This is an old presentation, made at Reboot 7.0 in Copenhagen in 2005. Early explorations into the use of social media tools like Blogs and Wikis in collaborative projects and in research. Based on my own experiences as an accidental digital activist and an ethnographer

1. social tools for research & collaboration june 10-11 reboot 7.0 copenhagen

10. beaming pictures and sounds live from the village

12. social tools foster collaboration & community …

13. december 26, 2004 a massive earthquake and resulting tsunamis in the Indian Ocean devastated many countries in South-East and South Asia

20. Nature's force, while tragic, stimulated an almost immediate response and outpouring of help nature's force, while tragic, stimulated an almost immediate response and outpouring of help through the internet

23. no crisis on this scale will ever be handled again without sms , blogs , and wikis social tools will become a natural extension of rapid adaptation to chaotic conditions

24. technology with heart

25. a living document from blog > sub-blogs > wiki

27. cooperation and interdependence

29. communication and information flows communication and information flows

30. a decentralized self-organizing system

32. “ I think your 'blog' was more of a tributary to that big pond. It was a tributary to a larger river, then a lake,then an ocean. Like the source from a rich, minerally-charged fountainhead, the news of this font spread, and those who heard it, swam upstream, bringing others with them. And so the flow reversed somewhat, source being fed by recipient. It was a resource that many could tap into. And, much like chaos, it is often said that water 'finds a way', and a leak is often positioned way beyond its origins." James Straffon, Designer Picture here too ?

33. social tools for research… …many more opportunities

34. blogs in market research “ In the marketing research context, blogs are a disruptive technology. Instead of having to generate data by way of surveys or focus groups with whatever artifacts the process introduces, blogs provide direct visibility into customers. Instead of having to connect potentially artificial samples back to the actual market, now you have to filter real market behavior, interpret it, and make sense of it.” Jim McGee, Director Huron Consulting Group

35. “ the growing popularity of blogs and other online forums has prompted companies to pay more attention to what is being said about them on the Internet, and has given rise to a new kind of market research aimed at finding useful information in the sea of online chatter. “ Wall Street Journal web-monitoring as a research tool…

36. blogs as playgrounds for testing ideas…

39. blogs and social networks help build jazz communities so rich in content - a researcher’s dream come true …

48. news aggregators tagging with flickr, del.icio.us voip / skype / IM podcasting, skypecasting some other tools with applications for research

49. summing up … social tools melt cultural boundaries people pick up the tools that are around them to meet human needs. strong human needs drive these emergent behaviors the challenge for research is to reveal and understand the motives and the process of emergence, as seen through social behavior and media

50. wish list : integration – cell phone, audio-video recording and transcription location awareness– disaster management, field teams video flickr, video skype

51. thank you