Audio trailer | online documentary
July 1, 2006
The following audio trailer was prepared by Warren Crosbie’s for his ‘online documentary’ project, an assessable part of the transient spaces subject at RMIT.
Melbourne_forum (3 minutes, 3 MB) a documentary on professional forums in Melbourne: http://users.tpg.com.au/wcrosbie/audio/Melbourne_forum.mp3
For the documentary I interviewed several members of CM Pros Australia and others with an interest in professional forums. Participants were Chris Prince, Con Zymaris, David Gurr, David Warwick, Deborah Weiss, Howard Sachs, Luke Hoban, Melenie Kendall and Peter Christo. All interviews were recorded in April and May, 2006.
Thank you to all contributors. For more information on any of the interviewees, please click on one of the categories on the home pages of this blog.
David Warwick (CM Pros Australia co-chair)
June 30, 2006
David Warwick is director of Komodo CMS, a Melbourne based Web content management vendor.David explains his role as co-chair, and a little bit about the history of CM Pros Australia in this interview (7 minutes, 6MB): http://users.tpg.com.au/wcrosbie/audio/David_Warwick.mp3
Peter Christo (Podmatcher.com)
June 20, 2006
Peter Christo interview part 1 (9 minutes, 9 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Peter_Christo_1of2.mp3
Peter Christo interview part 2 (9 minutes, 9 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Peter_Christo_2of2.mp3
Peter Christo is a business consultant, internet entrepreneur and commercialisation consultant based in Melbourne Australia. After completing his university studies, he worked with Hewlett-Packard and then spent the next 12 years primarily in Internet based ventures, which included a range of web projects in San Francisco USA in the late 90’s and the Cyberpreneures of Melbourne between 1998 and 2001. Peter spoke on the topic of Internet Business in the 1996 Australian APEC Forum, and has been quoted in a number of eminent publications. Peter recently completed the Master of Entrepreneurship & Innovation (MIE) at Swinburne University of Technology (SUT), and undertakes sessional lecturing work on entrepreneurship. Peter is currently developing a web based business and social networking venture called Podmatcher.com You can find out more about Peter via x2o.com.au, or his blog at blog.x2o.com.au
About Podmatcher.com
Podmatcher.com is a web-based service that makes communities of practice, (CoPs or what we call Pods) knowledge or business networks, and clusters or consortia, visible to stakeholders. (From podmatcher.x2o.com.au June 8, 2006)
David Gurr (Univerisity of Melbourne)
June 6, 2006
Interview with David Gurr (8 minutes, 8 MB): http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/David_Gurr.mp3
David Gurr is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Centre for Organizational Learning and Leadership, at the University of Melbourne, and also Vice-President (Publications and Research), Australian Council for Educational Leaders. For more on David see his staff profile at: edfac.unimelb.edu.au/lol/coll/staff/gurr.html
References
Avolio, B. J., & Dodge, G. E. (2000). E-leadership: Implications for theory, research, and practice. Leadership Quarterly, 11.
Gurr, D. (2006). E-leadership. In S. Dasgupta (Ed.), Encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies (pp. 161-165). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference.
Chris Prince (Wave & Avalon)
June 5, 2006
Audio interview (3 minutes, 1.3 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Chris_Prince.mp3
Chris Prince is Founder and CEO at Wave Business; Co-Founder and CEO at Avalon Software.
Luke Hoban & Melanie Kendell (emorphus)
May 28, 2006
Listen to Melanie and Luke via http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Melanie_and_Luke.mp3 (3 minutes, 3MB).
Melanie is an experience technical writer, communicator, and trainer.
Luke is a straight talker. He says he's interested in content creation, as opposed to content management.
Luke has qualifications in IT and Marketing and studied for his MBA at Monash University. Melanie and Luke are a founding member of the emorphus consultancy (emorphus.com.au)
Melanie and Luke are CM Pros Australia participants, based in Melbourne.
