Notes on The 7 Competencies of Online Interaction

I decided to switch rooms to check out Nancy White’s session on Snow White and the Seven Competencies of Online Interaction. Some notes:

• I’m also chatting live in the NV Back Channel. You can join if you want! Dickson just commented that he hates IRC…I guess he’s run into too many viruses!
• Our world is far more unbounded – we’re creating our own reality.
• Nancy is kind of telling a story like Julie, using images on the screen as she goes.
• We have the ability to let this magic happen by changing our organizations.
• Communications Skills – scan, see patterns, write, image-inate, vocalize, intuit; write blog daily, test, draw, record, summarize, listen
• Learning with others – learning as a practice, gift economy, collaborate, open hand…
• Ramlinger – 6 Network Functions: filters, amplifyers, convenors, facilitators, investors, community builders
• Nancy: note, make a competency about tools!
• Facilitation for: relationship, identity/reputation, presence, flow
• Shouting creates quite a different environment online than in meatspace. Learn about improvisation and creatively abrasive!
• Convening Conversations – invite, name the question, initiate, design for local choice, nurture
• Intercultural antennae: broadly defined, heart variations, “default” culture – look, read, live/work/play, bridge!
• Tolerance for Ambiguity – OK with not in control, not knowing, move forward without certainty
• Ability to switch contexts – connectors, networkers, multiple perspectives, outsiderness
• Self-Awareness!
• So what? Undeterred by failure, care for the whole, willing to be vulnerable, value the human system first
• The struggle is the solution. Grieve for the cost of what exists now. Treat the conversation as action. See the reality in the current situation.
• Edith Wharton – There are two ways of spreading the light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.