Session 1: Leaders in a Connected Age

Miriam's Intro:

Why we’re here:

We are leaders living in a connected age.

What are the implications of this? That's exactly what we'll explore in these meetings.

Motivations for initiating/hosting this:

• critical piece of being a networked organization is fluency with these tools
• important to open up the conversation with staff, get feedback, learn with and from one another
• capacity-raising, help us all get a little more tech-savvy
• opportunity to get reps from different departments together around shared idea

What’s with the name?
Open Office Hours 3.0 is intended to imply:

• drop-in style meetings - no expectation that this will be an ongoing group/network
• flexible subject matter
• but what about the 3.0?

Explanation/discussion of Web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0
1.0: static web - the democratization of information
2.0: social web - the democratization of participation
3.0: mobile web - more ubiquitous, harder to see, more integrated


Main activity:
We watched “The Machine is Using Us”


What does this have to do with leadership?

• Ideas of form and function
• Content creation and content curation
• Interconnectedness/Linking
• Access vs. Ownership
• Collaboration
• others?

...these are precisely the concepts we need to be thinking about when it comes to leadership in the 21st Century.


There is an inextricable link between the way the Web is built, the way it looks, and how we can interact with it. In our coming sessions, we’ll talk about the point-and-click how-to-ness of the Web, but we’ll also address these bigger issues and the implications of the connected age on our work.


If you attended the session, please leave your reflections here or comment on the blog.


The next session's general topic will be concepts of access vs. ownership. Date/time forthcoming.