facilitating ongoing conversation

Peskin is kind of wrapping things up:

“We’ve got technology here, we’ve got media, and within media we’ve got a lot of variety. Not competing, but looking at things in very different ways.”

“Bringing people together…tap into the collective intellect…I think we’re getting somewhere.”

“We need to carry this conversation much further…continue pushing the dialog.”

“We’re here to help push companies in directions that ultimately create benefits for society.”

The real point of all this:

“We here in this room need to contiune the idea-sharing and brainstorming that we started. The point was not just to compile a bunch of random thoughts and big ideas…I really don’t want things to fester.”

“We need to turn ideas into an opportunity, then into an opportunity document, then into a business plan, then into a company.”

“We’re going to create away teams to formally continue the effort that started yesterday…Take on the technology & infrastructure issues, the society issues, the individual issues, internal leadership, operations & workflow.”

Then, he outlined the assignment for the volunteer away teams. It sounded eerily like homework. “It’s not intended to be a substantial time commitment,” of course.

“We don’t want the post-conference dissipation of ideas to happen.” On March 24th, there’s going to be a webcast conference call thing. Sounds like a good idea.

Susan reminds everyone that “the blog is a secondary place to talk.” Log in and post!