Next game - demystifying Web 2.0

After our success with the Digital Challenge card game I'm going to try something similar for social media at a Circuit Rider conference in Birmingham on Monday.

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Circuit Riders provide tech support to voluntary sector organisations too small to have IT staff of their own - and as such can end up covering everything from the hardware and network plumbing to the latest tools. I suspect this can lead to communication problems with non-techies, so hope the game will eventually be a useful addition to their kit. Could be useful for buzz directors, technology stewards and social reporters too.
I shouldn't get too carried away because the version we'll be trying on Monday is a very simple half-hour taster, and part of a session where the bigger attraction is a terrific presentation mainly authored by my US co-presenter Beth Kanter. As well as being an amazingly prolific blogger, trainer and widget fundraiser, Beth excels at researching images people are prepared to share and turning those into the sort of Powerpoint you really want to watch (rather than being a sort of presenter-prompt full of bullet points). Beth's offers some thank-yous here.
Beth and I have never met face-to-face, and it's been a lot of fun putting the session and wiki together wholly online. And now we get to meet. Thanks conference organisers, Lasa and the ICT Hub.
Since Beth has to fly out tomorrow, we've scampered to put everything together in advance - so you can preview the presentation and the game on a social media wiki we are developing.
We know there are too many slides, but we'll have Sunday evening to meet and slim things down. If you are in Birmingham and want to join us, let me know. We'll be at the conference hotel 5ish.