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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 now [...]

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 the full [...]

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 enough [...]

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 write [...]

Customer Engagement Survey the third

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Strategy

E-consultancy and cScape are running their third Customer Engagement Survey until 21st October. I recommend you take a few minutes to fill it in. As well as getting a free report later, simply by reading the survey you are asking yourself some interesting questions.
Here’s the blurb:
The questionnaire takes five minutes to complete, including questions on:
• [...]

Can you ‘develop’ communities?

September 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Facilitation, Strategy

This sign is on the street down the road from where I live. It was put there by the amazingly admirable People’s Republic of Stoke’s Croft‘.
The street is called Stoke’s Croft and is in the middle of a tug of war between a range of ‘redevelopment’ forces – council, property developers, bottom up community folk, [...]

CoP research with K.I.N.

July 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Facilitation, Strategy

The Knowledge And Innovation Network is looking for organisations to partner up in its ongoing Community of Practice (CoP) benchmarking research project. There are a great range of organisations associated with this network, and the first round of benchmarking was a great success. Here’s the blurb:
Networks and communities of practice (CoPs) have increasingly become referred [...]

Lessons Learnt: CILIP online communities

June 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology

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 things one encounters while getting [...]

Supporting physical communities with virtual tools presentation

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Strategy, Technology

I presented a short story at Steve Moore’s ‘All Together Now’ gathering, hosted by Sport England at Channel Four yesterday; it was fun. Also speaking were Gi Fernando, Antony Mayfield, Mark McGuiness, and it was all chaired by Rebecca Caroe.
It was great as I got to talk about sport stuff, and communities, and virtual tools, [...]

Curating Bristol’s Gurteen Knowledge Cafes

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation, Strategy

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 k-cafes, and include them in [...]

Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral

Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation.