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 'Technology'
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
Media Sandbox showcase and publication launch
October 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Technology
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags:bristol·community·event·experience·skillswap·Technology·usability·user
Community members opinions and how to handle them
May 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation, Technology
As you might know, I find equal inspiration for group facilitation from the online and offline worlds. As well as this, I find inspiration from books and blogs etc. just as much as it exists in pubs, parties, festivals and life on the streets around me – there are lessons to be learnt all over [...]
Supporting physical communities with virtual tools presentation
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Strategy, Technology
I presented a short story at Steve Moore’s ‘All Together Now’ gathering, hosted by Sport England at Channel Four yesterday; it was fun. Also speaking were Gi Fernando, Antony Mayfield, Mark McGuiness, and it was all chaired by Rebecca Caroe. It was great as I got to talk about sport stuff, and communities, and virtual [...]
Tags:bristol·centre·climbing·community·design·Facilitation·groups·Technology
Methods to engage people with technology
January 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Strategy, Technology
If you are in London on February 13th, and are interested in how to do the right sort of thinking in advance of ‘I want a community’, go to this event (Thank you Petef for pointing me to it): Digital networks and computer systems remain obscure to most people until something goes wrong. What if [...]
Facilitation and hosting
November 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Facilitation, Technology
Johnnie Moore just wrote almost exactly the post I was about to write about David Snowden’s post referring to Chris Corrigan’s post about facilitation and hosting. I’m not really a ‘blogger’ blogger who blogs about other people’s blogs because others do it better, but thought this too interesting not to, so I suggest you read [...]
