This is as brief as possible a report on the Transition Network web project, specifically funded by Tudor Trust with £50,000 in 2008. This report covers the period of January 2009 until December 2011. It is made up of some contextual background, brief outlines about the central project elements, two key stories, some figures, and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'management'
End of project report for Transition Network web project
January 31st, 2012 · No Comments · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
Tags:community·engagement·Facilitation·lessonslearnt·management·Technology·theory·transition
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
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 [...]
Skillswap report on project management
March 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation
(thanks for the space, Pervasive Media Studio!) We had some good talks and discussion around the topic of ‘Project Management’ at last week’s Skillswap: Joe Leech talked about being a small cog in many bigger systems: Presentation Laura Francis talked about how she uses Agile Fraser Stephens discussed the ‘what to’s of Prince2: Presentation Eben [...]
Tags:bristol·event·Facilitation·management·project·skillswap
skillswap project management
March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation
Joe Leech and I are convening March’s Skillswap in the Pervasive Media Lab. It’s called ‘Project manage this!’, and is about project management. I was a project manager once; there wasn’t enough human in it for me and way too much detail, but I remain deeply impressed by a good intelligent emotionally sensitive (but not [...]
Tags:bristol·event·Facilitation·management·project·skillswap
