In a way, they are a glimpse back into the early days of the practice of online facilitation. Online Facilitation Course Curriculum Rev  Aug 2002 ...Tags: Tags: facilitation online facilitation online interaction curriculu This curriculum and materials have not been updated in many years, but they are still a valuable resource that emerges from not only my work, but that of my teachers, Lisa Kimball , Howard Rheingold , Michele Paradise and many, many others. I

Today I put up a page on the workshops I’ve been doing, as well as outing my own graphic practices page . Here are the workshop offerings. Graphic Facilitation Workshops Beyond doing graphic recording myself , I offer two kinds of workshops on the practice of graphic recording 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.

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

The problem is that this person is not a Subject Matter Expert (SME), and does not have the interest, passion or time to facilitate the community in a non-technical way. Facilitation is not just technical design/support, part of it is monitoring how people use the community and encouraging things, and re-purposing others…I briefly listed Facilitator’s duties at the end of my post, Community of Practice for Facilitators : pilot, adoption and participation . I’m finding that some Communities of Practice (CoPs) at work are lacking leadership even though they have a community leader.

Workshop Description 98% rated the presenter’s delivery of the workshop as good to excellent. D epartment of State and Regional Development workshops to small business. It’s been almost a year since Making Links and your amazing workshop. This is a hands-on computer based social media course that takes you step by step through how to set up, monitor and measure a social media marketing campaign. We use case studies and work through a real world social media marketing campaigns by both teamwork and individual use of internet enabled PCs.

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.

It was in “helping” “save” the community after Howard lost funding that I had my first big online facilitation failure. It was my urgency to figure this out that set me on my professional path as a practitioner and learner about online facilitation. This was where I had the amazing opportunity to co-facilitate an online workshop with Mihaela Moussou (now Michele Paradise). This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

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It has been a while since I wrote about synchronous online facilitation is a focused way.  Facilitate!: She is an active online event designer, facilitator and technology steward.  Encourage facilitative practices from everyone, not just the facilitator. 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.

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.