Events

Entries Tagged as 'Events'

Transition Montpelier presence at Bristol Art Fringe

April 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Events, Facilitation

Transition Montpelier is a new-ish Transition initiative in my neighbourhood. I am involved and excited. These things are challenging to get off the ground, but Dan Weisselberg and the other early members are putting a lot of effort and inspiration into it, having already organised a neighbourhood clean up (particularly fine thank you poster), found [...]

Gurteen K-cafe report: Generosity, 04/02/09

February 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Events, Facilitation

February’s Bristol Gurteen Knowledge cafe was a heart warming eye in the storm of some very exciting UK winter weather. Steve Bridger gave us a great presentation around and about the subject of Generosity which left us with plenty to think about, personally, publicly and professionally. And Jesus’ social network, but that’s another story… After [...]

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe Bristol: Generosity: 4 February

January 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Events

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the ever-generous Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Wednesday 4th February, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt. Steve Bridger, local k-cafe member and ‘Chief Generosity Officer’ (with almost 20 years of work within and consulting to the charity sector) will [...]

The Five Golden Rules for multi-platform development

December 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Facilitation

On Monday 15/12 we had the ideas lab launch event for Media Sandbox 2009. I designed and facilitated the event partnered with Victoria Tillotson of iShed overseen by Clare Reddington of iShed. It was fun. We worked hard and focused and produced some interesting stuff. David Wilcox did some fantastic social reporting, the attendees captured [...]

Conference networking at Online Information 2008: report and lessons learned

December 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Facilitation

This is a brief report and things we learned about the experimental ‘knowledge networking’ and ‘social reporting’ facilitation work done at Online Information 2008, co-authored between David Wilcox and Emma Wallace and me. We worked with Lorna Candy and the team at Incisive Media to help them provide more networking opportunities for delegates and speakers [...]

Storytelling as our living sap

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation

We had a great knowledge cafe last Thursday about storytelling. The magnificent personal impact coach and storyteller Tim Sheppard gave us a swift yet thorough overview, starting and finishing with a powerful tale about ‘Truth’ and ‘Story’ with plenty to think about in between. Storytelling and narrative analysis bounced back into fashion through knowledge management [...]

Wanted: real questions for digital communications innovation lab

November 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Technology

Do you or your organization have a question about how to use digital communication technologies that you would like a room full of experts to workshop for free? Are there people you feel you could engage with in new ways with these new technologies? A campaign you want to support? A service you wish to [...]

Which Widget for What? Media Sandbox 2008 Report.

November 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Events, Facilitation, Strategy, Technology

Attached is the final report about the facilitation work done with iShed for the Media Sandbox 2008 development scheme. It covers all of our strategic planning, the tools we used, activities we pursued (and chose not to pursue), the lessons we learnt and the metrics we measured by. And there are some handy diagrams. Download [...]

Bristol Skillswap: User Experience

November 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Events

The next Bristol Skillswap is about user experience, and is in The Pervasive Media Studio on Tuesday 11th November. As well as our very own Joe (the uncle of usability) Leech, we have some experts from further afield as the gig is partnered in with Dan Dixon and Alex Older’s Web Developers Conference. Here’s the [...]

4talent community workshop report

October 27th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Events, Facilitation, Strategy

This is a brief report about 4talent’s inspiration session about online communities held in Birmingham, 26/10/08. I gave a short presentation alongside Emma Monks (Sulake), Ally Branley (Channel 4) and Heather Champ (flickr). It was a great pleasure to meet them and see their presentations which were all very interesting indeed – there are few [...]

Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral

Half web producer, half group facilitator. Groups support: online and in the physical world.