Community Leadership and Facilitation A subset is online community management but I’ll confess to placing more emphasis both on facilitating vs managing and servant leadership vs top-down leadership. These are seated in well known group facilitation theory and practices with the additional needs of an online environment. It has become clear. I’m long-winded on the topic of new skills for knowledge workers and learning professionals, even if I don’t quite understand what a learning professional is.

In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. September 25, 2008 Facilitation, Objectivity, Worldviews, Innovation and Coping with Complex Problems I mon my way from San Jose to Vancouver and thence to Bowen Island for acourse on The

By understanding this orientation gap the technology steward can start introducing tools to facilitate the future orientation needs. It is a series of checklists to help you think about the role of the technology steward. Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities by Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John D. Smith

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If, as an example, board effectiveness is measured by board participation and enthusiasm, or by an accountability-for-the-means checklist - but not by the extent to which that board is aggressively pursuing the organization’s vision and mission in the community - is that really “best?” By scrapping the Best Practice board recruitment matrix, we can facilitate the group’s wisdom instead, asking such questions as: The term Best Practice has always made me nuts. In the past week, though, I am convinced the term is following me!

They provide a checklist and a reminder. In facilitation it’s easy to get stuck in a rut. Whenever I feel too safe or too comfortable facilitating, I use this as a spur to challenge myself, to explore what other approaches or processes might be suitable. Tags: Facilitation Impro Recipes have their place. They are a guide.

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Via my husband and Checklist, a Dutch blog , I found Ning . Tags: web2.0_tools technology online facilitatio Though I don't even try to keep up with all the new tools that are thrown on the internet, but I must say this looks just like the kind of tool I was waiting for. It gives you the opportunity to build an online platform in a super-user-friendly and easy way!

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If there is a group of people who want to learn together over time, is there sufficient conditions to nurture the community such as leadership and facilitation? Online CoPs , we’ve learned, really benefit from facilitation. Once I review that form I meet with the proposed community leader and talk to them about communities, domain, people (community), practice (output), tools, methods, participation, facilitation, [...] Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Sep 07 2008 Communities of Practice Series with Darren Sidnick #1 Published by Nancy White at 4:21 pm under communities of practice , learning I mentioned a while back I was guest blogging