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Feel free to check in any time during this period.
Vesa and I have laid the foundation for the book and created a preliminary table of content (see below), and we have started to write some of the chapters. We don't know yet whether the final product will be a physical one, i.e. a printed book or an online resource only. We want to write a simple book that appeals to those who are in the line of fire.
Process 1. Co-authoring on a wiki means that you are giving up the control of your contributions. You trust the process. The editors (Vesa and Holger) will make the final decisions on what will be included in the final version. 2. All contributers will be mentioned with contact details in the final book. 3. When you add to a chapter, do not delete others' peoples contributions but add to them. Feel free to correct linguistic errors. 4. Feel free to add new sub-chapters but do not change the general structure of the table of contents. Do not delete sub-chapters in the table of content. . If you don't want to work with Twitter, that's fine; it is not a must
For coordination, we will establish a Skype chat. This is essential for communication. Please provide us you Skype ID by email to holger@change-facilitation.org, or by direct message on Twitter to @hnauheimer, or simply connect on Skype to hnauheimer. We include all potential authors in our Skype chat before the Write-In starts. Use Twitter and the Skype chat to discuss concepts and contents and ask questions to the editorial team. . Next Steps.
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Hello Holger and Vesa: I find this an intriguing project and something to which I would like very much like to make a contribution. There has been much written on this topic but not in this way. I cannot join on Sunday however, as I am travelling. I will catch up via twitter and wiki when I return. |
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This sounds like a fun project. I would be happy to help in any way I can. I'm joining quite late in the process, however. Please let me know if I may still participate. Best regards, Jacob |
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Jacob, you can, for another 24 hours. Here are some more instructions: Thanks for tuning into that experiment. Let me first of all introduce our team which has met in Berlin for this occasion. We have been working for the last 4 days to prepare this event. 1. This is not, as some of you might expect, a total self-organized, bottom-up writing process (we might do that for another book but we first have to understand of how such processes of co-authoring works. 2. Vesa and I have been working on the book structure for about 3 months and we have started to add content. So, please don’t expect only blank pages. 3. If you are happy to join into an experiment which has already started, you are welcome to the process. During the last days, we have developed a couple of ideas of how to proceed in the process and on the final products. We have come up with the idea that we will have a traveller’s guidebook, a map and an essential traveller’s kit. Presently, we focus on the guidebook.A guidebook needs to be simple and applicable. We are not interested (at this stage) in long philosophical deliberations. 4. If you contribute to this book, there are a few things you need to accept but in turn we offer your something. - You need to accept that your individual contribution will not be visible (bit you can check anybody’s contribution by following the version history). In turn, we will mention you as a contributor with your contact details in the final products. - You need to accept that your contribution can be altered, changed, even turned into the opposite. This is a collaborative process, and we can have side conversations here in the chat room, or in the discussion forum of the Change Management Toolbook. In turn, we will all learn about the power of collaboration. - We don’t think that we can make much money with the end product but in case we develop a product portfolio that can be marketed, you will give up all intellectual property rights of your contributions. In turn, we promise that all contributors will get preferential access to using or reselling the products. We ask you to trust that we will be fair to anybody. 5. It has happened from time to time that our server (which is somewhere in Ohio) goes down. If you don’t have access to the website, please be patient and go for a coffee. Unfortunately, our system has no auto-save function, so we recommend that you save your text every now and then. Is that ok for you? PLEASE DO NOT COPY/PASTE FROM WORD BECAUSE THIS CAUSES FORMATTING PROBLEMS. IF YOU ARE USING A MAC; PLEASE DO NOT USE SAFARI BUT FIREFOX AS YOUR WEB BROWSER.
Any questions? Those of you who are on Twitter, we encourage you to tweet some good statements about the process, using the hashtag #cj02. It is not essential for the process to follow on Twitter but it is fun. You can follow the results in near-to real time using Tweetgrid: http://is.gd/1gWIw (or any other Twitter client), even if you don’t have a Twitter account. Those of you who are conversant on Twitter might do a little bit of PR, for example by spreading the following tweet: Joint write-up of the CHANGE JOURNEY GUIDE has started. I am part of it! #cj02 http://bit.ly/16ebw3 and some more from today's chat:[16:04:41] Holger Nauheimer: Here is what will happen from now on (will also send that around as an email): We will leave the room open for another 24 hours or so. Then we need to close it temporarily for a while to rearrange chapters. We have now our final structure which will look a bit different [16:05:28] francisfe: ok, so that give more time for the arragements of the style in the subchapter I have been working for [16:05:36] francisfe: one question... [16:05:48] Holger Nauheimer: 1. Background on the Change Journey 2. Principles of Change 3. The Change Journey 4. Tools 5. Attitudes, Skills and Capacities of change facilitators [16:06:16] Holger Nauheimer: we will reserve the right to work on chapter 3 alone because this is the heart [16:06:24] francisfe: great...when are you thinking this work is going to be ready=? [16:06:40] Holger Nauheimer: and we will ask others whether they want to write certain secions for chapters 2 and 4 [16:06:59] Holger Nauheimer: We will probably finish it in September [16:07:18] francisfe: ok, please letme know if I could be usefula for anything [16:08:16] Holger Nauheimer: All of you who have contributed will be acknowledged. We are thinking of some licensing, maybe merchandizing of products (sorry, won't tell here), but all who have contributed will get very preferential conditions [16:08:17] Michaela Conley: Thank you for the opportunity to participate. Please also let me know if I may be of assistance in grammer/editing etc. [16:08:29] Holger Nauheimer: @Michaela, definitely [16:09:09] Holger Nauheimer: We don't know where the journey will lead us but we will stay in touch with you [16:09:33] Holger Nauheimer: So, as I said, the Wiki will be open for another 24 hours and then temporarily closed |
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| I have no concerns with regard to the points you've raised above. It all seems very reasonable and straight-forward. May I have the keyword via email to jacob.wood@newedgegroup.com to view the contents and determine where I may be of most value to your team? If there are particular areas for which you have a content gap that you would like someone to focus in on, I'm happy to take that sort of direction as well. I'm a very process oriented thinker, so being more guidebook/practical rather than theoretical/philosophical is great for me. |
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By the time I had caught up with all contributions and was ready to contribute the wiki had been closed. I will now wait for round 2. I may have missed these two points, but I did not see them in journey writing such far. 1) Purpose or intention. To me this is the most important thing for any change journey as it acts as both an anchor and a guide. 2) Not all journeys are the same. The differences between simple and complex change journeys influence how you both prepare and respond to the journey. I mention these in case this this material should fall into the chapters that will be written by Holger, Vesa and Antti. Lucy |