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Jan 272012
I recently had the pleasure of reading the book “Social Media for Trainers – Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning” by Jane Bozarth (published by Pfeiffer in 2010). It is a wonderfully practical and concrete book that I can warmly recommend to anyone working with groups in the capacity of a trainer, coordinator or leader. The main tools presented in the book are Twitter, Facebook, blogs and wikis. All of [full post]
Oct 192011
There must have been a time when people were genuinely enthusiastic to attend conferences. Nowadays, however, people are sometimes complaining about having to go as conferences are increasingly seen as talkshops that do not contribute to getting your own work done. The conference is of course fighting back bravely, by having interactive, participatory programmes instead of one key note after another. Still, in order to convince potential participants, it is [full post]
Oct 042011
Is it possible to organise a transparent, truly participatory meeting with, say, 500 individuals and to come to real consensus based on literally everyone’s input? With an Internet connection for all participants, one or two good facilitators and a budget it is. At the IAF Benelux Conference Facilitation as (2nd) Profession I participated in a workshop on Synthetron, led by Paula van der Knaap and Jeanette Kalthof. Synthetron is a [full post]
Sep 282011
If you’re not sure why you should want to be on Twitter in the first place, you might wonder why a post on twitter chats could possibly interest you. Well, maybe because a twitter chat is one of the interesting features of twitter! In a twitter chat a lot of Twitters useful characteristics are brought together: sharing, building relationships, networking, getting to the point, to name a few. Last week [full post]
Aug 312011
Keeping track of everything you find on the Internet is a potentially tedious task. Especially since I started using Twitter I encounter loads of links that are interesting and useful to read, and that could really be helpful in future tasks. But how on earth to keep track of all that in a way that makes this information truly accessible at the moment I need it or have time to [full post]
Aug 242011
Improvisation theatre and facilitation & training jobs share a few common traits. I had no idea about this, until I had a chance to try out improvisation theatre a few months back. While the improv trainer was explaining the basics I found myself nodding at almost every turn. For instance, training & facilitation is also about “accepting” – taking what is being said to you as a given, and basing [full post]
Aug 162011
Even before social media there were so many tools to be used for training and facilitation that it was hard to get a grip. Nowadays, this seems even harder. Fortunately, there are people out there providing a helping hand. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 provides a useful list of practical tools that are actually used by the people voting for the list. One of the tools that made the [full post]
