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 'theory'
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
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 [...]
Tags:design·Facilitation·networking·networks·personality·theory
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. [...]
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 [...]
Tags:community·engagement·Facilitation·model·moderation·process·Strategy·theory
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags:community·Facilitation·model·onlinefacilitation·online_facilitation·theory
Three types of community
November 16th, 2007 · 10 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 [...]
Tags:centralised de-centralised·community·distributed·model·theory
