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This is a report on the BBC Learning Unplugged event in Bristol, 26 June 2009. James Richards ( BBC Learning Development ) and Myles Runham (BBC Learning) co-hosted the event with Clare Reddington ( Ished ); I designed and facilitated it with help from Jack Martin Leith . There were approximately 65 attendees, made up of 15 BBC folk and 50 creative (and) technology types from around the country. This report is split into the following: Event purpose

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

The classic example here is the systemicoveruse of email as the means to facilitate each of the Cs. In fact, whenintegrated in a platform, social tools can facilitate new models ofinteraction, co-creation, collective intelligence, networking and userparticipation, whilst supplementing traditional face-to-face, telephoneand email communications. Practices that are so well supported by new socialtechnologies, such as facilitating social connections between employeessplit by geographical Headshift London | New York | Paris | Sydney | Zurich about projects blog themes Search Investigating the relationship between communication, coordination, cooperation and collaboration. Categories

As a facilitator, try to be online 10 minutes earlier and have all skype addresses in advance, so that you can easily add everyone to the chatspace. As if I was trying to receive a BBC broadcast during WW-II. The facilitator could try the following:”mute all participated and unmute them one by one, to see where some noise was coming from. Using supporting tools. When you don’t know how to ride a bike, walking is always faster! An online conference call seems like a simple, cheap and accessible way for bringing a distributed group together. As we use our e-collaboration

That most of us are not fluent community facilitators is something that will almost certainly be addressed as a vital new workplace ability and one that we will have to acquire diligently to work effectively in the future. KickApps is a relatively new up-and-comer that is getting wide distribution in a relatively short time period including major wins with large public Web sites for ABC and the BBC. On BNET: 6 ways to boost a netbook's power BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet all ZDNet in Blogs in News in Downloads in Reviews in Whitepapers in Dictionary Go! Members Log In Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe

is not the right question .   It’s more important to ask and understand “what you can do to encourage and facilitate connections?”, supplemented with tools, capabilities and socially-generated context, to help the appropriate information and knowledge be available when and where it is most needed and best used.   This means that a much-needed role and focus is as a catalyst and facilitator of connections, helping others see why it is now this way and how things work 3.        Knowledge transfer is self-assembling and self-organizing .   It really can’t be otherwise … it is

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It can enable and facilitate communication and network interaction - if implemented and rolled out properly - but it doesn’t make it happen. Firstly, there’s the sudden growth of Facebook within existing employees - the choice there is to tolerate it and count the benefits (more connected social networks, greater sense of commonality and so on) or to focus on the downside (timesink, waste of resourses, non-officially sanctioned communications) and choke it off. Interesting to note that the big consultancies and media organisations like the BBC have gone for the former (the

A few years back I might have agreed, but since then Ive been blogging a lot, joining social networks, and have ended up with a lot of online relationships around issues of engagement, facilitation, organisational development and social media. Its no longer one place, it is distributed. Fortunately my friend Ed Mitchell is a not only a great online and workshop facilitator, he also spends the time needed to think all this through at both practical and theoretical level. Designing for Civil Society David Wilcox on social media, engagement, collaboration ABOUT Mainly about engagement and collaboration using social media and events, with some asides on living in London.