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Innovation and Participation

I'm inspired and encouraged by an article in Fast Company called "The Creator Of TED Aims To Reinvent Conferences Once Again". The author, Warren Berger, describes a creative turn-around for TED founder Richard Saul Wurman, who is designing a new kind of conference that will be “like a dinner party with a hundred of the world’s greatest minds having a conversation, two at a time.”

It sounds amazing, and I'm excited to see new creative thinking emerge about the ways we can gather online. Here's what Wurman's website says about the conference:

WWW.WWW will be a gathering of the greatest, most interesting & curious minds in the world engaged in immersive & improvised conversation. It will celebrate the 21st century while drawing attention to the new patterns & convergences affecting our health & that of our planet.

This attention to pattern and convergence sounds like it's right up our alley at the World Café, and perhaps what's most interesting to me is the app they are developing to "harvest" the event:

"The app will be a new modality, perhaps equal to the pivotal changes that have emerged in how we interact with information and each other. It will not merely archive presentations, as is currently the practice, but will offer a unique way to navigate, learn and understand information based on ones own personal journey and vast online resources."

Now all they need is interaction with their "audience"… That to me is the real revolution and innovation happening in the world of conferences. Imagine the possibilities if there was a way for people to really participate in the conversation at this event! Give me a call at weDialogue, Mr Wurman, and we'll set something up.

By the way, the Shift Network is getting wise to the value of audience participation and is bringing me in to host a World Cafe for their online Enlightened Business Summit with Chip Conley, on November 10th. This is actually a fabulous week-long series of free online sessions featuring people like Daniel Goleman, Daniel Pink and … me! 🙂 Come join us!

Comments

  1. Hi Amy
    I love the one called Dreaming. What a wonderful experience you must have had

    Mireille
    Toronto, Canada

  2. Thanks, Fletcher. That one “looks” like you somehow; I’m not surprised you responded to it particularly.

    And yes, Mireille, it really was a wonderful experience, and it continues to reverberate in me…

    I think my favorite of RainbowHawk’s paintings is “Dreaming”, too, although I *really* like several of them.

    The thing about Dreaming is the dynamic energy of all those people dancing in a circle around the world… doing and saying and dreaming the things they do to bring harmony and beauty to the planet…

    That’s us, guys! 🙂

  3. Thank You Amy for ALWAYS spreading and sharing LOVE and BEAUTY!! And thank you Bev ~ for the visual beauty…

    The video was great…so simple so easy…Give LOVE Away (A-Way…)!

    Sending you LOVE Amy dearest!!

  4. Hi all –

    I don’t know what kind of wood it is, Beth, but I’ll check with Bev. It’s an amazing color, isn’t it?

    I love these comments … what great energy you guys bring.

  5. I haven’t looked at the worldshop videos yet, but i really liked “what’s your vision” a lot. Keep “em comin’.

  6. I was particularly struck by the word “articulate” in your video “What is Vision”. Articulating it clearly takes effort and focus, doesn’t it? It was thought provoking.

  7. Yes, this is one of the Great Misunderstandings. As if sacred ground is limited, as if we “make” sacred “space.” The art is removing our blindness to what Is. Thank you for this!

  8. Yahoo…Amy…Get in there and share Your Gifts! – – “Mr. Wurman, you will be missing out big time if you don’t take Amy up on the offer! ”

    As I was reading your post before I got to that part…I was dreaming of you Being their Chief Possibilities Officer! Imagine that…

    Love You…always…