We’re getting our local Transition initiative, Transition Montpelier, off the ground (have a look at the Transition Towns website or Rob Hopkins blog for an idea about the movement).
We have had two open meetings to date, several small projects under our belts, a range of new ideas and related groups emerging; it’s all good. We [...]
Entries Tagged as 'community'
Running local Transition events: some suggestions and questions
July 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation
Tags:bristol·community·event·Facilitation·learnt·lesson·lessons·lessonslearnt·meeting·montpelier·transition·transitiontowns·ttmvt·workshop
Transition Montpelier presence at Bristol Art Fringe
April 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Events, Facilitation
Transition Montpelier is a new-ish Transition initiative in my neighbourhood. I am involved and excited.
These things are challenging to get off the ground, but Dan Weisselberg and the other early members are putting a lot of effort and inspiration into it, having already organised a neighbourhood clean up (particularly fine thank you poster), found some [...]
Tags:bristol·community·event·montpelier·timeline·transitiontowns
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 [...]
Tags:community·design·flickr·management·participation·participationpatterns·patterns·rules
The Five Golden Rules for multi-platform development
December 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Facilitation
On Monday 15/12 we had the ideas lab launch event for Media Sandbox 2009. I designed and facilitated the event partnered with Victoria Tillotson of iShed overseen by Clare Reddington of iShed.
It was fun. We worked hard and focused and produced some interesting stuff. David Wilcox did some fantastic social reporting, the attendees captured their [...]
Tags:advice·community·conference·design·event·Facilitation·golden·media·mediasandbox·multi-platform·participationpatterns·patterns·rules·sandbox·story·storytelling·watershed·workshop
Storytelling as our living sap
December 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation
We had a great knowledge cafe last Thursday about storytelling. The magnificent personal impact coach and storyteller Tim Sheppard gave us a swift yet thorough overview, starting and finishing with a powerful tale about ‘Truth’ and ‘Story’ with plenty to think about in between.
Storytelling and narrative analysis bounced back into fashion through knowledge management a [...]
Tags:community·culture·Facilitation·llosa·mario·narrative·story·storytelling·vargas
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 [...]
Tags:blended·community·Facilitation·knowledge·lessonslearnt·media·mediasandbox·organisation·report·sandbox·Strategy·web2
Bristol Skillswap: User Experience
November 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Events
The next Bristol Skillswap is about user experience, and is in The Pervasive Media Studio on Tuesday 11th November. As well as our very own Joe (the uncle of usability) Leech, we have some experts from further afield as the gig is partnered in with Dan Dixon and Alex Older’s Web Developers Conference.
Here’s the blurb:
Bristol’s [...]
Tags:bristol·community·event·experience·skillswap·Technology·usability·user
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 [...]
Tags:4talent·community·conference·Facilitation·maverick·work·workshop
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 [...]
