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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Customer engagement survey 2008

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Strategy, Technology

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 around their brand [...]

Facilitation and hosting

November 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Facilitation, Technology

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, so I suggest you read [...]

Free training in Bristol

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Technology

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, word processing, setting up [...]

Three types of community

November 16th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Strategy, Technology

This is a brief overview of three community models. They are theoretical models, but they are ones I have used with a variety of people on a variety of real projects. They are very useful tools to abstract and discuss the myriad issues that communities throw up for their hosts to handle, starting with the [...]

Social networks: findings with Amnesty

October 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology

Over June/July 2007, Steve Bridger and I worked with The Amnesty International UK (AIUK) web team, helping them build community around, and promote the Make Some Noise Movement in the run up to the launch of The Instant Karma CD. Download the findings document from here Our aim was to build and support communities around [...]

Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral

Half web producer, half group facilitator. Groups support: online and in the physical world.