Here are the number 2 out of the 18 Questions & Answers giving details of the experience :

2.Did coach (es) leverage new social technologies to bring the best ideas to the fore?
Do you mean : social with a s ?  That is to say putting many swimmers into the same pool spread into similar lanes and connected by some underwater acoustic or mimic instant messaging like scuba or apnea diving buddies ?.

I would say : my sponsors . So do my sponsors encourage me and my friends to twitt, link, goog or like ?
This is obviously a much recent experience.Yes, I had the chance to bring up together a Co-Operative revival....This is obviously a much recent experience.Yes, I had the chance to bring up together a "Co-Operative revival"....I had to wait for the technos to exist so it is much more recent experience. I started getting props back in  summer 2007;

Brand new Goggles.With only one O. Much more waterproof and fog-free. and we enjoyed a recognized success after 5 years of different experimentation and the release of the last generation of Google suite. It was like moving from pictures shots to sub-marine video motion to fine -tune all of our practices.

Couple of  examples of the Lap 2 routine also happened before and after the millenium, and again at a larger scale as we speak (or your readers read), with a clear momentum gained since 2006.

Internet connections were provided for only a decade although the very fresh recruit could not believe it as it is taken for granted to get a decent connection to be able to work.
I got Access to the web in 1995, as one of the 9 first company connections on the European soil.
Was it  provided by a strategic plan decided by the top management ?Not so clearly. Or clearly not.
My chance was some kind of random adoption of a temporary office more to be understood as a cubicle like basic room in a remote building within a consulting and project management assignment.
Like I decided to swim into some remote lane away from the sunny side, less busy and smooth water.

My very next neighbour that I did not know being the brand new CIO, lost in re-location too, and quite a barbarian into the empire.Some senior swimmer raised  in the shark pool of early computer industry major, a brillant mathematician and restless bridge player (he would keep competing on-line during highly demanding executive board debates), with high interest for the fringes of any kind, including management.

 
Lanes to Squares. Prachuap Khiri Khan Credit Frédéric J. Leconte 2012  

"Lanes to squares" Illustrates how much it is important not to reproduce the structure when moving to the social technos and communities but getting to the squared level of innovating on the innovation and let the individuals to position (center or fringe) and choose their color (shining , medium or passive).

Not at all a product of the internal executive nursery but the typical sign of an opening to some kind of diversity at the top. True story this maverick mentor now retired, was so network wired and politically uncorrect that I officially intronized fellows gravitating inside his influence  and attraction "The 12 monkeys army" despite their number being slightly above.Kind of early hurs internal anonymous.

Same for ride up to the premice of the cloud in 2007, thanks to the same senior shark doubling the official coach who proposed myself to be a business pilote for social sharespaces experience.
it was like trying to practice with all others group swimmers while linked with a lousy rope. technology was not squeeky clean at that time.We were talking V1.0 or even Beta test.
But this was a non planned but breakthrough dynamic with a shy innovation speech.

The only other outsider in the pilote try-out was the Information Technology group. Quite impressive on the start line.

Coaches were not much paying attention to the remote lanes in lap 2, although some buzz started to circulate and escalate. Humming is today hitting the radar screen at the same time it show up into more typical  management press and consulting groups newsletter channels.
Best Practices social community is the actual new booster of pre-existing technical communities built during the hype time of Knowledge Management within regular org chart organizations ( where  silos bridging and sharing was already expected).
The not yet winned battle for change going on can be defined as a new attempt based on connecting some unexpected layers and partners.

Building of giant mirrors is the new step where small units co-operating are giving access to a combined enlarged scope. As pictured into the James Webb telescope used for the logo of the community.