How to experience Jellyweek — locally and globally

Preparing for Jellyweek is like taking preparations for a journey. It’s time for a quick check-up wether all essential things are in your suitcase. Then our common glocal collaboration trip can get started, wherever we are. How exciting!


LET’S JELLY LOCALLY

It’s amazing, how many beautiful, enormous and spontaneous events are organized by around 200 hosts from 37 countries in 6 continents, numbers still growing. You can see all locations with event descriptions on the

—-> JELLYWEEK MAP

All these local events are made for the local communities. You have to be there to experience the happenings and people for real. The virtual connection can’t substitute this.


SURFING THE JELLYWEEK

By the way: It will be difficult to get an overview about everything during Jellyweek because of the full amount of activities worldwide. It will be a huge wave. So it’s great to ride the event as a surfer. Follow your interest, your passion. Follow the streams of communication. Connect-up with people, topics, communities and countries you feel attracted to. Amazing stories will develop. That’s for sure.

LET’S JELLY GLOBALLY

Thanks to social media we can build relationships on global scale. And we can experience each other in the virtual sphere. Unbelievable, but true. Let’s do the unbelieveable.

To get in touch with each other while being at different places there will be video conferences on google+, so-called hangouts. And some hosts will provide livestreams, where we can follow events from far away. And there will be collaborations and partnerships between jellies. And there will be global events to initiate activities happening simultaneously all over the world.


GLOBAL INTERACTION CALENDAR

If you plan global interactions, you can put a small entry in the following editable documents. They are the calendar for global interaction during Jellyweek. Please use this containers only for global activities, not for the local events. The local events can be seen on the map and are promoted locally. Will your global interaction be on a single day, please put your entry in one of these documents:

—-> MONDAY 14TH       
—-> TUESDAY 15TH        
—-> WEDNESDAY 16TH
—-> THURSDAY 17TH     
—-> FRIDAY 18TH           
—-> SATURDAY 19TH
—-> SUNDAY 20TH

If it’s a more general activity or an event running the whole week, please put it here:

—-> THE WHOLE WEEK

Let’s see, which kind of cocreative global interaction plan we can build together.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST: JELLYWEEK’S SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS

Some channels are really required for your Jellyweek journey, some are nice to have. You are the traveller, who chooses the right means for your individual collaboration journey.


Here a brief overview:

—-> FACEBOOK GROUP as main communication channel
—-> FACEBOOK FANPAGE for following the recent news
—-> FACEBOOK EVENT for inviting your crowd
—-> GOOGLE+ COMMUNITY as gathering point for google+ hangouts
—-> TWITTERWALL for an overview about #jellyweek tweets
—-> TWITTER ACCOUNT for enjoying fresh tweets
—-> FLICKR GROUP for uploading pictures of your jelly event
—-> YOUTUBE CHANNEL where your videos can be listed
—-> PIC BADGE for your profile picture
—-> WORLDTIMEBUDDY for organizing your meetings worldwide

FINALLY: UNCOMPLETE PRESS REVIEW

At the end thanks for the great articles of 

—-> OUISHARE
—-> DESKWANTED
—-> SHAREABLE
—-> MOVEBLA
—-> DESKMAG

Thanks for accompanying our journey until today with your reports and support.

SO: 
LET’S START THE JELLY JOURNEY! 
LOCALLY, GLOBALLY, GLOCALLY!
NOW!

Weaving a glocal net of collaboration

JELLYWEEK 2013 IS OPEN FOR REGISTRATIONS


It’s exciting and a new beginning. You can register to the next WORLDWIDE JELLYWEEK, which takes place from 14th to 20th January 2013 all over the world. Everybody, who likes to explore collaboration with his local community and who wishes to connect with collaborative people from all over the world is invited to join the adventure.

In the last WORLDWIDE JELLYWEEK in January 2012 there were 223 jellies hosted in 35 countries in 6 continents including Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, Columbia, Egypt, Kenia, Singapore, Kasachstan, USA and most of the European countries. It was a breathtaking experience to build up more personal connections on a global level, to inspire old and new local communities, to explore together the sense and obstacles of worldwide collaboration and to connect other sectors and movements with the worldwide coworking infrastructure. It was all about creating new synergies, a huge win-win-situation for all participants and a rich field of open innovation for networks worldwide.


ARE THE QUESTIONS OF JELLYWEEK 2012 ALREADY ANSWERED?

