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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 [...]

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: Storytelling: 27 November

October 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Events, Facilitation

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the multi-disciplinary Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday 27 November, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt. Tim Sheppard, local storytelling group member, will be introducing the subject before we get down to the serious k-cafe business as usual. If [...]

Street party review

September 25th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Events, Facilitation

This is a little post about the good stuff you find on your own street, and the possibilities of bottom-up organisation in the wild. How many times have you said or heard ‘I don’t know my neighbours’, and felt that it just isn’t right? We organised a street party on Sunday 14th September. I highly [...]

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: Engagement, 11 September

August 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Events, Facilitation

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the beautiful Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday 11 September, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt. Jack Martin Leith (our local ‘now-to-new’ activist, group facilitator, and business consultant of 20 years) will be introducing us to the subject of [...]

Lessons learnt: Live Tag Surfing

July 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Events, Facilitation

This is a brief report and things we learnt while trialling our ‘live tag surfing‘ intervention at 2gether08. It was a brilliant event with a huge range of attendee-driven workshops, excellent plenary sessions, a very pro-active crowd in a lovely venue. The Policy Unplugged team hosted the event while the Germination team ran the event [...]

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 [...]

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: Unlearning, 26 June

May 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the beautiful Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday 26 June, from 18:30. Daniel Doherty from The University of Bristol has kindly agreed to lead us into the subject of ‘Unlearning’, and then we will discuss it in true K-cafe style, before a visit [...]

Media Sandbox final event report

May 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Events, Facilitation

This is a brief event report from the Media Sandbox final event on Tuesday 6 May, in Watershed, Bristol. While we were designing the launch event for the Media Sandbox project (November 2007) we had the end event in mind (seeing the project as a Community of Practice with a clear lifecycle), so there was [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral

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