Nancy White gave a great presentation about people and the interaction with the blogosphere at Moose Camp. Here are the notes that I took.

Roles in Network:
Filters
Amplifiers
Conveners
Facilitators
Investors
Community builders

Skills for learning with others:
Listen, Fliter (search, Tag, bookmark) annotate, blog
Be unkonwing
REciprocate

Facilitation for:
Relationshiop
Identity/REputation
presence
Flow

Facilitation skills:
the Classics
Informed by ICT
Space Holding
Improvisational
Creatively Abrasive (Leonard)

Shouting doesn't work online the way it does face to face

Convening Conversations:
Invite
Name the Question
Initiate
Design for local choice
Nurture

Art of the Invitation critical compencay:

Intercultural antennae
Broadly defined
"default" culture
Heart variations
Biggest Challenge?

Intercultural skills:
look...read
live/work/play
Fala! (speak)
Bridge

Tolerance for Ambiguity:
OK with 'not in control', not knowing
Move forward without certainty.

Ability to switch contexts:
Multi-membership mavens
connectors
Networkers
multiple perspectives
Outsiderness

The struggle is the solution:
See the reality in the current situation
Grieve the cost for what exists now
Treat the conversation as action.

There are two ways of spreading the light:
To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.