Naked Conversations

Eventually I got my copies of Naked Conversations.

Yes, its six copies that I ordered. You may wonder why I did this- 6 copies ??

Let me give you a backgrounder on my thoughts. During the time Robert and Shel were blogging about Naked Converstaions, I was pretty much at times an active participant, and at other times a passive participant.

All along, I had this gut feeling that something new was emerging here. It was just not another book. The whole process took them approx  year and half from start to finish, before orders were finally shipped.

Oh, I think I was the first person to get my order in Canada. :)-

Anyhow, one fine day when I was mediating in my Tai Chi Room, something happened in my brain and I found myself the question "what am I doing to advocate to my peer group on whats happening 'out there', how can I get them on the same page, as they are not technology oriented people". Thats when the fancy idea come to my, to create a mini working group for future strategies and use Naked Converstions as the primer to jump start this process.

So the remaining 5 books, will be distributed to 5 core members. Across the next 10 months, this is my 10 step action plan for this group.

1. Read the book, end to end
2. Create a blogline Account and subsrcibe to a mininmum of 10 Feeds on any subject of thier choice and only be a silent reader.
3. Participant on thier selected Blogs via posting of comments and becoming part of the community around thier chosen sites/blogs.
4. Reality Check - Experience story telling @ month 3. Each particpate will bring to the table their own experinces.
5. Create their own Blogs on msnspace or Blogger. Each member subscribes to the other and create our own mini community.
6. Monitor the Quility of posting and content of each other and begin a discourse amongst ourselves.
7. Identity areas  within the Business house, where this type of conversations (blog) needs to be created or can happen.
8. Create a shared vision for a strategic plateau.
9. Create a business Plan for the SBU right down into 2010, inclusive of TOC,ROI Trustmodeling, etc etc.
10. Dec/06 - Present overall action plan for an inital inernal Blog strategy for the Business unit and obtain (hopefully) Executive Buy in.

Really not sure how this will play out. Or even, if the 5 members will have a passion and dedication to complete this long hual plan.

The primer for this group to introduce them to naked converstaion is in a powerpoint present .Download nakeconversations.ppt

Please take time to go through my  presentation. I welcome feedback and ideas. My count down to to unfolding the strategy is going to be  Feb 16th/06.

...and Wish me luck :)-

Comments

[Andy]

I started reading the book a week or so ago with similar thoughts in mind. I wanted it as a backgrounder to give me information that might help spread the word about blogging in a work environment that is not tech savvy.

So I know what you're talking about when you refer to getting your colleagues "on the same page." I hope you blog the process and reaction to the group's work. I think it might provide interesting insights.

[/pd]

Andy, yes as this unfolds I"ll be posting the experinces. I created a seperate catogory called as nakeconversations just for this reason !!

[Andy]

Cool. Thanks. I subscribed to your feed so I can check in from time to time.