It’s more about the social computing practitioner helping a CoP Facilitator help themselves. ie what are the conditions that a facilitator can create to get their CoP off the ground. What are the reasons for a pilot again? • Helps to discover and squash tech issues before release • Helps to discover and assist in user issues - that’s why a cross-section of people is important in the pilot • Deployment team can get an idea of early good practices, This is not a post about social computing deploying/piloting/adoption in general. All these are applicable

Graphic Facilitation Workshops Beyond doing graphic recording myself , I offer two kinds of workshops on the practice of graphic recording and facilitation. One focuses on the use of visuals associated with specific facilitation techniques and group processes, and the other is a simple, hands on introduction to graphic recording, also known as “I CAN DRAW.” Well, I guess it is time to walk my talk and declare I CAN DRAW. After doing it on the side, teaching it to others, I realized it was time to declare this part of my practice on my website.

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Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation. Blog About Ed Projects Services Three types of online facilitation January 19, 2008 – 9:01 pm This post compliments my earlier post about the three types of community where I described three ways of looking at communities from the point of view of centricity and the login. It is meant to give you an idea about the challenges and opportunities offered to facilitators and community managers in an increasingly distributed

One of the joys of facilitation is the opportunity to work across organisations and communities and observe similarities and differences. And I wondered what some of my friends and colleagues across the globe were noticing about facilitation, particularly the trends, and their hopes for facilitation in 2009. Here’s a wordle made from the responses to facilitation trends. I’ve ve noticed that there are a lot more similarities, especially in the challenges and aspirations, than differences.

Photo: participants in our workhshop on online facilitation In many situations non-ICT specialists want to organise some online conversations and are looking for a good online space. You work for a company and may be asked to guide the process to develop a platform. Now you're probably going into process to build a platform on your intranet. In these two different situations seem as A discussion forum functionality is key for this purpose, other things are nice to have but often blur the decision about the forum to choose. Situation 1 : You're looking for

It has been a while since I wrote about synchronous online facilitation is a focused way.  By better I mean more participatory, with attention to both the purpose of the gathering and the process. Design appropriate process: Think about your process design options. Alan Levine wrote a deliciously provocative post on last month that I’ve been meaning to comment upon, Five Ways to Run a Deadly Online Seminar . When I read it, my head was bobbing in agreement and recommendations.

When the going gets tough, they’ll take it out on anyone, including the facilitator. They’ll attack the process, anyone who’s not present, even the timing and the venue. Tags: Facilitatio The last couple of months have been so busy I’ve hardly had time to think about what I’ve learned, and sometimes, re-learned. So, now with a bit of precious time available, here’s a few bits and pieces that I’m recording here so as I don’t forget.

Candace Whitehead, the Facilitator Support Specialist for the Florida Online Reading Professional Development project  funded by the Florida DOE and housed at the University of Central Florida  [link] contacted me last month inviting me to participate in a web meeting with the cohort of online facilitators working in learning and particularly around literacy issues. Now that some very crude and un-scientific definitions of engagement are on the table, let’s look at how we, as facilitators, can encourage engagement online. The chance to have a conversation with practitioners is always an automatic YES for me.

People have to fill in a request form that asks them various questions highlighting the committment and facilitation required. Once 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, structure , types, community indicators, shared identity, how they are different to networks, sustainability, etc… This is a follow-up to my Community Lessons post, and Community paradox post. Top-Down community creation