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Tag Archives: facilitation
Community facilitators
From Rich Millington: A moderator keeps things normal. A moderator removes the extremes from the community. Moderating isn’t as hard as moderators would have you believe. You can typically find community members to do it. A facilitator makes it easier … Continue reading
Posted in Communities
Tagged facilitation, feverbee, mdoeration, online communities, rich millington
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The importance of community management
One of the great arguments in favour of employing social web tools is the fact that they are pretty quick, and usually cheap, to put together. However, that’s not taking into account the other costs, one of which is managing … Continue reading
Posted in Communities, Featured, Social Media
Tagged community management, facilitation, moderation
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The need for community managers
Marshall Kirkpatrick, at ReadWriteWeb wrote a piece that caused a certain amount of flurry yesterday, asking whether startups need community managers: A community manager can do many things (see below) but the most succinct definition of the role that we … Continue reading
Planning workshops
I’m doing some work at the minute putting together the agenda for Tuesday’s socia media shindig in Coventry for members of the IDeA Social Media and Online Collaboration Community of Practice (…and breathe). It can be tricky keeping an eye … Continue reading
On facilitation
Had a great meeting today with two of my fellow facilitators at the Community of Practice for Knowledge Management in the Public Sector (don’t worry, we’re working on the name). The community has been running for a little while now … Continue reading
