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 [...]
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4talent community workshop report
October 27th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Events, Facilitation, Strategy
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lessons Learnt: CILIP online communities
June 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
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 things one encounters while getting [...]
Community members opinions and how to handle them
May 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation, Technology
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 to be learnt all over [...]
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 [...]
Tags:bristol·centre·climbing·community·design·Facilitation·groups·Technology
Media Sandbox final event
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation
We are planning for the final event to wrap up this year’s Media Sandbox commissions and give the community another boost with a physical gathering. For background, you can read about the launch event, and the high level case study about the blended facilitation approach we took to the project as a whole. Suffice to [...]
Tags:community·design·event·Facilitation·media·mediasandbox·pervasive
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
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
What are facilitation and moderation
February 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation
A quick addendum about facilitation and moderation on online spaces before a longer post about strategy. Pete Ferne and Dan Dixon grouping a mindmap at The Media Sandbox community launch event. Are they facilitating, moderating, re-purposing, or nothing at all? Facilitation: Is largely around helping people connect, share, and learn together; disrupting the walls that [...]
