Who is talking about 2gether08 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:08:40 +0000

[...] Briggs recounts the session he ran at 2gether08, using the social media game to help people decide what technology tools and [...]

By: David Wilcox

David Wilcox — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:22:59 +0000

Dave – as Tracey says, that was a really great job in developing an appropriate version of the game, organising the backup materials, assembling geeky (and non-geeky) support – and starting the conversations that will hopefully lead to real solutions.
As you indicate with your link, we’ve been evolving the game over the years, and you can see cousins over at http://www.usefulgames.co.uk.
Drew Mackie and I developed the first version about 10 years ago to help non-tech community groups think what computing and connectivity they might want in community-based learning centres.
We’ve released the game under Creative Commons so anyone can develop it, and put later versions into the public domain – as you have. Thanks!
All this is leading up to the idea of using geek/nongeek collective intelligence to develop a 2gether version of the game. I think you have pulled together a terrific core group … and I hope we could involve others. What do you (and others) think?
It sounds as if Matt might have an audience for us!

By: Stuart Sutherland

Stuart Sutherland — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:23:33 +0000

Dave, Thanks for the session. I really enjoyed participating. Good game, good game, as Brucie would say. I think you’re right that many organisations already doing ’stuff’ in this area could benefit from working in this way. All the best with the future plans. FWIW I’m based in the West Mids by the way and in Coventry relatively regularly. I’d like to see Ning on one of the game cards BTW.

By: Tracey Todhunter

Tracey Todhunter — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:39:37 +0000

Dave,
it was a great session, I took away some really useful ideas which I developed for my session the following day. I now have a much clearer idea about how organisers of the Low Carbon Communities Conference in October can listen to what the participants want. Your session really helped me to be clear about how offline tools and online tools can complement each other and lead to greater inclusion. Thank you. Can I also say thanks to the many great people in your session who willingly gave me advice and information. I’ll be following it all up soon on the conference site and will be in touch with my new techie friends

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:18:05 +0000

Matt, sorry! Missed Mitch out as well. Will correct the post.

Am with you all the way on the local gov unconference – it’s a great idea and am happy to play my part!

By: Matt Waring

Matt Waring — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:05:03 +0000

Dave, don’t forget me!

Seriously, I briefly mentioned to you about setting up a day event, putting CE’s and Comm directors of Councils in a room with, well, the kind of guys attending/presenting at the 2gether bash – I know we can bring in the audience, but I need to also find the others (as it were).

Think your media game could play a big part in this – I’ll come back next week with an up-date on how we see it shaping up our end.

cheers

Matt

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 1st through July 4th » the billblog — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:00:15 +0000

[...] 2gether no more | DavePress – I?m absolutely convinced that for events, conferences or whatever, doing fun stuff is more important that sitting and listening to people on stages. [...]