Archive for the ‘Facilitation’ Category
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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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
From August 2006 to July 2007 I worked with CILIP's Department of Knowledge and Information to help them prepare for, establish and nurture their online membership communities. It was a wonderful experience; we all worked hard breaking new boundaries, and we all learnt a huge amount about all sorts of ...
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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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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
As you might know, I find equal inspiration for group facilitation from the online and offline worlds. As well as this, I find inspiration from books and blogs etc. just as much as it exists in pubs, parties, festivals and life on the streets around me - there are lessons ...
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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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Friday, April 18th, 2008
The indubitable Matt Moore and infinitely inspiring Nancy White and I had a three way conversation about 'Blended facilitation' recently. It was great fun, a privilege to share some time with them both, and gave me lots to think about.
Download the podcast from Matt's site
Things I am ruminating ...
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