“Which important needs can be fulfilled by coworking? For which local and global problems coworking can be a part of the solution? How can coworkers use the global coworking infrastructure to foster their businesses and projects? Which people and networks aren’t yet connected to the idea of coworking and should be involved? How can business-oriented networks and NGOs use the coworking infrastructure for their global community building and actions? How can we communicate during the #JELLYWEEK from jelly space to jelly space, from continent to continent with each other? Can we send voyagers from one place or continent to another place or continent in january? What kind of technical, organizational, social and cultural prototypes can we develop during the #JELLYWEEK for the enrichment of a global coworking culture?”

We are on the path. So let’s continue to collaborate and to explore the deeper sense of global coworking in the upcoming WORLDWIDE JELLYWEEK 2013. The world is waiting for you.

So let’s go the next steps:

SIMPLY REGISTER & LEARN MORE ABOUT THE IDEA OF JELLYWEEK.

PLAN A JELLY WITH YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY.

CONNECT AND COCREATE WITH COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE.


LET’S GLOCALIZE AND WEAVE A BIG NET OF COLLABORATION, THAT REACHES OUT ALL OVER THE PLANET.

PROUDLY PRESENTED: Jellyweek Crew Part 3 / Zofia, Beatriz, Annemarie

Yeah, the Jellyweek crew is completed: We are happy to present finally today the third part of the crew: Zofia, Beatriz & Annemarie from Italy, Spain & France are providing their statements for you: Who I am? What’s my vision for the next Jellyweek? How I will travel to the Camp location in France? And what is my vision for the Camp in September? Very promising answers.

Zofia Maria Mackiewicz / Italy & Poland


WHO I AM
I’m an open-minded, dynamic person who after over 10 years of working for an international corporation decided to leave everything and move from Poland to Italy. When I arrived here I was given an opportunity to work as a marketing consultant for one of  the first coworking spaces in Italy and met many online coworkers from Perth to Michigan. Their enthusiasm was contagious and they were all convinced that coworking changed their lives and their careers. I understood how powerful it can be.

MY JELLYWEEK VISION
I see Jellyweek as an opportunity to gather together, as an occasion to exchange our experiences and ideas, but also to share our successes. A well-organized Jellyweek could become an “injection” of inspiration during these difficult economic times.

HOW I WILL TRAVEL TO THE SUMMERCAMP
I am taking a direct flight from Venice to Toulouse and then we’ll see … train, carpooling, who knows. May the adventure begin!

MY SUMMERCAMP VISION
I’m looking forward to meeting all of you, to discuss our coworking issues and to share our ideas in a friendly, lively atmosphere. I hope that we will come up with some game-changing strategies for the future.

Beatriz Guilarte / Spain


WHO I AM
After working many years (which flew by), organizing events throughout Spain permeability and allow enrichment in the implementation of the vast Spanish labor legislation. I learned that passion, professionalism and collaboration are essential ingredients to tackle any project work that provides a bonus to the society in which it develops. Currently working as a Coworker-promoter in Café Mac: We opened the first center of Valladolid Coworking being a leader in Castilla y Leon. We realize that each person should take charge of their own future work, collaborating on projects, sharing and learning experience and professionalism of the rest of the community.

MY JELLYWEEK VISION
We need people who practice and promote a set of values and attributes associated with creativity, collaboration and multiculturalism.

HOW I WILL TRAVEL TO THE SUMMERCAMP
I will travel by plane from Madrid to Toulouse and after by bus or train to Carcasonne.

MY SUMMERCAMP VISION
I am sure that  it a great opportunity to share experiences, ideas and projects from different people with a common thought: being close to people, not being isolated and collaborate.

Annemarie Heinzl / France


WHO I AM
A visual management passionate woman. Mother, creating a business model related to her daughter’s profile. Which represents general teens and Y generation vision of life & work.

MY JELLYWEEK VISION
Make visible the integration of very different profiles, young people, elder one, unemployed, entrepreneurs, in existing equipped –in France– public spaces: libraries, maisons pour l’emploi, maisons de quartier, townhalls, schools, centres de loisirs … Mix profiles to create social, constructive, life-long learning relations.
 
HOW I WILL TRAVEL TO THE SUMMERCAMP
Will travel driving my car. By the way: will pass near Toulouse, can pick someone up at airport or railway station, on monday 3th of September.

MY SUMMERCAMP VISION
Bring myself to the group being focused on result-oriented work. Open minded, like concrete milestones set and work done. I will be curious. I will love to integrate a virtual group in real-life, participate to make this group a GREAT team!

