We here at CN are fired up about the Olympics, so they were an easy pick for Friday’s Transcribe topic. It was also easy for us all to agree that the Olympics are a collaborative event, yet after an hour of discussion questions remained regarding how they are collaborative.

Illustration by Mike LaRhette and Annie White

Several of our CN scribes, Tricia Walker, John Colaruotolo, and Evan Wondolowski, whisked away to Edinburough, Scotland on June 25 on the heels of TEDxBoston for TEDGlobal 2012. Here are their posts from abroad.

Hello, Edinburgh! View from my hotel:

There he is! I spotted TED!

It doesn’t surprise me that people respond favorably to concepts like energized and collaboration. Being energized is a positive state of being we all sort of strive to be in and we ponder how best to get there.  And when I think about it, collaboration’s ability to harness and build energy within a group is by far one of its most interesting parts.   

But HOW you might be wondering – HOW does collaboration DO this? Here’s one idea.*

Maybe you’ve heard someone say, “_____ is the social glue?”

This Friday’s Transcribe in the Lab was a little different – it was harder. Our own Mason Smith is the originator of the Transcribe in the Lab and he’s lead every one until this week. This week Mason was delivering work for one of our clients and that left the task of marshalling the team to jump in was left to me.

And like I said, it was just a bit harder than I expected. So first, let me thank Mason for getting these going and doing a great job keeping the momentum up. Second, we used Mason as the inspiration for our discussion this week.