In 2008, a couple of students interacting on UM’s Ning site that discovered they were both transcribing Ken’s talks to deepen their study and practice. One thing led to another, and a team of volunteers quickly formed to create the transcripts, audio clips, search tools and other features you find here.

The challenge of communicating across many time zones, and an expansive and changing vision of possibilities led to the creation of three distinct teams (transcribing, taxonomy and audio clips), with the team leaders and Ken meeting online each month to coordinate efforts.

The taxonomy team soon evolved into two groups, one to define and develop key search terms and the other to implement search capability. The transcribing team also split into two with one handling transcribing and the other editing. A fourth group manages the recording and posting of talks as podcasts, underpinning the efforts of all the others.

The result is the ongoing publication of high quality transcripts with accompanying audio clips for each section and the ability to search the transcripts for key concepts.

The Process

The Teams