You missed part 1 and part 2? Go for it.

PROUDLY PRESENTED: Jellyweek Crew Part 2 / Xaver, Arnaud, Anni

After the first part of the crew with Leslie, Bert-Ola and Leila today the second part is presented today: Three times more experiences, skills, energies and visions are included into the Jellyweek crew to make things grow. Again four simple questions for them: Who I am? What’s my vision for the next Jellyweek? How I will travel to the Camp location in France? And what is my vision for the Camp in September? For those, who also want to be part of the mission: The booking will be open untill the 11th july 12 pm.

Xaver Inglin / Switzerland / Jellyweek 2012 Participant & Jelly Web Thinker


WHO I AM
As the initiator and co-founder of coworkingZUG. I believe in small, trusted networks with global connections. My passion is to build real and virtual places that make collaboration fun. Having a background in information technology, I know that “peoplware” is as important as hardware and software.

MY JELLYWEEK VISION
Jellyweek is a great event that brings together people from all over the planet willing to share their ideas, experiences and projects. Participants discover new peers and take the chance to establish new connections. This valuable network of engaged co-creators drives change with lots of positive energy.

HOW I WILL TRAVEL TO THE SUMMERCAMP
Most likely by train via Geneva, Lyon.

MY SUMMERCAMP VISION
We understand what is needed to facilitate Jellyweek. We aim for processes and tools that support the participants to discover, engage, meet and collaborate. The core team takes action to make Jellyweek 2013 a pleasant, unique, fun event you don’t want to miss.

Arnaud Sellenet / France / Jellyweek 2012 Participant & Jelly Organizer


WHO I AM
Cofounder of this cutie tiny coworking space in Toulouse called Tau. Like most people currently working here on a daily basis, I’m a freelance web developer.

MY JELLYWEEK VISION
It’s good to know that more and more people stop to be isolated because of their professional activity. Coworking spaces and jellies are nice answers to this issue. And Jellyweek is a chance to show it by the example, it’s one week for promoting the way we want to work, by inviting the rest of the world to join us and work the jelly way for a week - at least.

HOW I WILL TRAVEL TO THE SUMMERCAMP
By car, from Toulouse, through Carcassonne probably, anybody willing to jump in from Toulouse or Carcassonne is welcome !

MY SUMMERCAMP VISION
I’m expecting many things from the summercamp: come there and meet people with many different experiences and point of views about coworking, share ideas, knowledge, learn, plan some local and global events for the next Jellyweek. And speak english, it’s been a while, I miss it :) I’ll bring some homework too, computer programming under the trees is inspiring. 

Anni Roolf / Germany / Jellyweek Founder


WHO I AM
As a collaboration and diversity enthusiast I created the idea of Jellyweek in 2010. I’ve organized the first Jellyweek in 2011 on a european level, and the second Jellyweek in 2012 together with Willi Schroll on a global level. I’m a wholehearted freelancing community builder, project manager & consultant.

MY JELLYWEEK VISION
I love to cocreate the next Jellyweek with a bigger, international team, to involve more countries and networks into the next Jellyweek and to create together transformational power. Why not having a Jellyweek ambassador and at least one jelly in each country of the world? Why not involving more coworking spaces all over the world to take part? Why not asking hackerspaces worldwide to join the week? Why not including also scientists, startup incubators, artists, changemakers, NGOS and others with their actions and thoughts to learn more about global collaboration? The sense of Jellyweek is for me also to discover once again more than before the richness of our beautiful world, its people, its topics and its challenges. Jellyweek is about dealing in a experimental, productive way with all of it.

HOW I WILL TRAVEL TO THE SUMMERCAMP
I plan to take the train to Paris and then from Paris to Carcassonne.

MY SUMMERCAMP VISION
I love to meet the great people of the crew (most of them I know from online collaboration during and after the last Jellyweek) for the first time personally. I wish to cocreate with them an inspiring process with perhaps totally new ideas for the next Jellyweek. I love to have this kind of well prepared surprise bag. I believe, that this crew will be able to create an unbelievable next level of Jellyweek.

More to follow. So: Join the crew. Book the camp. Push the movement.

PROUDLY PRESENTED: Jellyweek Crew Part 1 / Leslie, Bert-Ola, Leila

From 2nd to 9th of september the international Jellyweek Crew will gather for the first time at the JELLYWEEK SUMMER WORKCAMP in the south of France. It will be a very important moment for the Jellyweek movement, when people who mostly experienced together the first Worldwide Jellyweek in January 2012, but who didn’t meet each other personnally before, will come together with their experiences, skills, energies for the first time to cocreate the next Jellyweek in January 2013. See also the cool deskmag article to learn more about the camp.

