Archive for July, 2009

91 insightful seconds about online community

If you’ve got a spare 1 minute 31 seconds take a look at this short video from Nancy White. Logoactivo sums it up in his comment: “That´s great advice: “getting good at asking questions”. Incredible, in less than 5 seconds she´s made it clearer than any 2 hour social media conference!” Pithy, to the point. [...]

Using video to tell your story

Telling stories using video is something that Nathalie Hofsteed and Lee Hales at Give a little are pretty excited about. They recently told me about plans to make it easy for organisations to share video updates via their donation pages. Give a little are on a mission to make it easy for fundraisers to account [...]

Moving on from CommunityCentral

As I gaze out my home office window (which I do in exceedingly rare moments when I’m day dreaming turning over thorny ideas) I can see a kowhai gently bending with the breeze. The plant is a farewell gift from the partners behind CommunityCentral.  My paid role Project Manager came to an end last week [...]

Facilitating online course: introduction

The true meaning of consensus was something the Canterbury University Peace group wanted to get to the bottom of. Before we could act we needed an ethical basis for making decisions. From a philosophical standpoint, we needed to decide on things together in a non-coercive way. To do otherwise was considered as a form of [...]

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