Collaborate Out Loud - The Journey so far for The Social Age Safari
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The document discusses "Collaborating Out Loud", which is described as a democratic tribe of public service collaborators who work openly to address challenges, develop new ideas, experiment with solutions, and spread impactful innovations. The group works in an open, free, collaborative and learning-focused way. They aim to serve public services at all levels by crowdsourcing challenges and encouraging new thinking without constraints. The document reflects on building an effective community and establishing trust across sectors to enable collaboration and innovation. It invites involvement to support testing ideas and sharing learning.
Collaborate Out Loud - The Journey so far for The Social Age Safari
- 6. Julian Stodd The Social Leadership Handbook
- 7. COLLABORATING OUT LOUD IS.. A democratic tribe of innovative and generous public service collaborators who work out loud to hack challenges, hatch new thinking, experiment with implementation and prototype and spread impactful new ideas that will enable the changing public services landscape to get further faster and embracing the power of new ideas, collaboration and democracy
- 9. COLLABORATING OUT LOUD WORKS. In an open and free way where anyone could follow the journey Where everything that was developed was open source and free to be used by anyone Where the group were true collaborators In a way that successes and failures where equally welcome opportunities to learn Where the process of collaborating in this new and free way could be observed, tested and understood By embracing the WorldBlu principles for freedom based and democratic organisations
- 10. COLLABORATING OUT LOUD: Serve public services at all levels and places Works on the challenges that public services are facing without the constraints of being within the system Crowdsource the challenges to work on to serve public services in a different and freer space Actively encourages challenge, new thinking and learning from when things dont work out as expected Brings together the unusual suspects, thinking and approaches and allows the magic to unfold
- 11. REFLECTIONS FOR BECCI AND GILL
- 12. The 7 Roles of Effective Communities How we will ensure we add value to public services Agenda activists: driving the learning forward What challenges and opportunities are worth pursuing together? Community keepers: weaving the social fabric How do we encourage and hear all the voices in our community? Critical friends: reflecting on the process How can we pay attention to how we work together and continually give ourselves feedback? Social reporters: creating a shared memory How should our insights, stories, and community outputs be captured and recorded? External messengers: communicating with external audiences Who (outside the community) do we need to be talking to and what should we be telling them? Value detectives: making value-creation visible What value should we be aiming to create and how will we know when we have got it? Organizational brokers: connecting with organizational stakeholders How does the community fit into the wider public service context and contribute to that agenda? Based on Etienne Wengers roles for effective communities of practice
- 15. Experimenting with these ideas
- 16. It takes hard work to build a community Slowing down to speed up Just saying its a democratic community doesnt make it one
- 18. Know your purpose Work hard not to get in the way Self awareness is essential
- 19. Collaborating Out Loud tribe Approaches, tools and thinking from anywhere and everywhere Organisations, systems and places (public, social, commercial & citizens) Big, bold and innovative new ideas for the future of public services How do we establish trust in collaboration across the sector so that innovation can thrive? Challenge #1
- 20. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO TEST OUT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT COLLABORATION? We believe that if we ________________________ Then this will lead to _______________________ We are going to test this by_____________________ And share the learning openly by ________________ & via #CollabOutLoud Example We believe that if we work from the outside in then we can work in the spaces between public services which will lead to more inclusive and connected approaches. We are going to test this through the collaborate out loud community and share our learning openly with anyone who is interested via social tools and our everyday conversations
- 21. WE NEED YOUR HELP AND TALENTS Collaborating out Loud can only be effective in working from the outside in if: We are connected and trusted by the organisations we aim to serve Our community is made up of those within and on the edges of public services We have organisations, leaders, systems and places willing to test out our ideas and feedback their learning How you can get involved and support us to have the biggest impact: Share your current challenges on How do we establish trust in collaboration across the sector so that innovation can thrive? for the community to work on Attend our gatherings Join in our online community #CollabOutLoud Have a coffee with us Volunteer to test out our ideas
- 22. GET INVOLVED