Archive for the ‘Strategy’ Category
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, May 2nd, 2008
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, ...
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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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Monday, April 14th, 2008
I'm looking forward to doing a speaking slot at the forthcoming 'All Together now' event at Channel Four on May 1.
My bit is on how physical communities can be augmented by virtual communities, focusing on minority sports; pretty much as close to my core interests as you can get.
I'm going ...
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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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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Richard Sedley and his Customer Engagement Unit team are publishing a timely new book called: "Winners and Losers in a troubled economy". Here is some blurb:
With all the talk and early signs of an economic downturn the pressure on businesses to prove ROI on their marketing activities is greater than ...
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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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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
ROI for 'communities' is going to appear on our horizons for proper this year. We will have the debate from the sponsors asking if it's worth it, and another one about which way around it should be - ie: ROI for whom? The sponsors, or the participants. Likewise there is ...
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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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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
If you are in London on February 13th, and are interested in how to do the right sort of thinking in advance of 'I want a community', go to this event (Thank you Petef for pointing me to it):
Digital networks and computer systems remain obscure to most people until something ...
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