Today we present the first part of the crew with asking them four important questions: Who I am? What’s my vision for the next Jellyweek? How I will travel to the Camp location in France? And what is my vision for the Camp in September? For those, who also want to be part of the mission: The booking will be open untill the 11th july.

Leslie Starr / France / Camp Organizer & Jellyweek 2012 Ambassador


WHO I AM
I am a strong minded girl, a wife and a mother, I live in the country side and I’m passionate about coworking. I’ve created an association: “Uploader” to promote coworking through organizing events: Jelly, FrozenJelly and now the Jellyweek Summer Workcamp. I believe that rural areas can benefit from the coworking movement and wish to help develop it.

MY JELLYWEEK VISION
Jellyweek is the one event that makes a difference, people from all over the world get together online and face-to-face. This event gives the chance to everyone to connect, meet, create partnership, get involve in new projects and be part of a worldwide movement.

HOW I WILL TRAVEL TO THE SUMMERCAMP
Unfair really, as i only have to drive 30 minutes to get there!

MY SUMMERCAMP VISION
I feel that in order to create a strong core team, it is important that we meet face-to-face, share our points of view, feelings, and experiences. We can then define what we need to improve the next Jellyweek, get organized and start creating. This will be a unique event and I am feeling proud and happy to be part of it.

Bert-Ola Bergstrand / Sweden / Jellyweek 2012 Ambassador


WHO I AM
Over the last years I have initiated and been part in developing a global network of Institutional entrepreneurs called Social Capital Forum. Aim of the network is to facilitate social capital development among actors in society, connecting local with global, urban with rural and virtual with face to face meetings. Moreover, I have been involved in developing the “Impact Investing” field in Scandinavia, hosted a number of events on the topic in the Nordic countries together with SoCap and other actors. I have also been part in outlining a new type of innovation system, the Biosphere Innovation system which basically connects social entrepreneurs into the context of Biosphere reserves. Finally, I am at the advisory board of some great social enterprises and facilitaing some awsome social media groups.

MY JELLYWEEK VISION
Jellyweek 2012 was a powerful movement which grew quickly and spread widely around the world in a few weeks time. I have a few ideas what could be the reasons for that and in 2013 I hope there will be an even more dynamic event with more participation around the world. If there could be 400 coworking places with 10 000 changemakers involved it would be awsome, but fully realistic. I also hope that I can understand the dynamics better around Jelly Week, its possibilities and challenges by using the social capital theory.

HOW I WILL TRAVEL TO THE SUMMERCAMP
I guess I will fly to Paris and then take a train.

MY SUMMERCAMP VISION
In the Summercamp I hope to learn more about the coworking movement around the world, not the least experiences from Brazil, which seems to be a very interesting country related to social capital development. Also the quilt project which was a very fascinating project would be great to hear more about. The quilt project has the potential of giving anl understanding in how to develop more sustainable development around relationships. Also I hope to enjoy the wine and culture of France, and baguette!! I remember when I was climbing in south France some 20 years back. My first trip on my own to another country in europe, outside the Nordic countries. A great experience! I am sure this trip will bring at least the same positive memories for the future.  

Leila País de Miranda / Brazil / Jellyweek Quilt Creator


WHO I AM
I was born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro in 1958 and became a mother in 1989. I graduated in Engineering and Systems Analysis and have always had special interest in helping children to be happy, creative and nice for themselves and others. In 1996, with two friends - Nilton Lessa and Luis Eugênio Pacheco - I opened “Moleque de ideias” - a space of co creation, where we have a team of software engineers and that can be also used by children from 4 years of age onwards to develop their own ideas and learn what they really want to learn. In Moleque de ideas we explore new technologies, including e-textiles. In January 2012, when I heard about Jellyweek, I decided to propose the co creation of a quilt, a piece of e-textiles, as a symbol of the coworking movement. It’s working!

MY JELLYWEEK VISION
Like the 2012 edition, Jellyweek 2013 will be a source of inspiration and motivation for us to meet with old and new friends and have again the pleasure of living and creating something meaningful together in the same space - physical and virtual.

HOW I WILL TRAVEL TO THE SUMMERCAMP
On August 31 I’ll fly to Paris and then to Toulouse where I’ll spend the day getting to know the historical center. The next day, I will go by train to Carcassonne, where I will meet with everyone to follow to Frontiers-Cabardès. I intend to spend the week following the Summercamp in Barcelona.

