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Collaboration Mixing Board

Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 19:21 | Category : Art and Creativity, Community, Mapping and Visualization, Social Change, Technology
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This morning I read a RT from @jhagel:

Open source trumps crowdsource – by @cdgramshttp://bit.ly/bIn1at

And an idea that has been bubbling in the back of my head came to the surface begging to be set free. Collaboration and Cooperation are complex processes. Setting up them as rivals diminishes the value each provide us. One is not better than another as much as one may be more or less appropriate for a particular issue. And there are a bunch of knobs and dials to adjust based on what we have to put into the system and what we would like to have as output.

My initial “Mixing Board” points to several of these knobs and dials and some of the measures we might watch. I hope you will consider these and contribute to a revised version that holds greater rigor and collective wisdom. :) Collaborate with me!

CollaborationSThis is the basic mixer. We have 3 areas: the Dials – things that feel measurable and adjustable, the Knobs – things that feel like a spectrum, and the Lights – things that we can sense but probably not directly adjust.

The Dials:

  • # of contributors (5 people, 25, 100, 1000, 10000, etc)
  • # of beneficiaries (5 people, 25, 100, 1000, 10000, etc)
  • degree of facilitation/quality control (none, light-handed, moderated, tight, regulated)
    1. none – for example – the ability to co-create the internet approaches NO facilitation and NO quality control.
    2. light-handed – co-creating youtube is light-handed (as is most major social media space) with very simple rules.. and very little quality control
    3. moderated – wikipedia has a process for including content, a system for elevating reputation, and a fairly advanced peer produced quality control system and standards
    4. tight – most blogs (from harvard business blogs to Daily Kos) where several people have permission to add posts (the comment option might be handled lightly to not at all however) and the quality control is high (even if the quality is not high – the control of it is)
    5. regulated – let’s talk wall street stats or sports numbers collecting on websites – there is regulation about the information to control the quality and the facilitation is more in the realm of bureaucracy
  • feedback loops – do stakeholders/creators have ways of getting feedback on the collaborations? For example, couchsurfing ratings. I presume that collaborations in which people know they are successful via tight feedback loops encourage more collaboration. This is simply my assumption. :)

Then we have The Knobs or Spectrums:

  • cooperation – from collective to collaborative (to what degree are people creating/generating through interaction with each other? Is it the number who show up or the output of their engagement with each other? CarrotMobs are about the number (collective) and team sports are about the combined output and interaction (collaborative).
  • granularity – from single output to many outputs that can be added together. A single output could be a logo design or a designed t-shirt… where an additive output is something like Linux – composed of hundreds or even thousands of pieces where individual authorship of the granule still allows for collective production of a larger work.
  • governance – from benevolent dictator to consensus, who manages the collaboration? An individual, a leadership circle, a revolving/evolving group, or full consensus of all involved, etc.
  • field – from commons to market – what does the output create in total? Does it create a market for individuals to succeed (or fail) within or a commons for all to share?

Finally we have The Lights – given the settings of the Knobs and Dials, what can we sense?

  • emergent – does the collaboration create the conditions for emergence? To what degree?
  • creative – does the collaboration enable creative effort or stifle it?
  • quality – does the collaboration produce high quality results/outputs? (by whose definition?)
  • resourceful – does it optimally engage the resources of those collaborating?
  • beneficial – does it create benefits? (one could ask for who?)
  • speed – how long does the collaboration take?
  • adaptable – how able is the collaboration to make adjustments in response to the environtment
  • scalable – can the collaboration expand? to what degree? (not that scaling is always ideal! it isn’t!)

So here are ways I would set the knobs, dials, and lights for Open Source and for a general case of Crowdsourcing such as logo design. How would you adjust it?

