Archive for the ‘Facilitation’ Category
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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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
The online community managers' mailing list emint is on fire at the moment. Either we've all been visited by the participation fairy, or there is a lot going on in community land. I'm a believer in the second theory, as fairies don't exist, and it is a delight to see ...
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
This post compliments my earlier post about the three types of community where I described three ways of looking at communities from the point of view of centricity and the login. It is meant to give you an idea about the challenges and opportunities offered to facilitators and community managers ...
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
The latest in Unicom's Social Tools conference series is on the 5th and 6th March in London. This one is called Web 2.0 and Beyond: Applying social and collaborative tools to business problems. As before, it will be chaired by David Gurteen, and there are some great ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
The London Voluntary Service Council (LVSC) are hosting a day's conference about networks and networking skills, which I am doing some workshops at. The organisers have been thinking about this seriously and have come up with an interesting mix of information provision, workshops, and networking tasks for the attendees, ...
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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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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Lyndsay Rees-Jones (CILIP Membership Support Advisor) and I gave another presentation about the CILIP membership communities at Online Information yesterday. It was fun and we hope everyone enjoyed it.
You don't have to read all this post; you can go straight to slideshare from here:
See the presentation on slideshare
We had already ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
At a Unicom conference a while back I wasn't amazed to hear that 'networked individualism' was to be the next thing, and perhaps 'Community' was being shown the door (too much like hard work on the whole, and, perhaps big corporations trying to emulate 'Community' is a bit weird?).
Dave Snowden ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Johnnie Moore just wrote almost exactly the post I was about to write about David Snowden's post referring to Chris Corrigan's post about facilitation and hosting. I'm not really a 'blogger' blogger who blogs about other people's blogs because others do it better, but thought this too interesting not to, ...
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