MY SUMMERCAMP VISION
I see the SummerCamp as a special moment of celebration of the idea of co creation. I believe in the transformative power of small groups acting together as creators rather than consumers. The Jellyweek Quilt 2012 is an example of co creation and it’ll be there in Summercamp, reminding us how we make beautiful, intelligent and meaningful things together - and just because we want to.

More to follow. So: Join the crew. Book the camp. Push the movement.

JELLYWEEK SUMMER WORKCAMP is coming

JELLYWEEK SUMMER WORKCAMP is coming to the South of France and wants you to join the powerful international core team for the cocreation of Jellyweek 2013.


JELLYWEEK SUMMER WORKCAMP is about innovation, cocreating processes and structures for global collaboration and of course the meeting of extraordinary people: It will be a week to build up a committed international team with a strong shared mission. In our team of activists we need all skills for imagination & implementation for concrete & visionary project management of #JW13.

COME & JOIN FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
LET’S CREATE THE NEW & NEEDED
LET’S MOVE HUGE THINGS TOGETHER
LET’S COCREATE #JW13

We will meet up in the inspiring environment of Frontiers-Cabardès / Aude in the South France near to the Pyrenees. Leslie Starr, one of the most active ambassadors from JELLYWEEK 2012, who is living in that beautiful region, will host us there.


The agenda is already existing as draft. Please feel free to add you propositions on the etherpad or contact world@jellyweek.org.
2 SEPT ____ arrival & trip to the surrounding nature
3 SEPT ____ getting to know each other & cocreating the vision for #JW13
4 SEPT ____ project planning #JW13 & creation of teams
5 SEPT ____ teamwork with sharing sessions at the beginning & end of the day
6 SEPT ____ teamwork with sharing sessions at the beginning & end of the day
7 SEPT ____ final session, cocreation of a plan for the period until #JW13
8 SEPT ____ trip to Carcassonne & party
9 SEPT ____ departure


JELLYWEEK SUMMER WORKCAMP will last 7 days & cost 205,75 Euros for the accomodation. Booking is possible via Eventbrite.

Thanks a lot to Leslie Starr from Jelly09. by Uploader, who’s organizing the camp with jellyweek.org. And thanks for the support of our partners deskmag, Social Capital World Forum, groaction and OuiShare. If you also want to give support to the camp, please contact world@jellyweek.org.

We are looking forward to this new adventure with all of you!

JELLYWEEK SUMMER WORKCAMP event on facebook
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WORLDWIDE JELLYWEEK 2013 event on facebook
JELLYWEEK group on facebook
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“My #JELLYWEEK!” - The call for your tiny video clip

Willi Schroll

Uncountable experiences, insights, impressions – show it in <2 minutes!

After a week to relax a bit and going back to business for Anni and me … now is the time to celebrate what you have done during this week! Share your experiences!

• Please show us, what you have seen and felt, insights, impressions, stories. 
• Please do it in 30-120 seconds
• So that everyone can easily browse with pleasure through our collective experience in the resulting youtube playlist
• Tag it! Else we cannot organize this. Tag it just with “JELLYWEEK” and we can easily pick it up into our youtube channel jellyweek 
• Deadline? Not really, but we all want to see the clips as soon as possible, so let us have Feb 26 as the red line.

Take it easy - anything goes

Feel free, how to do it. If you just invest one minute speaking into your web cam then it is perfect!!! You might do that as a single person or a group of jelly people. What was your experience, surprise, disruption? Check out the thebizdojo – or just visit our channel youtube.com/user/jellyweek to get an idea of the possibilities. 

Like to make a long clip?

Great! But we will have a separate playlist for that contributions longer than 120 seconds. A short video increases the chance to be viewed. If you want to have stuff in XL or XXL (e.g. 20 minutes instead of 2), then you might create a short teaser video to point people to this.

Media questionnaire – for your video, but also for reports, blogposts etc

This questionnaire is not only for your content, but for anything related to the #JELLYWEEK. This allows for a nicely growing overview on a growing spreadsheet – an interesting list for all of us.

• Media questionnaire: http://bit.ly/jw12-dropmedia
• Media overview spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/jw12-mediaoverview
• You are invited to drop interesting reports or blogposts from another source than yours
• Before you drop something please check the about page and the press page - maybe we have found this link already

Updated 2012-01-30