Smart Connected Communities Institute

September 2010
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Jill Hundley-Keefer

S+CC Institute launched a new collaborative feature to the portal. You have probably noticed the content type Video on all sector pages.  This engaging new tool allows you to upload any type of video…. and my favorite part, it also allows you to create your own video.  We hope to implement some video contests and video submissions where you record your own 2-minute video in response to a question or idea.

 

Don’t wait! Upload a video or create your own, sitting at your desk, in your office, wherever by sharing your ideas on Smart Cities and Sustainable Urbanization.

 

I will walk you through a quick tutorial on how to use the new tool.

 

There are several ways to view, upload and create videos.

 

Homepage

 

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Sectors/Left Navigation

 

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To Create or Upload a Video, Click on “Create a Video”

 

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Now the fun part, click “Browse” to upload a video from your computer, then click on “Upload” to finish the process.

 

To create a video, hook up your webcam or use your computers camera and click on “Record from webcam”.

 

 

The next part is to title the video, type a description and tags so others can find your video on keyword searches.

 

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After your video is uploaded or created, make sure to click on “Publish” at the bottom of the page. This will start the encoding process and publish your video to the community.

 

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Give me your feedback on the new tool. Is it easy to use? Does it play your videos well? Respond to a discussion forum question by recording your response on video!

 

Look for upcoming video submissions and contests!

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Jill Hundley-Keefer

If any of you live near or in the Austin, Texas area, I will be speaking at the NARC Executive Directors conference September 30.  The conference is for city executive directors, senior staff and deputies who are interested in networking with colleagues, sharing best practices in management, programs,  finance, budget, governance and hearing several experts present on these topics.

 

I will present "How to Create and Maintain Collaborative Communities: Communities of Practice":

  • Learn how to make your teams more efficient and productive with Communities of Practice. Hear from a Cisco Systems representative and learn from real-world examples of how organizations are using Communities of Practice to drive to solutions. Experience innovative collaboration tools and see them in action on the Smart+Connected Communities Institute, an online community that will connect you to the world conversation about sustainable urbanization. This session will include time for discussion amongst attendees and presenters alike, providing an opportunity for immediate idea-sharing.  discuss next steps to creating your own Communities of Practice within your regions.

 

I hope to launch Communities of Practice here on this site as well.  The idea is to facilitate conversations or projects with small working groups about urban sustainability and implementation. I say "working" because these group do something. They drive toward learning, collaborating on innovation, or working together on a project. These working groups could be a based on industry, job title- CIOs, System Integrators, Mayors, Urban Planners, or it can based on a city project, say a city is implementing smart transportation or measuring energy use.  We can use these groups to learn from each other, implement sustainable solutions, highlight subject matter experts and more.

 

In a former life, really it was just a few years ago but it seems like a long time ago, I launched communities of practice inside corporations to help with collaboration and to drive productivity and effectiveness.  It is a nice tool. And... as the Austin conference attendees will learn, I am a meeting stickler.  I think we have all attended "empty" meetings with no direction or substance, and we question the time spent for the team.  Communities of Practice (term coined by Etienne Wenger at Harvard) will help eliminate those meetings and drive to solutions, learn from others in a structured format with scheduled agendas...and some times a follow up of action items.

 

If you are interested in participating in these groups or offering your city as a project group, comment below or e-mail me.

 

 

 

The National Association of Regional Councils is offering their Executive Directors' Conference and Regional Metropolitan and Urban Policy Forum September 27-30 in Austin, Texas.

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Jill Hundley-Keefer

Welcome to the new S+CC Institute blog. In this blog, I will keep you up-to-date with news and information regarding smart, future cities.  You will also meet the online community members who are working on projects to move their cities to be economically, environmentally and socially sustainable. Read and debate industry papers and articles, learn of events and more.

 

The whole time we will explore exactly what does it mean to be a smart city, how do you implement, how do you measure energy, plan a sustainable and usable city for your citizens and much more.  Seems like there is a lot of differing views, ideas and implementation practices. What is working? What is not working? What needs to change or develop? How does technology and ICT play a role?

 

In addition, I will let you know what is new or evolving in this collaborative space, how to use the tools to your benefit, and I will highlight the site activity.

 

Let me do the heavy lifting for you, click on the "Receive Email Notifications" in the Actions menu, right column, top.  This will send you an e-mail every time there is a new post so you can quickly scan and read the new information.  IF you need your login information...send me an e-mail and I will find it for you. To contact the online community manager, email Community Manager Jill Keefer.

 

 

Interesting Discussion Forum Threads:

$21 Billion Appropriated For Healthcare Information Systems

Smarter Building Construction and Design

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