It was in “helping” “save” the community after Howard lost funding that I had my first big online facilitation failure. It was my urgency to figure this out that set me on my professional path as a practitioner and learner about online facilitation. This was where I had the amazing opportunity to co-facilitate an online workshop with Mihaela Moussou (now Michele Paradise). This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

My topic is “Online Facilitation 13 Years On: What We Learned and What Do We Need to Learn?” So I’m wondering, what is YOUR history of online facilitation? The fabulous ScOPE online community asked these sorts of questions in a 2007 online event facilitated by my friend Nick Noakes , and it was fun to go back and reread them. (Link In just over a week I’ll be in Ft. Worth, Texas, opening Monday’s session of the Elearning 2010 Conference .

DavidSibbet.com I am President and Founder of The Grove Consultants International; organizational consultant and information designer for more than 30 years, building on eight prior years of experience in leadership development; author of leading-edge group process tools and models for facilitation, team leadership, and organizational transformation; a master facilitator of large-scale group processes, strategic visioning, organization change, and creative, future-oriented symposia. These reflections are for my colleagues worldwide.

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Facilitate, and you will thrive. Recently I went to see an organization, and a good while into a very pleasant conversation I was asked: Will we (organization) become obsolete in ten years? To a large extent managing is replaced by facilitating. Facilitate, dont manage! So, wrapping up all these thoughts, my answer was something along these Headshift London | New York | Paris | Sydney | Zurich about projects blog themes Search smarter, simpler, social tools for business Categories Add category

This comes from 20 years of doing facilitation both on and offline, running several software companies, and running various forums at America Online. Essentially, as we increase group sizes beyond 80, to 150, 200, or even 350-500, we typically do so by breaking larger groups down into smaller ones, and continually reducing community sizes down to the point where they can be understood and managed by people -- and so efficiency reasserts itself. Since this post was originally posted, I have added a number of other posts about the Dunbar Number and group size issues: 2005-02: Dunbar

The social aspect was that blogs and media sites facilitated not just publishing, but conversation. Social network sites encourage their users to create rich profiles that can be used to facilitate connection, to identify connections with people on the network that they already know, and to invite their friends to join and connect. Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky on November 6, 2007 9:25 PM EMAIL THIS ENTRY TO: YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS: MESSAGE (optional): Feb 25, 09 About Stuff Shelter Cities Community Business Politics Planet The Value of Connections Jon Lebkowsky October 30, 2007 1:32 PM Ive been struggling with social networks and social network platforms: I have a lot of thoughts about them, all clamoring for attention in my head, and Im to create neat square boxes for my thoughts, the way consultants do when they create those neat clearly-articulated lists that are supposed to show off their expertise.

2004). The expansion of the Internet has facilitated the development of "networked individualism." Learning and Knowledge Leadership Networks A birds eye view: Using social network analysis to improve knowledge creating and sharing . June, 2002. Based on a social network analysis of information flow among IBMs top 20 executives, this case study demonstrates the difference between formal and informal leadership networks, identifies four dimensions of relationships that are critical for knowledge flow, and suggests ways to strengthen knowledge networks. leadernetwork FrontPage Search wiki: Home Edit page Log in Add features Help Welcome to our living bibliography on leadership networks.

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This exactly what we did in 2004 when we swapped Word doc attached to emails for a blog to support an executive task force at a large hospital. This stealth approach was especially important in 2004 when blogs were seen as the domain of teenagers and geeks. Designated community managers should serve as facilitators and moderators.” Jakob Nielsen is a guru on intranets. He recently posted an extensive piece on Social Networking on Intranets that addressed adoption issues for enterprise 2.0