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).

These roots are significant because our patterns of use, our ways of embracing or rejecting technology are grounded in this history. Online knew from that experience that whenever we talked about technology (social media) we needed to also talk about practice and the human beings doing the practicing. This is true of both the technology and the practices. 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 ?” How would a community technology steward use Twitter? 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. Twitter as a search engine.

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 .”

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:

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. includes a lot of modeling of learning interactions, stratagems, and tactics using a dozen different social technologies. We’re designing the workshop to support: Smith, Nancy White, Nick Noakes, Shawn Callahan, Shirley Williams, and Susanne Nyrop.It Getting to know each other, each other’s communities

It’s time to register for the Connected Futures Workshop that begins April 20. Note, you’ll get a pre-press copy of the now-infamous and as of yet still unpublished “Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for community” book, plus a 6 month membership to CPSquare. 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 I’m on the team again this time holding the fort on week 4. My partners in learning/crime