Nevertheless, I had the feeling that you mainly talk with the facilitator and less as a group. I've interviewed Rinus about his way of facilitating a twitter chat. Why did you start facilitating Twitter Chats? It started with a movie that I saw about Twitter Tuesday for the U.S. Maybe it is lack of time, perhaps it is by ignorance. How do you facilitate your own chat? As moderator I start the discussion with a question or statement. I've now participated in three Twitter chat sessions. The first time was I late, I arrived on the scene towards

Anyhow here's a translated post: (foto door cheryljns ) I've started in January with an online course 'Think till you are thin" ' Denk je slank in Dutch ' It works I lost 4 kilos!). It is an online training so also signed up out of curiosity to see how they shape the course. It is a kind of online grafitti wall where any participant can post on any topic. Note: this is a translation of a Dutch blogpost. I'm thinking how to continue with a Dutch and an English blog.

First, is an old discussion summary from the Online Facilitation list from 2003, compiled by Chris Lang which still has value to me. You an find it here   TIPs for Facilitating Lurking If full participation is a stated requirement (as in a job or a course) one must find ways to facilitate and enable that participation. I was asked about some useful references on lurking and lurkers this week, so I thought I’d refresh  myself with a few that I like. (I’ve I’ve written about it here on the blog quite often over the years!)