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  • Eugene Eric Kim 3:23 pm on November 13, 2013 Permalink |  

    Here’s @dana’s exit interview:

    http://changemakerbootcamp.com/2013/11/13/exit-interview-dana-reynolds/

    Talking to @brooking tomorrow; will post next week!

     
  • Eugene Eric Kim 4:04 pm on November 12, 2013 Permalink |  

    Hope everyone had a good Veteran’s Day weekend! I posted @jessausinheiler’s exit interview yesterday. @dana’s goes up tomorrow, and @brooking’s next week.

    http://changemakerbootcamp.com/2013/11/11/exit-interview-jessica-ausinheiler/

     
  • Eugene Eric Kim 12:55 am on November 9, 2013 Permalink |  

    It was a fun little group dynamics exercise for me to watch you all talk about the possibility of continuing to meet, actually picking a date, and then exploring what you might want to do together on that date. Rather than simply enjoy the exercise in silence, I thought I’d also try to contribute something useful. 🙂

    First, my meta-observations: @jessausinheiler showed a lot of leadership in not only proposing a date, but also by making an offer. To me, that was classic do-acracy. @brooking showed a lot of leadership in committing to the date, then advocating for her interests. When there was conflict around what to do on the 10th, Brooking then showed skill by noting that there wasn’t shared clarity around what all of the individual goals were for continuing to meet.

    There’s a spectrum of ways to get that clarity. On the one hand, you can have a discussion, get all of your interests on a table, then try to come to consensus on a meeting goal and design for the 10th. On the other hand, you can let the person who organizes decide. If people aren’t interested in following, they won’t come.

    I would lean towards the “let the organizer decide” part of the spectrum. And, I’d like to step out of the observer role to make a suggestion and an offer.

    I would like to see two things happening at scale. First, I’d like to see people doing workouts on their own. Second, I’d like to see people doing “jam sessions” on their own. By jam sessions, I mean coming together and practicing by playing. That could mean making up the workout on the fly, or it could mean having one person pick the progression they want to try playing.

    One of the things on my list to do is to create “workout cards,” so that people can easily download and do these workouts on their own. I’ve started doing some of this to support @anna341bc and @lauren, but I want to push them all out sooner rather than later.

    I’d encourage you all to commit to meeting for five weeks, not just one. Since Jess organized the first session, I’d let her decide what she wants to do. She may choose to solicit input, or she may choose to do her own thing. Since Brooking has shown strong interest in a specific experiment, I’d let her have the second session.

    The rest of you can pick the remaining days. If you’d like to use one of my workouts, let me know, and I’ll prioritize pushing out the appropriate workout card.

    Finally, my offer to all of you is: 1. to come to all five sessions as a participant rather than a facilitator; and 2. to offer support and feedback for anyone who’d like help designing a session.

    How does that sound?

     
    • Jessica 4:35 pm on November 18, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Eugene, I think my reply to your comment here got lost in the shuffle…

      …maybe I can solicit your and @marie and @eekim ‘s help in turning @marie ‘s “narrowing” challenge into our next bootcamp exercise (yes team … I’m “it”):

      1. Using a deck of “calling cards” by Richard Leider. The deck of cards showcase various “callings” (e.g., thinking critically, connecting to others, writing) and requires you to quickly identify what your core interests are. Would it be interesting to go through an exercise of narrowing down a set of skills to think about what you might be passionate and/or good at? (I have a sense that @brooking might have done this before)

      2. As part of a community of practice of which I was a part, we had Holly Minch present a “persuation framework” (see this link: http://networksguide.wikispaces.com/4-6+Creating+shared+language+and+talking+about+networks+and+network+impact) that helps you think about crafting highly targeted/relevant messages.

      Does anyone have a particularly negative reaction to either of these two?
      @impact hub? @eekim and @marie, you interested in helping a changemaker create a workout around either one of these?

      • Eugene Eric Kim 1:05 am on November 22, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Responded here.

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        Brooking 11:22 pm on November 24, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Belated reply but Jess I am totally down and excited to do this calling card thing in our 1st session!

  • Eugene Eric Kim 3:33 pm on November 8, 2013 Permalink |  

    Fun, fun, fun to see bootcampers — old and new — pop onto the water cooler this week! I had a long day yesterday that was packed with meetings, but it was re-energizing to peek here afterward and see all of this activity!

