Simon Hearn on Online Community Facilitation

I was going to say “online community management” in the title, because I know that is a hot search term, but I just could not do it. What Simon Hearn of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) does for his community of Outcome Mapping practitioners is facilitation, management, technology stewardship and plain old leadership. A couple … Continue reading Simon Hearn on Online Community Facilitation

MOIP #6: Get and Give Help Online With Liberating Structures

I’m shortening the title… Moving Online in Pandemic is now #MOIP! This is 6th in a series of posts about the tidal wave of moving online in the time of Covid-19. #1, #2, #3,  #4  and #5. Slides for the event mentioned here. And chat… I do get enthusiastic… and then things go fast and other things fall … Continue reading MOIP #6: Get and Give Help Online With Liberating Structures

Moving Online in Pandemic #5: This is the time of creative destruction

This is 5th in a series of posts about the tidal wave of moving online in the time of Covid-19. #1, #2, #3 and #4 … Slide deck and artifacts for the event. It is being said around the globe: move a bad meeting online and you have a terrible meeting. People are already in “zoom fatigue” … Continue reading Moving Online in Pandemic #5: This is the time of creative destruction

Moving Online in Pandemic: Preamble

EDITED: To include more on differentiation/integration. I had the terms all wrong. Go figure! And to add a link to a group for online facilitators considering how to support the rapid move to online meetings. Join here. I am going to share a series of blog posts over the next days about how to move … Continue reading Moving Online in Pandemic: Preamble

Moving Offline Liberating Structures Practices Online

My lovely Liberating Structures (LS) community of practice has a monthly newsletter. December’s will be around LS online and as I started marking up their draft, I realized it would be a good idea to get my thinking/practices more clearly outlined rather than trying to “think out loud” and potentially make a mess of their draft!  What I’m laying out … Continue reading Moving Offline Liberating Structures Practices Online