Then sign up now for the next Social Media Workshop offered by the ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR. After a successful pilot online event (See blog posts about the event ), the CGIAR, through its ICT-KM Program , is pleased to offer an online Social Media Workshop from May 25 to June 12 2009. “Social Objective of the workshop: Introduce researchers, communications professionals and knowledge sharing practitioners to social media tools and support their social media Do you work for an international development NGO? Here are the details:

I'm working with Maarten de Laat and Marc Coenders to prepare a Dutch online workshop about online communities of practice in September. In between, we use the online workshop space and skype sessions to discuss. Marc and Maarten have already facilitated an online workshop together, but I haven't, so we really need this time to get used to each other and become a team. We meet every month face-to-face to talk through the design, which is slowly cristallyzing. We involve two mentors and former participants in the design phase.

It seems like we just finished the last one, but here it comes again… the next Social Media for International Development Sector Workshop from the ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR . From the learnings from the successful pilot (See blog posts about the event), and second  Social Media Online Workshop, the CGIAR through its ICT-KM Program, is pleased to offer a new online opportunity for social media explorations, this time with the specific objective to embed social media in participants’ contexts of international development work. I’m really looking forward to facilitating it with Simone and Pete! “

This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. This was where I had the amazing opportunity to co-facilitate an online workshop with Mihaela Moussou (now Michele Paradise). Just today I received an email from one of the people who took our workshop and he wrote “I still remember your course as one of the absolute best courses in my life. I figured it would be good to exercise my memory a bit and unearth some of the key stories that led me to to my social media use today, and perhaps surface some of

It’s time to register for the Connected Futures Workshop that begins April 20. Connected futures: New social strategies and tools for communities of practice is a five-week workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support them (referred to by some as Web2.0). This workshop is a hands-on, practice-shifting, dive into the use of new technologies to meet community needs. I’m on the team again this time holding the fort on week 4. My partners in learning/crime are John Smith , Bronwyn Stuckey , Shirley

Recently he realized he wasn’t so clear on orientations 7, 8 and 9 so this past weekend we hooked up on Skype and talked through them. BTW the community orientation exercise simply involved getting the participants of the workshop to plot on a radar chart, which I’d drawn on a whiteboard, where they thought the community was currently and then do this again for where they would like to see the community of 12 months time. Our friend Shawn Callahan has been following the work on the book - for years! He has been privy to various drafts and has recently been using the

However, that is a pretty rosy view when we consider the competition a course or workshop has against everything else going on in our lives. They can meet in a web meeting room or even just on an instant messenger or Skype. This is the nineth in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick  late last year in the context of communities of practice as part of online learning initiatives. I

One year ago we had a workshop on e-collaboration which was the start for what now is a learning network, with 60 members, regular meetings a d-group and a weblog. We were very happy with the opportunity offered by PSO to provide us with the assistance of an experienced learning facilitator, John Smith to help us in that process John Smith started of with a number of Skype interviews, both with active and less members of the e-collaboration network and with the organising committee. Based on the input of John Smith , learning facilitator Don't plan ahead too far, outline a few steps, practice a lot .

same came up in the online facilitation workshop I mentioned in the last posting!). Specific design differs from general designs (like skype or Gmail) which happen to match southern users' interests. in smaller or larger groups. * The question whether sometimes southern partners are not ahead of northern partners in adopting some distance communication technologies (especially for easy-to-use, free technologies like skype) came up several times. During this day on e-collaboration for development organisations (I mentioned in the last post), lots of interesting experiences came up.

Recently he realized he wasn’t so clear on orientations 7, 8 and 9 so this past weekend we hooked up on Skype and talked through them. BTW the community orientation exercise simply involved getting the participants of the workshop to plot on a radar chart, which I’d drawn on a whiteboard, where they thought the community was currently and then do this again for where they would like to see the community of 12 months time. Our friend Shawn Callahan has been following the work on the book - for years! He has been privy to various drafts and has recently been using the Community