    My exit interview with @eugenechan is now up:

    http://changemakerbootcamp.com/2013/11/08/exit-interview-eugene-chan/

    I’ll post @jessausinheiler and @dana’s next week and @brooking’s the week after.

     
  • Eugene Eric Kim 7:20 pm on November 6, 2013 Permalink |  

    I just posted our first exit interview (thanks @marie!) on the Changemaker Bootcamp blog.

    http://changemakerbootcamp.com/2013/11/06/exit-interview-marie-haller/

    Looking forward to speaking with the rest of you over the next week. You’ll be able to watch the aggregated set at:

    http://changemakerbootcamp.com/bootcamps/exit-interviews/

     
  • Eugene Eric Kim 7:42 am on November 6, 2013 Permalink |
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    Y’all are a powerful looking bunch! 🙂

    Thanks for being such a wonderful group. I’ll post more thoughts on possible followups later this week. Until then!

     
  • Eugene Eric Kim 12:32 am on November 5, 2013 Permalink |  

    Looking forward to our last bootcamp session tomorrow and the last session of 2013! Don’t forget, we’ll be doing tea at Samovar right afterward. Looks like @natalie will be joining us!

    See you all tomorrow afternoon.

     
    • Jessica 7:32 pm on November 5, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Okay team, two things:
      1) Check out this link from BBC today: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20131104-making-meetings-matter… and this is also a hot topic of discussion at my client these days… how to make best practices spread?! Eugene, could we link to your resources on the BBC site?
      2) Had a productive conversation with my colleague Jeremy about our work/professional relationship, workplanning, and sharing information. I felt empowered, partly because our conversation revealed a problem he was dealing with that I could help solve. He was thankful that I named the problem and took interest in addressing it.
      More when we meet! Looking forward!
      Jess

      • Eugene Eric Kim 10:59 pm on November 6, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Thanks for sharing, @jessausinheiler! Everyone has write access to the Resources document, so feel free to add away! And so glad that your conversation with Jeremy was productive.

  • Eugene Eric Kim 7:00 pm on October 31, 2013 Permalink |
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    I’d love all of your help in a little experiment in online deliberation. My friend, Travis Kriplean, has created a tool called ConsiderIt that I’ve been playing with, and I’d love all of your help in trying to evaluate it.

    The topic I’d like to discuss is Post-Its. As you all know, Post-Its are a pretty core tool for this kind of work. ForestEthics has recently charged 3M with making Post-Its from old growth forests. 3M has challenged that claim. I’m trying to decide what to do.

    To participate in this discussion, go to: https://fasterthan20.consider.it/6b2c096443

    As an interesting aside, @renee’s husband is in the green office supplies business, which I mentioned in one of my Pro cards.

    Would love it if you all took a few minutes to participate! Feel free to share your experiences of the tool in the comments below. Thanks!

     
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      Renee 1:01 am on November 8, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      thanks for thegreenoffice.com shout-out, Eugene! the tool looks kind of interesting, but i didn’t want to have to log-in to participate. log-ins are a barrier to entry for me… i don’t want to log in unless its something i know i’m going to use.

      • Eugene Eric Kim 3:19 pm on November 8, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Totally understand, @renee. Others have had similar pushback. Thanks for the feedback! I’ll write up the results of the experiment and share.

  • Eugene Eric Kim 3:32 pm on October 28, 2013 Permalink |
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    @jessausinheiler’s most recent update coyly made reference to #failforward being “back in play.” She was referring to tweeting stories and using #failforward as a hash tag. Her most recent Tweet is at:

    You can follow a real-time #failforward Twitter feed.

    Some of my blog posts on #failforward can be found at: http://eekim.com/blog/tag/failure/

    My most relevant posts are:

    I believe the challenge posed at the last bootcamp session was for all of you to share stories of failing forward. Feel free to do so in the comments below or in your own post (tagged “failforward”)!

     
  • Eugene Eric Kim 3:20 pm on October 28, 2013 Permalink |
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    Folks have posted enough great links here for me to start collecting them in one place. I’ve created a new Resources Google Doc:

    https://docs.google.com/a/fasterthan20.com/document/d/1cQCRH6GW0VS4Pz5yZLzlqwtyr0yoSxGSBp3V1fPd9bM/edit#

    I put links in from @jessausinheiler and @brooking as well as a few of my own. All you have write access (if you don’t, email me), so feel free to edit away!

     
    • Eugene Eric Kim 3:23 pm on October 28, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I also made it a link in the main menu above for easy access.

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