The Green dots

The green dots is a lovely metaphor that was introduced at HIMC. It basically describes the people and resources in your organisation or network, who can connect you to new insights and and understanding of things. Either because they are the experts or because they just jumped in first and have experience.

Green dot Monica presenting her Tweetdeck

In our organisation new Green dots have been turned on during the last couple of weeks. One example is Monica, who took up the challenge of giving a basic crash course in Twitter. I think most off us see the potential and have been motivated to get started. But how does retweets, hashtags and the rest really work?



If you are interested, see Monicas presentation here:
http://prezi.com/ekaizrffxfpu/twitter-101/
I promised Monica to tell that the presentation will be up-dated with examples and more explanation.

Mette Stuhr already did a twitter course two weeks ago with the first HIMC team. In my mind Mette had already established herself as a Green dot through her skills. And thats the interesting part right now, the Green dots are currently just being established by themselves. They are not promoted or established through official structures. It's about initiatives combined with the openness from all the colleagues searching for knowledge and thereby Green dots.

From a management perspective it's amazing to see people in the organisation flourish and add even more value. Another example is Chris, who gave an introduction to open API's (Application Programming Interface), building on the understanding we already got in Karlskrona. API's are something that can be a barrier because you don't get it, suddenly it becomes an opportunity. And the entire organisation knows exactly who to invite if they want to create a solution for clients based on existing API's.

Flightradar24 built on Google maps using flight data to show all planes in a region. It really fascinates me to see all the planes moving real-time with flight numbers and everything - and I could be in one of them:-) http://www.flightradar24.com/

Chris is now a Green dot as well and we have many more in the house, also Green dots that have existed for long.

When you establish this metaphor I think everybody is looking at the organisation with a new perspective and a lot of employees will be having a much more interesting workplace, because they can suddenly reach out and see new opportunities. And I'm wondering: where is the next Green dot? It's probably already there waiting to be turned on.