On May 11, the kick-off workshop for using the people tagging demonstrator as part of operational activities has taken place. Jenny Bimrose from University of Warwick and Simone Braun and Andreas Schmidt from FZI have introduced the people tagging system to an enlarged group of ten personal advisors at Connexions Northumberland after it had been substantially improved as a result of the participatory design phase with a core group from Connexions Northumberland.

The participants were enthusiastic about the system. They particularly liked the democratic approach to getting access to each other - and the simplicity of the system's usage ("the simplicity is fabulous"). One of the participants - who called herself a technophobe - concluded after the workshop that it was "very easy to use", "accessible", "friendly", "lovely", and she will definitely use it. While there are many ideas on how to improve it, the participants have insisted that we need to keep it as simple as it currently is. 

The participants of the systems (plus potentially a number of additional members of the organization) will from now on use the system and provide the project the opportunity to study the knowledge maturing in such a sociotechnical system.