Archive for October 5th, 2008

Posted on October 5, 2008 - by Vic Desotelle

Vic on Collaboration Tools

Let’s set the stage for what will be discussed here:

First of all what are we defining as collaboration tools? Any model or piece of software, especially web based, that helps to guide interactive design between two or more people. As web technology takes the lime light over the next couple of years, we will be looking for insights on tool products, companies, concepts that help to facilitate – not just getting projects done – but improving the human engagement. I look forward to seeing lots of interaction and input from not only those who are making tools, but those of you who want to use them.

What is needed functionally in the tools and why? Where does each tool best apply to brainstorming, vision-creating, decision-making, strategizing, proposing, and so on? How does human behavior relate to tool design and use?

See where I’m going here?

So jump into this conversation and let’s build this blog into an awesome set of sources for learning how to collaborate together – in a world that so much needs healthier ways for communicating and innovating with each other. Ways that make our planet a place where our children and our children’s children will want to be.

Posted on October 5, 2008 - by Vic Desotelle

Vic on Creative Learning

Let’s set the stage for what will be discussed here:

What does this subject have to do with anything outside of a school environment? Well allow me to elaborate …

The world has changed. Noooo, the world is not ‘about’ to change, it HAS changed. And the way we learn no longer fits into the slot of go-to-school, get a degree, then go apply what we learned. No, learning has become a frequent set of feedback loops that are built directly into real experience. So, there is no longer time to go to school and get ‘educated’ (so to speak). Thus, this part of my sustainable innovation blog is dedicated to the new ways we humans are learning. It directly links to collaborative processes, to sustainability, and is critical to developing what I call ‘next generation innovation’.

This next generation forms of innovation carry a much bigger stick in terms of what kind of knowledge capital is embedded into it. Larger questions are asked about the outcome of NGI that is inherently guiding its evolution and manifestation. So join me in this journey by jumping in, being willing to make mistakes, and staying open to other people’s views so that we can find potentially better ways for us to learn together as a now global community.