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I met John Smith and Bev Trayner face-to-face for the first time last year in Florence at a CP2 dialogue. I’d known both of them for years before this meeting. Before Florence it was an online and Skype acquaintance. My face-to-face meeting made a huge difference on how I viewed my role in our community: I’m more involved, I can see the core team, I can really hear the language.
John and Beverly have just published a paper on how they have brought communities together using a combination of online and face-to-face interactions. In each case the face-to-face part consists of an event. Online interactions are used to ramp-up and then ramp-down before and after the event.
They conclude their paper with six heuristics:
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Design for learning using CPD model is productive
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Spending time on social processes
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Using different media to negotiate language as part of a larger process
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Creating new possibilities: subgroups and outside experts as resources
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Demonstrating leadership roles in different media
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Provoking shifts in "comfort zones."
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