Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Lessons Learnt: CILIP online communities

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 ...

Community members opinions and how to handle them

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 ...

Supporting physical communities with virtual tools presentation

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, ...

Media Sandbox case study

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 ...

Methods to engage people with technology

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 ...

Three types of online facilitation

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 ...

Media Sandbox case study at Social tools conference 2008

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 ...

Customer engagement survey 2008

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

E-consultancy and cScape have run their Customer Engagement Survey for the second year running and the report is now available. There is feedback in there for everyone and it makes for good reading. This bit is the first to chew on (for me anyway): "... 70% consider building a sense of community ...

Facilitation and hosting

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, ...

Free training in Bristol

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Bristol Wireless are running some free training courses in Saint Werburgh's community centre: On 29th November 2007 we will be running a beginners’ training course from 7pm - 9pm at St. Werburghs Community Centre, Horley Road, St. Werburghs. The course will cover logging in and out, the desktop, the file system, ...