Archive for the ‘Facilitation’ Category
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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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
We are planning for the final event to wrap up this year's Media Sandbox commissions and give the community another boost with a physical gathering.
For background, you can read about the launch event, and the high level case study about the blended facilitation approach we took to the project as ...
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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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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
(Most of the Media Sandbox projects)
Introduction
This is high level case study about the blended facilitation work ongoing with the Media Sandbox commissioning scheme managed by iShed. Here is the descriptive blurb:
Bringing together leading technology, artistic and media talent, Media Sandbox is a new commissioning scheme to support South West companies/organisations ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Joe Leech and I are convening March's Skillswap in the Pervasive Media Lab. It's called 'Project manage this!', and is about project management. I was a project manager once; there wasn't enough human in it for me and way too much detail, but I remain deeply impressed by a good ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Bristol dawn, 10/02/06
I will soon be publishing a case study about my work with the 'Media Sandbox'; the new commissioning scheme run by iShed based on a communal open innovation model supported by (basically) free social software tools and structured using blended facilitation techniques. We ran the launch event in ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Here are some high level thoughts outlining things you might do when planning for a new community or 'common purpose networking tool' (thanks Ben), or group space, or network enabler, and how you might go about doing it in such a way as to get the most benefit for all ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
A quick addendum about facilitation and moderation on online spaces before a longer post about strategy.
Pete Ferne and Dan Dixon grouping a mindmap at The Media Sandbox community launch event. Are they facilitating, moderating, re-purposing, or nothing at all?
Facilitation:
Is largely around helping people connect, share, and learn together; disrupting ...
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