"Scratch Your VRM Itch"

 

All day meeting on Tuesday April 15th 2008

 

This is was an all day meeting on Tuesday April 15th, the theme is VRM and how it addresses (and hopefully redresses) the imbalance between individuals and their relationships with vendors, companies or institutions.

 

An initial draft set of notes from this conference is Scratch Your VRM Itch - conference notes (v 0 1). Attendees please feel free to edit for accuracy!

 

The agenda will be set by attendees starting from why VRM appeals to you, where you see it going and how. Bring your assumptions, understanding and ideas to the table where others can examine it, challenge it, improve it or help you take them further.

 

Technical issues can be discussed although for focus on specifics I find smaller gatherings, more productive (so watch this space for ‘hacker sessions‘ announcements). This meeting will be more about what VRM can do for you as well as what you can do for VRM.

 

I envisage working in groups or all together depending on the situation and have chosen the venue to fit that purpose. Limit is about 35 people as greater numbers (especially in one room) become unwieldy and hard to focus on specific issues.

 

Date and time:

April 15th 2008, Tuesday, from about 9.30 to 5pm

 

Venue:

Central London - October gallery near Holborn, Club room with sofas, large table and chairs, wi-fi, flipchart, lunch and refreshments during coffee/tea breaks.

 

Agenda:

 

9.30am - coffee/tea mingling, set the agenda for the day (see below the list of attendees)

 

12.30 - lunch in the October Gallery cafeteria (not as bad as it sounds, it's a lovely place).

 

5pm - time to leave

 

 

Price:

The recommended amount is £40 to cover the room hire, lunch and tea & coffee. Many thanks to Paul Doleman of iCrossing for his generous support, for subsidising the tickets so they could be reduced from £50 to £40 each. Any surplus will go towards the monthly VRM Hub meetings.

 

 

 

Who this is for:

Been following VRM for a while, given it some thoughts, want to be part of it, wondered how to make it work, wondered where the money is, how to get businesses involved, how to build tools and applications, have it all worked out and want others to know, in short, have a VRM itch to scratch. :).

 

 

Who this is not for:

Heard about VRM, interested or intrigued, would like to know more but haven't really thought much about it. Join us at VRM Hub meetings where you can imbibe VRM with drinks and informal chat.

 

Sign up for "Scratch your VRM itch" April 15 2008 meeting:

to add your name below, click 'edit page', fill in invite key 'projectvrm'.

 

1. Adriana Lukas 
2. Paul Doleman
3. Rebecca Caroe
4. Paul Hodgson
5. Graham Sadd
6. Alan Mitchell
7. David Cushman
8. Mark Earls
9. Iain Henderson
10. Philip Sheldrake
11. Peter Murton - CTO PAOGA
12. David Stobs-Stobart
13. Nilhan Jayasinghe
14. Alexander Grünsteidl - dwb
15. David Man
16. Chris Osborne

 

 

Agenda:

 

The only agenda is going to be the one we set ourselves. Below is space for 'booking' time and our attention of others in the meeting. If necessary suggest links we might want to check out or upload a document that will help us understand faster on the day (be merciful with the amount of any material).

 

Claim your time/slot to discuss your VRM idea, proposition, application, floorwax etc. Recommended time 20-30 minutes, with discussions branching and revisiting topics as needed, e.g. technical issues, business perspectives, connections, networking etc. There will be time and space for all of that, whilst respecting other people's ideas and attention.

 

You don't need to 'reserve' a slot now, if you don't feel like it. We will do that at the start of the day so we have an idea of the flow and what to expect the day.

 

Adriana:

• take charge of my data, reclaim my 'digitial detritus' - what's in it for users, what's in it for vendors
• 'design' principles that can help people develop VRM applications and uses/use cases
• Mine! and FeedMe - what's next, open source project status - VRM NEA foundation

 

 

Peter Murton & Graham Sadd:

• First showing of My Sorting Office - a VRM app from PAOGA which allows individuals to 'invite' responses to their 'wants & needs'
• Anonimity can be maintained using multiple generated email addresses reserved for specific vendors
• We are looking for constructive feedback and input
• Bring your laptops with wifi so that we can get you to signup on the day.

 

Alexander Grünsteidl

I will offer to provide some shared tools to capture our insights for Tuesday’s workshop. I hope that we come up with a useful development framework, or add to or comment on, existing development frameworks for VRM. This is really to address in a more shared language the technical, business and design requirement to successfully implement VRM.

 

• We will have a place to collect remarks and ideas to be addressed at different times during the meeting so we can keep our thoughts flowing.

 

• One of the main aspects I am interested to get out of the workshop is a shared sense of how VRM will be deployed over time e.g. What is there Now, Soon (by the end of the year), Later (coming years), Future (if we could dream ahead 10 years)?

 

• I am eager to establish a set of functionality requirements, for VRM to work, based on use cases. Then assess these according to Frequency of Use by the end-user and Importance to VRM (if you perceive it as a service product) to work. (building on**** Adriana's design principles)

 

• Another aspect we should talk about is the active or passive aspect of these functions as part of the user experience.

 

• This will allow us to define shared sense of the most minimal set of elements that create a successful VRM user experience. This is the foundation to introduce VRM and build / evolve further applications over time.

 

• The outcome of this will allow us to create a user experience journey, which we can translate into a range of engaging (illustrated) scenarios and hopefully prototypes.

 

Please bring a medium sized, black felt-tip pen and your own pack of possibly yellow Post-It notes.

 

Next! :)

 

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