Collaborative Culture Camp - overview

On Friday October 15, 2010 I attended an event at Library and Archives Canada called Collaborative Culture Camp.  I had provided a tiny initial spark of an idea that thanks to an exceptional group of public servants (and some not even currently employed in the public service) turned into a roaring fire.  I think it really demonstrated "the art of the possible" when it comes to putting a government event together.

Right now in the Government of Canada we're in an interesting situation where we're using a mix of purely internal tools (such as our government-wide wiki, GCPEDIA) as well as public tools (like Twitter and Google Docs) for various types of collaboration and sharing.  The event was extensively tweeted (an "amplified conference" to use the terminology originated by Lorcan Dempsey and favoured by Brian Kelly).

I know of three Twitter archives for the event.  There were roughly 1600 tweets during the daylong event, which had about 200 attendees.

• http://archivist.visitmix.com/jesgood/14 set up by Jesse Good (@jesgood), who also ran the Twitter wall
• http://girlwiththesuper8.tumblr.com/post/1320430371/c3-archived-twitter-stream
• http://www.twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/goc3 (analytics available at http://summarizr.labs.eduserv.org.uk/?hashtag=goc3 )

Overall it was an inspiring event, further enhanced by the keynote from Wayne Wouters, the Clerk of the Privy Council, who in his role as head of the public service spoke about the need for increased collaboration across government and the use of modern tools to support our work.  (He even tweets, in part just to demonstrate to the rest of government that it's ok to do so: @WayneWouters - although he did warn that he mainly uses it to draw attention to the accomplishments of the public service or individual public servants.)

I will have more to say in future postings about the event and the panel I was on.

Other postings related to this event:

• Working horizontally in a vertical world by metrics guru and overall results-oriented achiever of amazing things Laura Wesley (@ResultsJunkie on Twitter)
• Kewl App Alert: Conference Notetaking with Google Docs by technology adopter Tanya Snook (@spydergrrl on Twitter) - whose conference-ending pitch for Movember I will forgive as it is for a good cause

UPDATE: Here's some background information on the event, including the poster that was made for it and a link to the (Government of Canada internal only) GCPEDIA page about it - Event: Collaborative Culture Camp by Nick Charney (@nickcharney)

Comments

[Spydergrrl]

Aw, thanks Richard. Great post! BTW, love your description of Laura. Dead on.