reboot7: Dina Mehta

Notes from Dina Methas speech; Social tools for research & collaboration

• We need tools that enable us to forget physical borders
• Social tools foster collaboration and community
• The tools allowed the Internet community to broadcast real voices, real stories, real emotions in realtime from the Tsunami areas.
  • Cooperation
  • Interdependence on each other
  • A decentralized self-organizing system
• Social tools is the natural extension of rapid adoptation to chaotic conditions.

Communication and information flows

• Skype
• Yahoo Messenger
• Blogger
• Flickr

You dont need researchers anymore

• The subject is the research
• The users provide data themselves
• Let them do the talking, be a fly on the wall and observe

Pitching corporate blogs

• More dialogue: more jazz
• learning journey

=> “We just forget boundaries exist”

Summing up

• Social tools melt cultural boundaries
• People pick up tools to meet human needs.
• It’s all about creating empathies!