Wired Discovery: New Conversations and Deeper Connections
Editor: Loretta L. Donovan , Gabriel Shirley , Sue Anderson Derby
AI Practitioner
Date: 05/01/2008
Pages: 47
Annotation: What You Will Find in This Issue
For a few daring AI practitioners, the touch-points of meaningful inquiry in a wired world have inspired exploration with new digital tools and schemes. We have selected an array of articles that feature their experiences and highlight distinctive AI cases from North America and Europe.
In ‘New Models of Appreciative Inquiry in the Digital Age’, Lindsey Godwin and Soren Kaplan suggest four models of technology integration that they have observed in a variety of AI processes. You will learn about their vision for how the underlying tools and principles of these models will continue to contribute to the future of the field.
The need to fulfill the US Department of Homeland Security’s mandate for disaster preparedness propelled Anne Drabczyk’s AI-based leadership development program to incorporate video-on-demand (vodcast) technology. Read ‘Digital Dialogues: Enriched Discovery For A Leadership Development Cohort’ for the story of how she and participating community leaders expanded the reach of her program, and then login to see the results of their efforts.
Carol Richmond’s case ‘Using Technology: An Appreciative Paradigm of Learning in Online Courses’ describes the ways in which online course features, email and cell phones were used to collect stories and themes for a research study.
‘Meaning Making in Real Time: Igniting Fire Over the Wire’ highlights the imperative for the emerging use of technology in the nonprofit sector. Authors Roselyn Kay, Tony Silbert and David Styers give us a birds-eye view of how 360 centers mobilizing millions of volunteers used synchronous web conferencing technology to create highly energizing and engaging provocative propositions and a powerful new vision statement.
The compelling issues of saving lives in Saskatchewan, Canada come alive in Jeanette Aschenbrenner’s piece ‘Healthcare Seeks to Enhance the Power of Story Through On-line Appreciative Inquiry Interviews’. She demonstrates how AI and technology support both the qualitative and quantitative data analysis needs that are the norm in hospital administration.
Online collaboration also plays an important role in launching and sustaining a large and growing community of AI practitioners IN Europe. This is underscored as Leif Josefsson and Lena Holmberg tell the story and illustrate the online tools in ‘Using the Web to Support Organic Development of the European AI Network’.
The groundbreaking nature of embedding technology in AI becomes clear in Pascal Kaplan’s ‘Expanding the Reach of the Appreciative Inquiry Summit with Collaborative Technology’. He describes projects that have ranged from enabling thousands of participants to take part in asynchronous online AI experiences from World Vision, to more recent synchronous online and real-time AI in a project initiated by the American Society of Association Executives.
Where will the shift in the search for the positive core take us next? Gabriel Shirley suggests that it may be taking ‘crowdsourcing’, a term coined in Wired magazine, to a new application in social collaboration. ‘CrowdSourcing: Self-organized Discovery through Chaordic Organization’ features prospects for supporting collective wisdom in scalable digital story gathering.
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