Ben asks the question, “Why isn’t there more great work in the interactive space?”, But it’s generated a fascinating open conversation about a big problem: what do advertising agencies need to do about digital, or interactive, or whatever it’s called? We’ve been creating web applications for almost a decade and avoided interactive advertising, banners and buttons. This post has been brewing inside of me for some time. It’s has finally been burped-up precipitated by Ben Malbon’s provocative post at BBH Labs (yes, we are genetically

Build this into your process, especially at the start of an interaction when people don’t know each other and technology issues may not yet be sorted out. People who are always on and respond quickly experience online interaction differently than those who log on less frequently. (Gilly Like a first time runner, groups “heartbeats” have to be faster at first to build relationships, establish 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.

We’ve just published our latest white paper, Interaction in Advertising , which is summarised below. The paper discusses examples of campaigns that are putting interaction in advertising into practice and highlights the risks and benefits of the developing trend. Included in the paper: From ‘interactive’ to ‘interaction’ Brands are switching from paid display advertising to promoting themselves through branded online communities, virtual worlds/games and social media. The paper examines how advertising is evolving from a one-way communicative process (the advertiser telling the consumer what they should be thinking), to a more collaborative, engaging format where brand and consumer communicate with an open dialogue.

Source: Using online icebreakers to promote student/teacher interaction 2. Source: Using online icebreakers to promote student/teacher interaction 3. This will loosen them up and cause a few to chuckle before embarking on a whole new way of thinking…using technology instead of paper and pen Source: Using online icebreakers to promote student/teacher interaction 4. For the third time I was going through all my resources- files and bookmarks to find online icebreakers. I

Breaking presentations down into 7-10 minute segments alternated with interactive periods to maintain engagement. Interact: Content can be compelling, but if you have people’s attention, why not focus on interaction and conversation and save the pushing of content for asynchronous. Encourage people to welcome each other and move away from a hub/spoke form of interaction. 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

Tags: facilitation online facilitation online interaction back_channe A DM Tweet today caused me to go and look and see what resources I’ve posted on the blog about back channel work.  For me,  back channel refers to a number of things that fall into two broad categories: back channel as a text based channel used at live events for a way for participants to be in the conversation

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. In a way, they are a glimpse back into the early days of the practice of online facilitation.

There are a few interactive- web2.0 Of course with interactive maps the data depend on the number of participants willing to add their information to the maps. I got a question from someone about maps. I thought I could list a few mapping services I came across.

think that's the habit that people who start their online interaction journey have to develop too. ...Tags: Tags: online interactio I'm very proud that I built a website on my own domain name with an integrated weblog using Wordpress . You can visit it at www.joitskehulsebosch.nl . I'm meeting more people who want to set up their own Wordpress

For this post, community is defined as a group of people with bounded membership who have some shared, congruent interest and interact with each other over time. The 8 Competencies of Online Interaction ( Audio , slides ) and tons on my blog . It can include one-time or repeat interaction. 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.