At the Nexus in Bowling Green, I met Nancy White, one of the most talented virtual facilitators. We shared a great Open Space session on Web 2.0 together. She told me that just recently, a full World Cafe has been hosted and facilitated in Second Life. The event was organized for the Rockridge Institute, a think tank whose mission is "to deepen and broaden the public's understanding of the political world."
Swallow that. World Café in Second Life (graphical facilitation by Nancy White). I realize more and more, every day: we have just begun to enter the age of online collaboration. I know that some change facilitators can still not fully contemplate the rise of collaborative media on the web.
A few hypotheses that I will present at Atlanta:
- The WWW was a singular technological event of historical importance.
- The age of connectivity has just begun.
- We are all structurally computer illiterate.
- Intra- and extra social platforms will change organizations more than any facilitated workshop can do.
- Web 2.0 will speed up democratization and strategic changes in companies.
- Ultimately, no change initiative will be successful which does not combine virtual and face2face interventions.