https://amysampleward.org/2009/06/04/playing-the-social-by-social-game-london-net-tuesday/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:56:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://amysampleward.org/2009/06/04/playing-the-social-by-social-game-london-net-tuesday/comment-page-1/#comment-2098 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:56:41 +0000 http://www.amysampleward.org/?p=774#comment-2098 […] element + presentations, group discussions, strategy sessions, or sometimes even games – whatever is a good fit for the […]

]]> https://amysampleward.org/2009/06/04/playing-the-social-by-social-game-london-net-tuesday/comment-page-1/#comment-2081 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:07:31 +0000 http://www.amysampleward.org/?p=774#comment-2081 […] Playing the Social by Social Game From the Net Tuesday event on 2nd June (from Amy Sample Ward) (tags: socialmediagame socialmedia) […]

]]> https://amysampleward.org/2009/06/04/playing-the-social-by-social-game-london-net-tuesday/comment-page-1/#comment-2087 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:47:12 +0000 http://www.amysampleward.org/?p=774#comment-2087 Great article, would love to see it in action. My initial thought was the cards look very tech-heavy and that this might put off a non-techy audience. But, if used in context of additional resources I could see them working very well. In every community meeting I am in, everyone identifies communications as a problem, the fact that people don’t know what other people are doing. I want to stand up and say “there’s LOADS of tools for that! they’re on the internet! they’re free!” but I don’t (often) get given that opportunity. However, if the cards could be used a bit like vouchers that could be taken to a social media surgery or social media volunteers, then you could have identified the need and ‘given’ the solution in mentoring at the same time.
Looking at using the game in a very practical way as well, I think it would be very useful to use blank cards to identify the non-financial resources in the community in quite a solid way, so that as well as divvying up any money you were actually working out how to work on a problem without needing to go to anyone else outside the meeting. This might include time-based tasks like “I will spend five hours helping with the planting”. Again, these would become ‘gifts’ to the project and a reminder to people taking them home what they signed up to.
I often find there is a heavy focus on funding and an assumption that ‘someone’ will be able to solve a problem, which never then happens. In a game, people will might more likely to widen their options by considering things playfully.

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