communities & networks

Nancy White & Tony Karrer have put together the Comunities & Networks Connection. A vast content hub of good writing by cool people - many of whom you will already be familiar with but probably some new ones too.

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podcast - slow communities with nancy white

Nancy has been writing & talking a lot about "slow community" recently - video, slides & post here & here. Sadly Ed Mitchell couldn't join us as planned (but we'll nab him again in the future).

One thing we didn't tackle in the podcast was the matter of practical tactics: What should community members & coordinators do?

Answers on a postcard please...

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00:00 - Nancy's conversations about slow communities
03:30 - Matt's fast community anecdote
06:00 - When is slow appropriate?
06:30 - The importance of sustainability
07:15 - Fast is good for social media experiments
08:00 - We need to learn & reflect
10:30 - Rhythm, pausing & athletics
12:15 - Organisational seasons & hurricanes
14:00 - More is not necessarily better
15:30 - Community obesity
17:00 - Networks & comununities
18:00 - Admitting that you have a problem
20:00 - Mindfulness & self-awareness as critical skills
22:30 - Nancy applies the brakes with meditation
24:00 - What do we really need?

seattle sound

Yes - as the trip continues, the title references are getting worse. Seattle was spent in the awesome company of Nancy White and her kin. Nancy has forgotten more about online community development than I will ever know. We talked about her recent trip to Ethopia, her whitepaper with Shawn & Mark, the forthcoming book with John D Smith & Etienne Wenger, the fantastic work of the Skillet Street Food Company.

podcast - nancy white & ed mitchell - blended facilitation

I had a blast recording this session with Nancy White & Ed Mitchell on "Blended Facilitation". It's a bit on the long side but I am loathe to cut it. We'll probably do another one and Mr Mitchell has requested "more structure".

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• 00:50 - Ed talks about doing a mix of online & offline facilitation with the Media Sandbox.
• 04:00 - Nancy talks about 4 types of blending: Modalities (sight, sound, touch); Online/Offline; Individuals/Communities; Methods.
• 06:00 - Nancy discusses Seeds of Compassion.
• 09:50 - Matt mentions "extending the event horizon" & multi-modal poetry.
• 13:00 - Online and/or Offline?
• 15:30 - Ed's door intrusion leads to a discussion of Second Life.
• 19:20 - Different strokes (or tools) or different folks - provided there are overlapping experience.
• 22:30 - The thorny question of Generations (Y, X, Boomer) - going into broader diversity issues (e.g. participants from Africa with lo-bandwidth).
• 26:50 - Mindfulness, feedback & signals - the ethics of sharing community data.
• 30:10 - Facilitation + Manipulation = Facipulation.
• 34:00 - The public, the private & ambient exposure. Where are the boundaries?
  
• 38:50 - We hit the knotty question of identity
• 39:40 - We lay into the culture of expertise.
• 41:00 - I think we've all learnt a valuable lesson here, haven't we?
  

(It sounds like I'm cutting in & predicting what Ed & Nancy are saying but that's an artifact of the recording process, mostly - just shift my words back 10 seconds compared to Nancy & Ed)