This post compliments my earlier post about the three types of community where I described three ways of looking at communities from the point of view of centricity and the login. It is meant to give you an idea about the challenges and opportunities offered to facilitators and community managers in an increasingly distributed online environment.
Facilitation is a rare and valuable skill to have. It is a service that is often used in conferences, debates, panels and tutorials, or simply where groups of people are meeting and need someone to help negotiate meaning and understanding, and to keep everyone engaged and on task.
This online course is designed to help people to access and interpret models, research, and develop professional expertise in online facilitation. Here is the course outline which includes course outcomes, assessments and a study schedule
Graphic recording at its core is visually capturing what is happening in a group or presentation. It is part of a large set of visual practices which use images as part of group processes, which includes graphic facilitation, collaborative graphics work, etc.
Jeremy Heimans visits the RSA to share his innovative model of "movement entrepreneurship", and to show how individuals can work more effectively with organisations and progressive companies to help mobilise large-scale, purposeful action.
From multiple observations come ideas. From multiple ideas can come new insights. From multiple insights we can create stories. From our stories, we can change beliefs. In a nutshell [my interpretation], this is what Gunther Sonnenfeld discusses in much greater detail in The Great Planning Paradigm.
The Collective Action Toolkit (CAT) is a package of resources and activities that enable groups of people anywhere to organize, build trust, and collaboratively create solutions for problems impacting their community. The toolkit provides a dynamic framework that integrates knowledge and action to solve challenges.
Hindsight is often 20/20. When we look to the past, we must guard against hindsight bias, where we assume more predictability to certain past events than actually existed. But rethinking the past is good practice.
Fasilitointiesimerkkejä S³ Platform: lisätukea tuottavuuden parantamiseen teollisuudessa ja palvelutaloudessa.
"S³ Platform is to provide information, methodologies, expertise and advice to national and regional policy makers, as well as contribute to academic debates around the concept of smart specialisation."
The critically acclaimed The Art of Community by Jono Bacon and published by O'Reilly brings together over a decade of experience in growing, empowering, and leading communities to success. Saatavilla pdf:nä http://ubuntuone.com/0n352YwUjlcFR8PjIELH67
