Here is another interesting session at the IAF conference in Atlanta hosted by John Caroll from Dynamic Decisions. John starts with giving room to introduction of the 20 participants of the seminar after which he says rightly that he justhas sequentally hearded 20 good ideas which are all to assess and process. He recalls the time when facilitation started to introduce butcher paper, flip charts, paper cards, post its etc. to initiate brainstorming and collecting / clustering ideas. It is interesting to see how technology has moved on like that, and then again: do you realize, how little technology is used in workshops to spead up creativity?

What is the Leap? The Leap for John was to facilitating intense virtual team efforts using online team spaces and advanced facilitator toolkits - to do things in hours which would yesterday have taken months or years. This becomes the challenge of the future.

The Five P's of Online Communities
(for more, http://www.thefacilitatorscommunity.com/)
- Privacy
- Pre-Wired
- Purpose
- Process
- People

John talks about new roles ín online group facilitation:
- community administrators
- webmasters
- coaches
- facilitators

What are the emergent levels of collaboration?
1 One-to-Many
2 Many-to-Few
3 Many-to-Many

Some online platforms John mentioned that I don't know and I yet have to check out:

Gliffy (create charts)

Zoho (office suite)

MailChimp (email marketing)

SurveyMonkey (create surveys)

Jive (enterprise collaboration)

Kaneva (second life like parallel world - have to check this definitely)

Mzinga (customer cimmunities)

John introduces us to the new community platform of the IAF, which you can find at http://www.thefacilitatorscommunity.com/.

It seems to be a great possibility of connecting people online. More on that soon.

Great session and a good preparation for mine tomorrow!