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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Facilitation'
The Five Golden Rules for multi-platform development
December 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Facilitation
Tags:advice·community·conference·design·event·Facilitation·golden·media·mediasandbox·multi-platform·participationpatterns·patterns·rules·sandbox·story·storytelling·watershed·workshop
Conference networking at Online Information 2008: report and lessons learned
December 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Facilitation
This is a brief report and things we learned about the experimental ‘knowledge networking’ and ‘social reporting’ facilitation work done at Online Information 2008, co-authored between David Wilcox and Emma Wallace and me. We worked with Lorna Candy and the team at Incisive Media to help them provide more networking opportunities for delegates and speakers [...]
Tags:cafe·consultants·Facilitation·information·knowledge·mindmap·mitchell·online·onlineinfo·onlineinfo08·onlineinfo2008·onlineinformation·socialreporting·tagsurfing·topics·wallace·wilcox·work
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 [...]
Tags:community·culture·Facilitation·llosa·mario·narrative·story·storytelling·vargas
Wanted: real questions for digital communications innovation lab
November 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Technology
Do you or your organization have a question about how to use digital communication technologies that you would like a room full of experts to workshop for free? Are there people you feel you could engage with in new ways with these new technologies? A campaign you want to support? A service you wish to [...]
Tags:bristol·event·Facilitation·launch·media·mediasandbox·sandbox·Strategy·work
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 [...]
Tags:blended·community·Facilitation·knowledge·lessonslearnt·media·mediasandbox·organisation·report·sandbox·Strategy·web2
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 [...]
Tags:4talent·community·conference·Facilitation·maverick·work·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
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 [...]
Bristol Gurteen K-cafe report: Engagement
September 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Events, Facilitation
About 20 of us met up in the Pervasive Media Studio on the 11th September to discuss ‘Engagement’. Jack Martin Leith gave a highly thought provoking 15 minute presentation on the subject covering a range of angles as broad as the history of PR to inter-personal relationships, and how ‘Engagement’ covers so many bases. Discussions [...]
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 [...]
