Lastnite at my new haus the members of Little Berlin Gallery gathered to sit and brainstorm about taking their collaborative efforts online. The collective has seen great success in its first few years, and with the new members (myself being one of them) added to the mix there is a new inertia within the group. It’s moving towards getting shit mad organized.
With a giant sketch pad hung on the wall, and some geeky ass monitor set-up, I began to introduce the concept of a project management tool to the collective members – none of them had ever seem or used such a tool, with the exception of one member, who used a case tracking tool in an academic setting when her department’s website was being rebuilt. Obvious overlap occurs with communication tools like Facebook, so the idea was very accessible to everyone, they had just never been directly exposed to the idea of using a tool like this to help them do what they do so well – collaborate to create.
Much to my surprise, they were completely bought-in to taking the thus far completely organic, democratic, oftentimes chaotic collaboration process onto a more structured platform. Read More
