1. Ten tools I couldn't do without
(Blog/Blog)

... use it a lot in social reporting, for creating membership profiles or for creating tongue-in-cheek accounts of "what happened". Skitch: Also from plasq I couldn't live without this elegant little tool. ...

2. Identity and boundaries
(Blog/Blog)

... learned to straddle, stomp and pirouette across boundaries whereas I only know how to wriggle inside them. A lot of my social life uncomfortable because I feel like I'm disappointing people who want to ...

3. Integrating facilitation and social reporting
(Blog/Blog)

2009 saw me trying to integrate social reporting and facilitating in face-to-face workshops. My experience is that tools and workshop processes tend to get separated. Contrary to all the hype in our social ...

4. Launching into 2010
(Blog/Blog)

... internet arrangements in expensive hotels, especially in Western Europe. Let's face it. No-one uses social media. Who in your extended family and friends outside the professional world are using it? I ...

5. What makes early adopters of social media successful?
(Blog/Social Media)

Following the first question in my interview with Beth Kanter where she talked about the challenges to nonprofits of social media, I asked her what made early adopters successful. She tells the story of ...

6. Challenges of social media to nonprofits
(Blog/Social Media)

The other day I interviewed Beth Kanter, who thinks and writes profusely about how nonprofits can use social media. The interview (on my blog in four parts) was to share at a workshop with local development ...

7. When a blog post is not a blog post
(Blog/Social Media)

Still on the lines of the White House blog and how social media tools in themselves are not what it's about. This blog post from the White House is a great example. Read the post "Shooting Around With ...

8. Following the White House
(Blog/Social Media)

... who want to follow the new administration's lead. All's well EXCEPT it's not the tool or the platform that will perform for you. Signing your organisation up to all the in social media sites does not ...

9. Communication toolbox - or ode to the pdf
(Portfolio/Toolboxes)

... activities and processes that can help support the objectives of a workshop or meeting and include: Yellow Pages Directory Social Network Mapping Evening News Online Tools Facilitation Samoan Circle ...

10. A social reporting toolbox
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

2008 saw me doing more thinking about and developing my social reporting skills (see, for example, "From report writing to social reporting"). Social reporter was an expression I first heard ...

11. Social reporter - old school
(Blog/Setúbal Now)

If you are ever between Montes Altes and Monte Sapo in rural Alentejo, you should look up  Senhor António Pires Pereirra, social reporter of the old school. Senhor António's real ...

12. Sanity as in smart, sensitive and Silvia
(Blog/News)

... and I have a Jajah account for her so she can use the phone on my bill. Silvia is a budding facilitator, technology steward and social reporter. And she's super-smart. For now she wants to look after ...

13. Notes on using iMovie for social reporting
(Blog/Social Media)

I've been having fun (and getting frustrated) playing with Apple Mac's iMovie, Garage Band and QuickTime Pro . I put together some stills and notes made by social reporters at an event I was facilitating, ...

14. Situated social reporting
(Blog/Social Media)

I am immersed in thoughts about social reporting at the moment. The story that a community tells about itself - in words and pictures - is how the community makes sense of itself and is meaningful to members. ...

15. Who would you invite to talk about social innovation?
(Blog/News)

I've got the interesting job of creating a list of presenters to an event in Lisbon where we are looking for charismatic people working in the area of social innovation, with vision and who are good ...

16. Thinking public personal boundaries
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... and what sort of tool we use for inspiration and she talks about her own process for writing a blogpost. This got me thinking of my own process, taking the post on social reporting as an example...  ...

17. How do you work nowadays?
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... really looking forward to see what comes out of it. In the meantime I'm also intrigued to know what other people in my social circle would say about...: what the driving forces are in your work;  ...

18. From report writing to social reporting
(Blog/Social Media)

... groups I work for I have been slowly working on bringing together the idea of a report and the idea of social reporting; I've been trying to combine and extend the two genres. The idea of Social Reporter ...

19. Beyond individual tools and an individual's assumptions
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... approaches and expectations are different. What a wonderful context in which to work out our curriculum for connecting in ways that are beyond our individual uses of and assumptions about tools and social ...

20. Moving on with my identity
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... just that I don't have a name for it. At some stage I realised that it's something around social learning systems, but the name for what it is remains a bit slippery. So for now, having got to ...