I am a big fan of the iShed‘s ‘Media Sandbox‘ programme. I have been lucky enough to facilitate some of their big events, which have been excellent learning opportunities as well as good facilitation excercises. The launch event for Media Sandbox 2009 included an exercise we called ‘Golden rules‘ which is now providing me with [...]
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Gurteen K-cafe report: Generosity, 04/02/09
February 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Events, Facilitation
February’s Bristol Gurteen Knowledge cafe was a heart warming eye in the storm of some very exciting UK winter weather. Steve Bridger gave us a great presentation around and about the subject of Generosity which left us with plenty to think about, personally, publicly and professionally. And Jesus’ social network, but that’s another story… After [...]
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igfest review
September 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation
This is a brief personal reflection on igfest, the three day games festival which took place in Central Bristol from 19th to 21st September. I was a voluntary member on the organising team, mentored some of the games, ran a game on the day, and generally helped out. I was immediately drawn to igfest as [...]
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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 [...]
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Media Sandbox case study
March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
(Most of the Media Sandbox projects) Introduction This is high level case study about the blended facilitation work ongoing with the Media Sandbox commissioning scheme managed by iShed. Here is the descriptive blurb: Bringing together leading technology, artistic and media talent, Media Sandbox is a new commissioning scheme to support South West companies/organisations to research [...]
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Media Sandbox case study at Social tools conference 2008
January 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
The latest in Unicom’s Social Tools conference series is on the 5th and 6th March in London. This one is called Web 2.0 and Beyond: Applying social and collaborative tools to business problems. As before, it will be chaired by David Gurteen, and there are some great speakers (including me, ahem). This time I am [...]
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Media Sandbox event report
December 10th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Events, Facilitation
This is a brief write up of the Media Sandbox launch event on Thursday 29th November in Watershed, Bristol.The event was the beginning of newly formed iShed‘s ‘Pervasive Media Sandbox’ commissioning scheme (which you can read more of on the Media Sandbox site). I designed and facilitated it, working closely with Clare Reddington and Emma [...]
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