This is a report on the BBC Learning Unplugged event in Bristol, 26 June 2009. James Richards (BBC Learning Development) and Myles Runham (BBC Learning) co-hosted the event with Clare Reddington (Ished); I designed and facilitated it with help from Jack Martin Leith. There were approximately 65 attendees, made up of 15 BBC folk and [...]
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BBC Learning Unplugged: event report
July 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Events, Facilitation, Technology
Tags:bbc·bristol·design·event·Facilitation·gig·innovation·lab·learning·media·pervasive·unplugged·watershed·workshop
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags:advice·community·conference·design·event·Facilitation·golden·media·mediasandbox·multi-platform·participationpatterns·patterns·rules·sandbox·story·storytelling·watershed·workshop
Networking – past, present and future
October 2nd, 2008 · 8 Comments · Events, Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
This is a write up of a presentation I gave about networking at The Knowledge and Innovation Network‘s gathering in March 2008. I am suddenly inspired to write this up after enjoying Ron Donaldson‘s excellent ecological explanation of web2 and Dominic Campbell‘s admirable work for Barnet Council at Unicom’s social tools conference this week (great [...]
Tags:design·Facilitation·networking·networks·personality·theory
Paper: A Proven Unconferencing Approach in Search of Its Theoretical Foundations
June 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Events, Facilitation
My good friends ‘the knowledgeboard doctors’ (Wolf, Troxler and Kazi) have written a paper digging into the unconference construct and looking around for some good solid theoretical foundations from social science. They have done good; the paper is readable, interesting, quite heavyweight (if you ask me), and, most importantly, firmly rooted in practical experience. It’s [...]
Tags:conference·design·event·Facilitation·research·unbla·unconference
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
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 [...]
