Resources for Web 2.0

And a useful reference too.

Site by Drew Mackie and David Wilcox, "bringing together old and new material on workshop games and simulations run over the past ten years"

... with links to blog etc where people are discussing how to bid to the govenment programme. Contrast with official forum that is pretty empty

Open invitation process by Ministry of Justice for their Building Democracy innovation fund

... in innovation: bringing together those with problems, those with possible tech solutions, those with resources and support

How worldview may hinder adoption of social media ... with link to David Gurteen original

... for communities of practice

Download pdf. See also categorising tools note

Which tools may work best for Consuming (getting) information, communing/creating, and collaborating. Works with Purpose, People, Process and tools model

First version of the game from 2006, with links to more.

Don't think that introducing technology will lead to creativity and innovation, without cultural and other changes. Would fit well with Mindset-Skills-Technology model

Social media for social innovation game

An interesting report for Oxfam by Roman Krznaric who has worked with Theodore Zeldin. Like this quote:
"We have managed to harness the power of the wind, the sun and the water, but have yet to appreciate the power of our children to affect social change"
Mary Gordon, founder of the Roots of Empathy education programme

Here is an example of a workshop game and a handout I have used when teaching nonprofits about building social media strategies (focusing on goals and people before tools).

This blog post has the graphic and explanation from Brian Solis about the conversation prism (the charted social technologies by funcation).

NTEN and the nonprofit technology community lead by Beth Kanter and others have built a toolkit and instructional guides about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world.

Whether it’s replacing car keys with complex wireless authentication technologies, or grafting endless functionality onto otherwise perfectly usable software - innovation is becoming synonymous with new things you can do, rather than doing what you want more easily. Can we have too much of a good thing?

Just stumbled on 8Notes, a UK-based social network for musicians. You can upload your own music, share and download sheet music, and talk to other musicians via a lively forum.

They have a good-sized collection of not very printable musician jokes too. When I was learning classical violin many, many moons ago it was always viola jokes - from a quick glance round it looks like nothing much has changed...

http://www.8notes.com/

I've been chatting to Pearl Blay, a beading craftswoman and teacher, about her passion for beads and how she uses the Web to pursue this.

http://schoolofeverything.com/blog/beading-gem-how-web-transforming-crafts