Open Source Collaboration

OpensourceS

Crowdsourcing Collaboration

CrowdsourceS

47 Comments for “Collaboration Mixing Board”

  1. 1Jean Russell

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 19:27

    Collaboration Mixing Board: http://bit.ly/9FUlfD image and explanations cc @jhagel @BigOoga @VenessaMiemis @cdgrams #draft1

  2. 2ideahive

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 19:34

    RT @NurtureGirl: Collaboration Mixing Board: http://bit.ly/9FUlfD image and explanations cc @jhagel @BigOoga @VenessaMiemis @cdgrams #draft1

  3. 3umair haque

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 19:38

    a very interesting post about collaboration with a very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  4. 4Cindy Marie Jenkins

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 19:42

    RT @umairh: a very interesting post about collaboration with a very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  5. 5Jason Allen Ashlock

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 19:45

    This is simply fantastic–> RT @umairh: v interesting post a/b collaboration w/ v cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  6. 6Sinan Si Alhir

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 19:57

    RT @umairh: a very interesting post about collaboration with a very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://is.gd/dA0Xu

  7. 7Social DJ

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 21:01

    RT @umairh: a very interesting post about collaboration with a very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  8. 8Michael Batistich

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 21:09

    Great tool and metaphor for collaboration planning – Collaboration Mixing Board by @nuturegirl http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  9. 9Jon Husband

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 21:13

    RT @umairh: a very interesting post about collaboration with a very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  10. 10Nahum Gershon

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 21:27

    RT @umairh: a very interesting post about collaboration with a very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  11. 11RobinLindbeck

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 21:50

    RT @nahumg: RT @umairh: a very interesting post about collaboration with a very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  12. 12Dan

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 22:02

    This is a beautiful metaphor and I like the way the dials, knobs, and lights create an infinite range of mixes, and pick up on the subtleties of cooperation/coordination/collaboration. I’ll have to study this in detail! Great work!

  13. 13DanOestreich

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 22:03

    RT @umairh: a very interesting post about collaboration with a very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  14. 14Bob MacNeal

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 23:29

    @NurtureGirl 's Collaboration Mixing Board. Dials for measurable & adjustable. Sliders for spectrum. http://bit.ly/aknAS8

  15. 15Alessandro Suppini

    wrote on 20 July 2010 at 23:54

    RT @michaelbatistic: Great tool and metaphor for collaboration planning – Collaboration Mixing Board by @nuturegirl http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  16. 16mtnguyen

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 1:37

    Nurture » Collaboration Mixing Board http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  17. 17Mara Bukovska

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 3:08

    RT @umairh: a very interesting post about collaboration with a very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  18. 18jeremy

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 3:11

    A very interesting post about collaboration with a very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  19. 19CapabilityNZ

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 3:11

    A very interesting post about collaboration with a very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  20. 20Mike Westdijk

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 3:32

    RT @umairh: a very interesting post about collaboration with a very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  21. 21Alberto Nardelli

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 5:39

    The 'collaboration mixing board' http://bit.ly/d499Pa – an interesting concept.

  22. 22Betsey Merkel

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 8:11

    Thanks for this! It’s a great way to begin to think about creative balance in performance! I love it!

  23. 23Bernd Nurnberger

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 8:54

    RT @NurtureGirl: Collaboration Mixing Board: http://bit.ly/9FUlfD image and explanations cc @jhagel @BigOoga @VenessaMiemis @cdgrams #draft1

  24. 24Alan Alves Fortes

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 10:29

    RT @umairh: a very interesting post about collaboration with a very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl. http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  25. 25Alison Coward

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 10:30

    RT @AlbertoNardelli: The 'collaboration mixing board' http://bit.ly/d499Pa – an interesting concept.

  26. 26Creative Boom London

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 10:31

    RT @AlbertoNardelli: The 'collaboration mixing board' http://bit.ly/d499Pa – an interesting concept.

