As part of CPSquare’s “ Connected Futures ” workshop exploring the use of web technologies in the service of communities of practice, we (John Smith and I!) We were interested to hear about the development both because we are using a hosted version of the SMC as our “home base” this iteration of the workshop, and because Howard’s project is a nice example of community technology stewardship. asked Howard Rheingold to share a little bit about the Social Media Classroom (SMC) he developed as part of a MacArthur Foundation Award (A HASTAC award specifically).

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:

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. The  deeply embedded nature of technologies in communities has given rise to the role and function of technology stewardship , the work of people who know This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

This was interesting to me because I’m co-leading a short online workshop introducing social media in a global international development network. So what happens when I search for a narrower topic that might be of interest to my workshop colleagues, such as “ climate change ” or “ agricultural research ?” Tags: social media community Twitter search technology stewardship community indicator The folks over at BrandonHall, the learning folks who blog lots of interesting links, pointed out a value of Twitter that not all of us may have seen yet.

Last week I shared a podcast with Howard Rheingold on the Social Media Classroom as part of  CPSquare’s “ Connected Futures ” workshop. Tags: podcasts social media technology stewardship "Social Media Classroom" cp2tech0 This week we have a podcast with Sam Rose, one of the key developers of the Drupal based Social Media Classroom . Listen!

thought it would be handing in an upcoming workshop I’m facilitating for the CGIAR starting next week. Tags: international development non profits/ngos online interaction social media technology stewardship identit My friend and colleague, Shirley Williams, pointed me to a great resource on digital identity (DI) that she and her colleagues created for their students at Reading University in the UK.  It is called “ This Is Me .”

Yesterday kicked off the first of my Australian workshops and events with a morning on Technology Stewardship , and afternoon on Visual Facilitation then 2 rousing hours drawing on walls with the NSW KM Forum and the Sydney Facilitators Network . It is not (yet) too late to join us in Sydney today for the intro and advanced online community workshops! ...Tags: I don’t have all the slides up yet (Wednesday!),

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! “

We’re wrapping up our plans and materials for our new workshop, developed and presented by Beth Kanter, Beverly Trayner, Bronwyn Stuckey, Etienne Wenger, John D. We’re designing the workshop to support: Creating “a workshop as laboratory” Smith, Nancy White, Nick Noakes, Shawn Callahan, Shirley Williams, and Susanne Nyrop.It includes a lot of modeling of learning interactions, stratagems, and tactics using a dozen different social technologies.

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