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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 [...]

On constructing rules of engagement

December 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Facilitation, Strategy

I’m thinking a lot about distributed networks at the moment, decision-making, conversations and how much community ‘platforms’ have moved on. I’m not sure I even believe in the ‘platform’ concept any more as it so loaded a word with so many centralised implications. As well as this inherited value, so much of our activity is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: Storytelling: 27 November

October 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Events, Facilitation

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the multi-disciplinary Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday 27 November, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt. Tim Sheppard, local storytelling group member, will be introducing the subject before we get down to the serious k-cafe business as usual. If [...]

Networking – past, present and future

October 2nd, 2008 · 8 Comments · Events, Facilitation, Strategy, Technology

This is a write up of a presentation I gave about networking at The Knowledge and Innovation Network‘s gathering in March 2008. I am suddenly inspired to write this up after enjoying Ron Donaldson‘s excellent ecological explanation of web2 and Dominic Campbell‘s admirable work for Barnet Council at Unicom’s social tools conference this week (great [...]

igfest review

September 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation

This is a brief personal reflection on igfest, the three day games festival which took place in Central Bristol from 19th to 21st September. I was a voluntary member on the organising team, mentored some of the games, ran a game on the day, and generally helped out. I was immediately drawn to igfest as [...]

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Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral

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