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Jan 12 2024

A BuddyPress forum as part of group configuration

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Creating a cohesive and engaging online collaboration group using various digital platforms can be challenging work. In Digital Habitats, we called this a group or community’s configuration. Thinking about the configuration is necessary, can be rewarding, but needs to be intentional. Here are some specific ideas to effectively integrate Zoom meetings, Google Groups, Google Shared […]

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Nov 20 2021

Conference call practices to generate knowledge and record learning

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This is a re-post from an article posted in December 2007 that was retrieved from the Wayback machine at Sean Murphy’s (https://www.skmurphy.com/) suggestion. By John D. Smith (http://learningalliances.net ) and Shawn Callahan (http://www.anecdote.com.au) with comments from Madelyn Blair This practice note has seven parts: Practice summary Audience “Before the call” methods “During the call” methods “After […]

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Apr 30 2020

A conversation about chats and virtual events

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My friend Caren and I recorded a conversation about an online (Zoom) event that I hosted today. I described my process and we explored topics such as: Planing events Setting up chat ice-breakers Knitting together the different elements, tools, events across time Creating safe – and sacred – spaces and more Here’s the video! An […]

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Apr 20 2020

Chat for reflection and inquiry

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The coronavirus is offering more opportunities to facilitate online meetings and therefore reflect on how I use chat to bring people together and help them connect more deeply. I have a little chat structure that I’m using again and again, with variations. It involves a series of chat prompts, where everyone is instructed to reflect […]

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Apr 16 2020

Putting chat transcripts to work

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I’ve been writing about how to get more from chat transcripts for a long time. And a recent count in Evernote shows chat history back to 2013 (105 of them containing notes from one-to-one conversations with learning partners). Recently I’ve found a couple methods that make a chat even more useful. I want to throw […]

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Mar 10 2020

A field trip agenda – for better meetings

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I’m always inspired by Nancy White, and this effort to respond to COVID-19 is a perfect example of why. It reminded me that I’ve been sitting on a “field trip agenda” that I developed to help people on the Shambhala Process Team hold better meetings on Zoom. I’m sharing it here, as is, since perfection […]

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Nov 22 2019

Reconnecting a community — in public

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I sat down with my friend Howard Silverman to talk about prototyping methods for connecting a community to itself. The particular community of practice that I’m working with connects face-to-face (or doesn’t connect sometimes) but is also connecting via the Internet: via the Presencing Institute‘s U.Lab MOOC, through a global network of similar meditation centers […]

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Dec 08 2008

Community as lens

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CPsquare has a long tradition of holding “sidecar events,” where we meet before or after (and hang out together during) a related conference. In October, we had a sidecar event after the AoIR 9.0 meeting in Copenhagen. The larger conference justifies the effort and expense of travel and gives a smaller (day long) CPsquare event […]

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