Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
Friday, July 4th, 2008
The next Bristol Skillswap is about Content Management Systems on July 10th, in The Pervasive Media Studio. This one is led by the intrepid Nameless crew; The skillswaps are always fun and interesting, and I recommend a visit. Blurb here:
Over the last 10 years the CMS has risen from a ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
About 15-20 of us met at The Pervasive Media Studio yesterday for our Bristol Gurteen Knowledge Cafe about 'Unlearning'. It was great. Among the party were academics, consultants, coaches, and representatives from big and small private and public sector organisations.
Daniel Doherty (University of Bristol, Management School) gave a very stimulating ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Live Tag Surfing is a shared idea created between myself and Dan Dixon.
We are both very excited about bringing it to 2gether08 and hosting it throughout the two days. I love it because it's an honest and fun knowledge focused facilitation technique with a heart of gold. Dan loves it ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I am looking for a charitable home for a truly magnificent whiteboard. It's huge and wonderful and on wheels, but it's much too big for me to store anywhere so I reckoned that there must be a community centre who could use it and love it on a long term ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
My good friends 'the knowledgeboard doctors' (Wolf, Troxler and Kazi) have written a paper digging into the unconference construct and looking around for some good solid theoretical foundations from social science. They have done good; the paper is readable, interesting, quite heavyweight (if you ask me), and, most importantly, firmly ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the beautiful Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday 26 June, from 18:30.
Daniel Doherty from The University of Bristol has kindly agreed to lead us into the subject of 'Unlearning', and then we will discuss it in true K-cafe ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
This is a brief event report from the Media Sandbox final event on Tuesday 6 May, in Watershed, Bristol.
While we were designing the launch event for the Media Sandbox project (November 2007) we had the end event in mind (seeing the project as a Community of Practice with a clear ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
I am now 'curating' Bristol's Gurteen Knowledge Cafes. Erica Hurley has agreed to co-curate with me which is cool.
This is good news as I:
think that the regional k-cafes are well worth keeping alive as they have some great people involved and some great conversations
enjoy the format: have participated in many ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
(thanks for the space, Pervasive Media Studio!)
We had some good talks and discussion around the topic of 'Project Management' at last week's Skillswap:
Joe Leech talked about being a small cog in many bigger systems: Presentation
Laura Francis talked about how she uses Agile
Fraser Stephens discussed the 'what to's of Prince2: ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
This is a brief write up of the Media Sandbox launch event on Thursday 29th November in Watershed, Bristol.The event was the beginning of newly formed iShed's 'Pervasive Media Sandbox' commissioning scheme (which you can read more of on the Media Sandbox site).
I designed and facilitated it, working closely with ...
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