Tags: online_communities online_facilitation humdo carmen saw so far ahead that, like the speed of light, she may continue to wait for us in the future. she wrote no small amount and i hope that this work can be assembled, collected, collated and reviewed. it is not that carmen deserves this, but instead that her eyesight deserves it.

The best way to facilitate this without disrupting the rest of the community is to create a place where people can have these discussions. Legion of Tech Organizer: BarCamp Portland Subscribe Blog RSS Feed (recommended) Yahoo Pipes Video Podcast Feed Yahoo Pipes Video Podcast on iTunes Uber: My Posts (Multiple Blogs) Subscribe to Fast Wonder by Email Favorite Books Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan Enders Game by Orson Scott Card Anything by John Irving Harry Potter Other books Im reading Events

Facilitation. No one person can (or should) respond to every question or comment, so the community manager is frequently in the position of facilitating the discussions. Legion of Tech Organizer: BarCamp Portland Subscribe Blog RSS Feed (recommended) Yahoo Pipes Video Podcast Feed Yahoo Pipes Video Podcast on iTunes Uber: My Posts (Multiple Blogs) Subscribe to Fast Wonder by Email Favorite Books Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan Enders Game by Orson Scott Card Anything by John Irving Warning : join() [ function.join ]: Invalid arguments passed in /mnt/local/home/fastwonderblog/fastwonderblog.com/wp-content/themes/k2/app/includes/info.php on line 648 "> Skip to content Fast Wonder Blog: Consulting, Online Communities, and Social Media Consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities through social media.Focused on online communities, open technologies, open source, web 2.0,

8221; I see the online community manager role as having several key elements: ongoing facilitation, content creation, evangelism, and community evolution. There are certainly many more tasks, but I suspect that 90% of the work falls into one of these four very broad categories. Ongoing Facilitation : This is probably the activity that most people think of first. I have been focused on recording new podcasts (which are Warning : join() [ function.join ]: Invalid arguments passed in /mnt/local/home/fastwonderblog/fastwonderblog.com/wp-content/themes/k2/app/includes/info.php on line 648 "> Skip to content Fast Wonder Blog: Consulting, Online Communities, and Social Media Consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities through social media.Focused on online communities, open technologies, open source, web 2.0,

The are many ways for a company to encourage or discourage participation in their community just by the way employees behave in the community, the way the community is facilitated, and how the infrastructure is maintained. Legion of Tech Organizer: BarCamp Portland Subscribe Blog RSS Feed (recommended) Yahoo Pipes Video Podcast Feed Yahoo Pipes Video Podcast on iTunes Uber: My Posts (Multiple Blogs) Subscribe to Fast Wonder by Email Favorite Books Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan Enders Game by Orson Scott Card Anything

think having this personal connection with their school really helps facilitate their activity on the network. Warning : join() [ function.join ]: Invalid arguments passed in /mnt/local/home/fastwonderblog/fastwonderblog.com/wp-content/themes/k2/app/includes/info.php on line 735 "> 3 Kevin December 1, 2008 at 5:58 pm Great article! Legion of Tech Organizer: BarCamp Portland Subscribe Blog RSS Feed (recommended) Yahoo Pipes Video Podcast Feed Yahoo Pipes

social media, RSS, blogging, and podcasting. Blog Consulting Starting Point Yahoo Pipes and RSS Hacks Speaking OpenID? About « Legion of Tech Ready for Ignite Portland on Feb 5? » I talked to Bill last week here in Portland, and he’s a really sharp community guy. Warning : join() [ function.join ]: Invalid arguments passed in /mnt/local/home/fastwonderblog/fastwonderblog.com/wp-content/themes/k2/app/includes/info.php on line 648 "> Skip to content Fast Wonder Blog: Consulting, Online Communities, and Social Media Consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities through social media.Focused on online communities, open technologies, open source, web 2.0,

And while this was an extreme case, EVERY facilitation job requires us to draw on these capacities to a greater or lesser extent. My experience of facilitating, and life, is that it’s somewhat tricky to try and predict what’s going to happen. learnt at the Applied Improv Conference earlier this year in Portland about amygdala hijacks (which someone wittily described as *not* a cocktail). I’m reminded, yet again, of the power of preparation over planning. During these last couple of weeks I’ve had to draw on all of my understanding of groups, capacity

The 2009 conference is in Portland, OR, USA November 13 - 15. Tags: Facilitation General Improv Learnin Today I was privileged to present at the Australian Institute of Training & Development Conference in Sydney. My session was about exploring six of the key improv ‘rules’ that I’ve found useful when using improv in workshops, for training, or for my own development.

They shouldnt be. R ecently I specified the requirements for collaboration: Collaboration entails findingthe right group of people (skills, personalities, knowledge,work-styles, and chemistry), ensuring they share commitment to thecollaboration task at hand, and providing them with an environment,tools, knowledge, training, process and facilitation to ensure theywork together effectively but I didnt define the term.The term is being cheapened ("collaboration tools", "collaborativeenvironments") to the point where in many peoples minds itsindistinguishable