Collaborate 2010!

Hello Everyone!!

Hope everyone's having a great new year. For those who are not aware, 2 of our zanies are now daddies!! So, a big round of congratulations to both naagpal and shreel!! In the meanwhile, some our followers have tied the knots - so best wishes to them as well!!

I truly regret not contributing here since beginning - which essentially was a result of great deal of direction-lessness within! I still remember the discussion at QBA with Mayank, Shreel, Abhimanyu, Varun and Rohit to kickstart this and yet I had no direction within me - of what/how I would contribute here, what/how I would seek for contribution here? We tried making an outstation trip, a visit to an NGO, 4 weeks of get togethers, a photography session! All with some success.
But, did we get constrained by the element of space & time? Or did we get constrained because by not articulating clearly reasons for being part of this network? This dilemma and the ensuing lack of commitment prevented me blogging here!!

But here's sharing with you some of the thoughts that have been in my mind since past 4 weeks. Give this a read: http://virtualsafari.blogspot.com/2010/01/collaborate-2010.html

To set up the above thoughts into action, How about an idea to collaborate to create a audio-visual on school – a scripted medley of photographs, comments on them, podcasts, along with voiceovers, music. Let’s rope in alumni from any part of the world, from various professions and batches to contribute, collaborate and put together the final piece. And yes, this needn’t be a single team exercise but could actually involve multiple teams putting together multiple AV on the school.

Some key expectations from this experiment.

1. The larger chunk of this should be carried out to online. Yes, this is a social experiment to test the possibilities.
2. We would surely need to use something like google wave to put this all together. Set up the timelines for ideation, brainstorming, moderating the content. Setting up the teams working on content – textual, visual, audio, script!

The AVs are to be prepared online and then could be beamed across to everyone on the network. In fact, Let’s take this to school this Annual day to set the them for next 5 years – Collaboration!!

Let’s get on and start the collaborative journey!! What say?
~S