Con Zymaris (Cybersource & OSV)
May 28, 2006
Con Zymaris is from Cybersource, in Melbourne (cybersource.com.au). Con is a skilled communicator with an intesting take on the role of audio for busy people who use the Internet and regularly enjoy listining to audio:
I’ve found audio to be a very rich medium for idea expression and dissemination, moreso than video and more accessible than text, particularly for busy people.
In his interview, Con talks about ‘benign dictators’ and their role in the community process of leading volunteers who develop open source software. The interview is 16 minutes long (13 MB): http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Con_Zymaris.mp3
He also speaks of ‘interleaved discussions’ and the inportant role played by Donna Benjamin in helping to facilitate breakfast meetings, co-located via the Internet.
To see a picture of Con Zymaris, in downtown Melbourne, go to http://www.cybersource.com.au/users/conz/photos/p1010018.jpg [900 KB]
Howard Sachs (iFocus)
May 28, 2006
Howard Sachs is an information architect and senior consultant at iFocus, an e-Business solutions company, headquartered in Melbourne.
In this interview Howard discusses information architecture, business portals, and his interest in content management (12 minutes, 5.7 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Howard_Sachs.mp3
Howard presents at conferences on, for example, the business case for portal implementation and the key steps and considerations for a successful portal implementation. Howard's online writings include: Only fools rush in: five steps for success in government portal projects
Deborah Weiss (Gartner, Melbourne)
May 28, 2006
Deborah Weiss is Research Director, Enterprise Architecture, at Gartner in Melboure.
Deborah presented, for example, at the 2005 Gartner ITxpo. Deborah's bio says she "specializes in Enterprise Architecture, Business and IT Alignment and Strategic Planning."
Deborah's interview suggests many communities of highly technical IT experts use a miss-mash of online tools, and that their online environments are more average than you might expect.
[Interview coming soon.]
Background to audio documentary
May 1, 2006
Nancy Dixon and her colleagues in their book on the US Army’s CommpanyCommand online forum define ‘topic leads’ as the:
members [of an online professional forum] who take responsibility for particular topic areas within [the forum]. They manage and facilitate the main topics of the forum, [for example]: leadership [and] training, [strategy, logistics, human resource management, and family/work balance]. (2005, p.4)
In making this documentary I have drawn on Dixon, et al. (2005) theoretical work, as well as some ideas from the associated communities of practice (CoPs) literature. I interviewed several leaders in the field of online professional forums, open source technology and information and enterprise architecture.
I intended to focus on leadership and community; David Gurr speaks about 'e-leadership'; several others speak about community, and the value of face to face meetings. I hoped to include several edited audio-interviews recorded ‘in the field’ with leaders in Melbourne. I had in mind some leaders who are prolific bloggers, as well as renowned experts in their field.
My aim, in recording several interviews, was to see if what I appreciate about the richness of radio (for example Phillip Adams on lnl – ABC's Radio National) can be replicated in a blog/audio-documentary.
Structure and scope: I intended to keep is simple – minium html; simple links to short audio files (e.g. mp3); links to relevant community forums, books and online resources. Because I need to get participants to sign a media ‘release’ I chose Melbourne-based participants.
Who? Members and leaders from the following communities:
- CM Pros (Australia), (see CMPros Australia Community – via Komodo CMS, cmprofessionals.org – in the USA, or visit the CM Pros Australia mailing list)
- Open Source Vic (osv)/OSIAA (Con Zymaris)
- An academic from a university who leads a masters in knowledge management (KM) (David Gurr)
- ACT-km (not achieved)
- Other Melbourne based consultants in km, or content management.
Steps:
- Draft of questions to explore; block out draft structure for the doco [completed April, 2006]
- Seek indication of interest from ‘talent’ who are available (esp. in April 2006) and willing to sign the media release [completed April, May 2006]
- Conduct interviews [completed May 8, 2006]
- Test audio-editing technologies, etc.
- Create pages and link to audio files [in progress]
