The thing is that nowadays (Whether using IM tools, Twitter, Meeting Rooms, whatever) I just can’t live without those backchannel chats, whether I’m attending a team conference call, a virtual event (Seminars, webinars, workshops, presentations, conference events, lectures, etc. Are there any good resources out there you could leverage to get things going? I can’t remember the exact date when I first took part in a backchannel chat while participating in a virtual event; I guess it must have been a few years back when I first started making use of Lotus Sametime for group chats while at work, back in the early 2000s.

I was in London last week at an event sponsored by my European partners Open Knowledge and one of our clients, Kent Council on leveraging Social Capital for organisational performance. (slides While there were a few presentaions we also had the opportunity to engage the audience of mostly local government staff in extended conversational workshops. slides here [link] ). Consistent with the heading on this post I heard that in managing local government partnerships the majority of the time and effort was spent in trying to design the governance rules, developing governance documents, communicating

Many will disagree that privacy is a concern only to certain demographics and many will also disagree that people have to cede privacy simply to leverage social networking. It can be hard to find an actual disagreement at Davos, given the social effects of sticking a lot of people in workshops and asking them to flesh out the future of the world convivially. Earlier this year, Facebook's Zuckerberg said that the age of privacy is over . At the World Economic Forum in Davos, LinkedIn's Hoffman echoed that sentiment (view the video below) - musing that privacy was an issue of "old