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 provide? [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Strategy'
Wanted: real questions for digital communications innovation lab
November 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Technology
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 the full [...]
Tags:blended·community·Facilitation·knowledge·lessonslearnt·media·mediasandbox·organisation·report·sandbox·Strategy·web2
Customer Engagement Survey the third
September 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Strategy
E-consultancy and cScape are running their third Customer Engagement Survey until 21st October. I recommend you take a few minutes to fill it in. As well as getting a free report later, simply by reading the survey you are asking yourself some interesting questions.
Here’s the blurb:
The questionnaire takes five minutes to complete, including questions on:
• [...]
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 folk, [...]
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 bit of [...]
Tags:casestudy·community·event·Facilitation·socialmedia·speaking·sport·Strategy
Ideas for a troubled economy
March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Strategy
Richard Sedley and his Customer Engagement Unit team are publishing a timely new book called: “Winners and Losers in a troubled economy”. Here is some blurb:
With all the talk and early signs of an economic downturn the pressure on businesses to prove ROI on their marketing activities is greater than at any other point in [...]
Tags:cscape·e-consultancy·economy·engagement·marketing·models·Strategy
Strategic planning for group spaces
February 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Facilitation, Strategy
Here are some high level thoughts outlining things you might do when planning for a new community or ‘common purpose networking tool’ (thanks Ben), or group space, or network enabler, and how you might go about doing it in such a way as to get the most benefit for all actors in the system.
I show [...]
Tags:community·engagement·Facilitation·model·moderation·process·Strategy·theory
Risks when setting up new communities
February 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation, Strategy
The online community managers’ mailing list emint is on fire at the moment. Either we’ve all been visited by the participation fairy, or there is a lot going on in community land. I’m a believer in the second theory, as fairies don’t exist, and it is a delight to see good brains moving back into [...]

