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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Strategy'
Curating Bristol’s Gurteen Knowledge Cafes
April 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation, Strategy
Tags:bristol·cafe·Events·Facilitation·gurteen·knowledge·work
All together now event
April 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Strategy
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 to consider a [...]
Tags:casestudy·community·event·Facilitation·socialmedia·speaking·sport·Strategy
Media Sandbox case study
March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
(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 to research [...]
Tags:bristol·event·Facilitation·ished·media·mediasandbox·sandbox·watershed·workshop
Ideas for a troubled economy
March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Strategy
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 at any other point [...]
Tags:cscape·e-consultancy·economy·engagement·marketing·models·Strategy
Strategic planning for group spaces
February 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Facilitation, Strategy
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 actors in the system. I [...]
Tags:community·engagement·Facilitation·model·moderation·process·Strategy·theory
Online community survey
February 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Strategy
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 much talk about the ROI [...]
Tags:·community·investment·money·roi·survey
Risks when setting up new communities
February 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation, Strategy
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 good brains moving back into [...]
Methods to engage people with technology
January 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Strategy, Technology
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 goes wrong. What if [...]
Three types of online facilitation
January 19th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
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 in an increasingly distributed online [...]
Tags:community·Facilitation·model·onlinefacilitation·online_facilitation·theory
Media Sandbox case study at Social tools conference 2008
January 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
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 speakers (including me, ahem). This time I am [...]
Tags:community·conference·Facilitation·ished·mediasandbox·unicom
