The slides from our first live webinar of collaborate out loud

1. LIVE……..

2. Hey! Great to have you with
us this morning!

3. Meet our Co-Founders
“I work with people, systems, and
places to help them to explore,
shape and connect future
collaborative public services”.
“I help people explore how
they can be the best they can
be and work together
brilliantly”
“I motivate & coach individuals & influence
organisations using a strength based approach
to change, to achieve successful outcomes in
the things that matter most to people,
organisations and communities. ”

4. What do you want from the
next hour?

5. Our story so far….
From a northern quarter
coffeehouse to a very different
kind of community interest
company

9. The 7 Roles of Effective
Communities
How we will ensure we
add value to public
services
Agenda activists: driving the
learning forward
What challenges and
opportunities are worth pursuing
together?
Community keepers: weaving
the social fabric
How do we encourage and hear
all the voices in our community?
Critical friends: reflecting on
the process
How can we pay attention to
how we work together and
continually give ourselves
feedback?
Social reporters: creating a
shared memory
How should our insights,
stories, and community outputs
be captured and recorded?
External messengers:
communicating with external
audiences
Who (outside the community)
do we need to be talking to and
what should we be telling them?
Value detectives: making
value-creation visible
What value should we be
aiming to create and how will
we know when we have got it?
Organizational brokers:
connecting with
organizational stakeholders
How does the community fit into
the wider public service context
and contribute to that agenda?
How we ensure
we add value
We do this by
modelling what
we share with
others and paying
attention to these
questions
Etienne Wenger’s roles
of effective
communities

10. Collaborate Out Loud’s Community Manifesto
Collaborate Out Loud
communities are a democratic
community of innovative and
generous public service
collaborators who work out loud
to hack challenges, hatch new
thinking, experiment with
implementation and prototype
and spread impactful new ideas
that will enable the changing
public services landscape to get
further faster and embracing the
power of new ideas, collaboration
and democracy
How we work
• In an open and free way where anyone could follow the journey
• Where everything that was developed was open source and free to be used
by anyone
• Where the group were true collaborators
• In a way that successes and failures where equally welcome opportunities to
learn
• Where the process of collaborating in this new and free way could be
observed, tested and understood
• By embracing the WorldBlu principles for freedom based and democratic
organisations
What we do
• Serve public services at all levels and places
• Works on the challenges that public services are facing without the
constraints of being within the system
• Crowdsource the challenges to work on to serve public services in a different
and freer space
• Actively encourages challenge, new thinking and learning from when things
don’t work out as expected
• Brings together the unusual suspects, thinking and approaches and allows
the magic to unfold

11. Hear Becci one of the founder members reflections

12. Who are Collaborate Out
Loud CIC?

13. Collaborate Out Loud CIC
creates surprising, simple and
social spaces for public service
innovation and flourishing.

14. We exist to serve those delivering,
participating and accessing public
services to:
• Challenge thinking, practice and
leadership
• Connect the unusual suspects
across different boundaries
• Create capacity and capability for
change
• Co-curate our collective wisdom
and nurture communities to
thrive
• Co-create novel solutions that
break all the rules and make a
difference
Collaborate Out Loud’s Values:
• Surprising – we do the unexpected.
This might be bring in practice and
thinking from unusual places or
helping people to connect across
unusual boundaries.
• Social – we work out loud, share,
work with others and connect with
existing agendas and ideas. We lead
with generosity, openness and trust
• Simple – we know the world is
complicated enough so we are easy
to work with, straightforward and
keep things as simple as we can,
believing that less can be more

15. 1. Harness the energy of
difference
2. Create spaces between
the formal structures
3. Embrace the
principles of
transparency, democracy
and openness
4. Learn to be social,
share with generosity
and kindness
5. Choose a challenge to
work on collaboratively
6. Borrow learning and
thinking from anywhere
and everywhere to learn
collectively
7. Work on a real public
service challenge to
create novel solutions
and ideas
8. Rapidly test and iterate
together
9. Work out loud as you
go
10. Spread the best ideas
(as well as the learning
from the failures)
Keep learning and
sharing…….
How to Collaborate out loud

16. Collaborating Out
Loud circles
(crowd wisdom)
Approaches,
tools and
thinking from
anywhere and
everywhere
Organisations,
systems and
places (public,
social,
commercial &
citizens)
Big, bold and
innovative new
ideas for the
future of
public services
A coaching
approach
A range of
innovation
and
improvement
tools
Social and
digital
platforms for
change

17. Questions???

18. Emerging communities

20. How we can help
Set up a new
community

21. Get in touch
We have a number of ways you can connect
Twitter @CollabOutLoud
#CollabOutLoud
CollaborateOutLoud.org
Hello@CollaborateOutLoud.org