  27. 27Seb Paquet

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 10:38

    Dimensions along which to classify cooperation/collaboration endeavors: http://bit.ly/azPTKf #coop #collab

  28. 28Brendan Howley

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 10:56

    Cooperation the new crowdsource? RT @sebpaquet: Dimensions of cooperation/collaboration: http://bit.ly/azPTKf #coop #collab

  29. 29Maureen Argon

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 10:58

    RT @BrendanHowley: Cooperation new crowdsource? RT @sebpaquet: Dimensions of cooperation/collaboration: http://bit.ly/azPTKf #coop #collab

  30. 30Jenny Ambrozek

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 11:16

    RT @ideahive: RT @NurtureGirl: Collaboration Mixing Board: http://bit.ly/9FUlfD image and explanations cc @jhagel @BigOoga @VenessaMiemis @cdgrams #draft1

  31. 31Jenny Ambrozek

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 11:16

    RT @ideahive: RT @NurtureGirl: Collaboration Mixing Board: http://bit.ly/9FUlfD image and explanations cc @jhagel @BigOoga @VenessaMiemi …

  32. 32Jean Russell

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 11:29

    Thank you for http://bit.ly/9FUlfD RT @ideahive @umairh @jasonashlock @SAlhir @SocialDJ @nahumg @BobMacNeal @jbjag #collaboration

  33. 33Tom Graves

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 12:20

    RT @SAlhir: RT @umairh: very interesting post about collaboration with very cool metaphor by @nurturegirl http://is.gd/dA0Xu <also #entarch?

  34. 34Matt Nathan

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 13:23

    .@NurtureGirl offers a useful model – #Collaboration Mixing Board. #socent #cosi10 http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  35. 35KiKi L'Italien

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 14:43

    Bust that kick! Nurture » Collaboration Mixing Board http://bit.ly/9FUlfD #assnchat

  36. 36Ranjani Suresh

    wrote on 21 July 2010 at 15:38

    Nurture » Collaboration Mixing Board http://bit.ly/9FUlfD a very interesting concept!

  37. 37Martin Montero

    wrote on 22 July 2010 at 11:18

    Great #Collaboration Mixing Board by @NurtureGirl a very needed practice in #change work http://j.mp/bamSMO #SocEnt

  38. 38Chris Grams

    wrote on 23 July 2010 at 10:58

    RT @NurtureGirl: Collaboration Mixing Board: http://bit.ly/9FUlfD image and explanations cc @jhagel @BigOoga @VenessaMiemis @cdgrams #draft1

  39. 39New Kind

    wrote on 23 July 2010 at 11:52

    cdgrams: RT @NurtureGirl: Collaboration Mixing Board: http://bit.ly/9FUlfD image and explanations cc @jhagel @BigO… http://bit.ly/94AvR4

  40. 40TheTransitioner

    wrote on 23 July 2010 at 16:20

    RT @NurtureGirl: Collaboration Mixing Board: http://bit.ly/9FUlfD image and explanations Amazing. Not surprisingly from Nurturegirl.

  41. 41Peter Kaminski

    wrote on 23 July 2010 at 16:25

    Nice, Jean! RT @nurturegirl: Collaboration Mixing Board: http://bit.ly/9FUlfD

  42. 42goodmachine

    wrote on 24 July 2010 at 10:04

    Collaboration Mixing Board by @nurturegirl http://bit.ly/dv3KI8

  43. 43Tiffany

    wrote on 25 July 2010 at 19:46

    very cool, Jean! #collaboration mixing-board by @NurtureGirl facilitators community design tool #os #km – http://bit.ly/c6MH48

  44. 44JeanRussell

    wrote on 26 July 2010 at 0:10

    Thank you Dan and Betsy! I would love to hear how you think it can be adjusted to be more useful. I spun it out in an afternoon, and upon reflection I can see some tweaking that can be done. What would you alter?

  45. 45David Hood

    wrote on 30 July 2010 at 18:11

    What elements are needed for #emergence & #thrivability? Check out @nurturegirl's awesome Collaboration Mixing Board http://j.mp/94kULf

  46. 46Luke Grange

    wrote on 30 July 2010 at 18:14

    RT @davidahood What elements are needed for #emergence & #thrivability? @nurturegirl's awesome Collaboration Mixing Board http://j.mp/94kULf

  47. 47Marketing Now!

    wrote on 30 July 2010 at 18:54

    What elements are needed for collaboration and thrivability? Interesting post from @nurturegirl http://j.mp/94kULf via @davidahood

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