A long time ago in a planet far far away, a group of people asked if I could share some of my web meeting tips. I have a lot of tips, most of them learned from many many colleagues from all over, both from watching the masters work and from resources they have created. Finally, … Continue reading So You Want to Host a Web Meeting? A Resource
Note: this is an update of an older article I wrote on online facilitation. You might say, this has been steeping for a while. đ I have both updated it, and tweaked it to meet the needs of the Project Community Course at the Hague Technical University. But it has more general applicability. What is … Continue reading An Overview of Online Facilitation
What follows is a mish-mashed report on an online event from December 2014. I know better than to procrastinate this long… Last month Laurie Webster invited me to do a web gathering with her as part of a free series she has been offering. She is a pro with all sorts of quantitative processes and … Continue reading Graphic Facilitation and Sense Making > The Sum of its Arts
There is a useful post on the HBR blog by Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg that is a good follow-on to yesterday’s post about webinars. Thomas talks about the mismatch between the intention for interaction with the audience, and the poor design of most Q&A sessions that happen after keynotes or talks. Here is a snippet, then I have some … Continue reading Good Suggestions for “Fixing the Q&A” Session
Last Friday I was lucky to be the Mid Atlantic Facilitator’s Network February speaker. Of course, instead of talking about something I was totally comfortable with, I decided to explore the application of Liberating Structures to knowledge sharing, AND to explore the use of the structures in an online “webinar” environment. Nothing like jumping off … Continue reading Liberating Structures for Knowledge Sharing