Notes On Design invited Rick Bennett and I to talk about our experiences of long-distance and global online creative collaboration within the Omnium Research Group.

Rick and I have often felt that some of the more interesting conversations we have had have been over a couple of beers in informal settings, rather than sometimes dry and slow rounds of academic conferences or papers. So, we decided to have a public conversation and publish it online.

You can read the first part of The Conversation over at the Notes On Design blog. In it we talk a bit about our first experiences and thoughts about online collaboration from ten years ago (hard to believe it’s been that long) in the context of what now seems commonplace: social networks and online communities.

The second part, concerning emerging cultural trends and Omnium’s outreach projects follows soon - I’ll post an update here when it’s up.

UPDATE: The second part is now online.