digital identities, communities & connections: emerging trends
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Digital identity, why and how: for continuing education professionals. Presented to APACUE 11 Spring Forum in PEI May 2011.TRANSCRIPT
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Digital Identities, Connections& Communities: Emerging Trends
APACUE
May 27th, 2011
Bonnie StewartUniversity of Prince Edward Island
In the Open:
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveduarte/3420117809
The times, they are a' Changing
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Directions? Mass collaboration: digital
technologies make cooperation possible & economical
Peer production: creating value without institutions or $ incentive
Architecture of participation: getting people involved with design or production means a ready-made market
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tyom/4257439587/
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Implications for Open & Distance Learning and Continuing Education?
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Economic Social
Educational
?
21st Century Convergence
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The Creative Economy
“Members of the creative class...work in a wide variety of industries - from technology to entertainment, journalism to finance, high-end manufacturing to the arts. They...share a common ethos that values creativity, individuality, difference, and merit.”
- Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, 2003
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
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This is not about online learning.
This is about effective communications
aseffective community-building.
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This is also not about Facebook.(except for groups & pages)
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Instead of becoming a separate cyberspace, our electronic networks are becoming deeply embedded in real life.
Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, p.196.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/choconancy/5387563119/
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Social = Networks & Connectedness
Erica Marshall of muddyboots.org
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Connecting is Sharing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/sizes/z/in/photostream/
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Digital Identity:The 'face' one wears and
the voice one speaks with.
Cumulative.
Searchable.
Continually interacted with and reflected by others.
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Your identity is public, whether you like it or not.Your identity is public, whether you like it or not.Own it.Own it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/2191408271/sizes/z/in/photostream/
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Lesson #1: Be human
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Lesson #2: Use your strengths
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44523343@N00/474411578/
Effective networking is about literacies, not technologies.
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Past networks were local
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Now they are global
Greater amplification Greater reach
Greater unpredictability
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But. Existing connections are your most
valuable asset.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/1344619788/
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Lesson #3: start now
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniloramosweb/3854330282/
Digital Identity allows you to participate in a participatory economy.
But networks & communities don't build themselves.
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Bonnie Stewart, @bonstewart
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What do you have to gain?