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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 write [...]

Interesting games lab

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Simon and the iglab collective in Bristol are running another night of games, gaming, game theory and other stuff like that down at the Pervasive Media lab on Tuesday 11 March. Anyone can come and all are welcome. :
This time it’s personal… thats not just hyperbole this month iglab has a theme. Personal relationships.
Recommended.

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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 [...]

What are facilitation and moderation

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation

A quick addendum about facilitation and moderation on online spaces before a longer post about strategy.

Pete Ferne and Dan Dixon grouping a mindmap at The Media Sandbox community launch event. Are they facilitating, moderating, re-purposing, or nothing at all?
Facilitation:
Is largely around helping people connect, share, and learn together; disrupting the walls that keep them [...]

Three types of online facilitation

January 19th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology

This post compliments my earlier post about the three types of community where I described three ways of looking at communities from the point of view of centricity and the login. It is meant to give you an idea about the challenges and opportunities offered to facilitators and community managers in an increasingly distributed online [...]

Three types of community

November 16th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Strategy, Technology

This is a brief overview of three community models. They are theoretical models, but they are ones I have used with a variety of people on a variety of real projects. They are very useful tools to abstract and discuss the myriad issues that communities throw up for their hosts to handle, starting with the [...]

Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral

Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation.