Week of July 19, 2019

• LAUREL PAPWORTH- SOCIAL NETWORK STRATEGY | THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019
  	Advanced Social Media Training in Sydney August 2019 My 3 Day advanced social media intensive course is back! At the end of August, grab your laptop and head into Sydney CBD for a deep dive into the more advanced elements of social media marketing and strategy. Not for the complete beginner, suitable for Agencies and Government and Corporate]. MORE >>

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• SOCIAL REPORTER | THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019

  Networked City in practice: maps, apps, games and a model for Commons The ideas that a group of us have developed around Connecting Londoners and Networked City are bearing fruit, with a two-year Big Lottery-funded programme, models for creating local Commons, plus more games and an app designed to help community connectors. Below is an update that I’ve posted to the Networked City wiki. MORE >>

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Week of July 12, 2019

• HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD | SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2019
  	Conversations That Matter: What It Takes to Have Them photo by Maren Yumi on flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. I ronically, despite the fact that I engage in fewer conversations than I used to (maybe because since I’m retired I don’t have to, and because I find few conversations valuable anyway), I’ve started writing more about conversation on this blog. MORE >>

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Week of July 5, 2019

• JENNY CONNECTED | SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2019
  	Everything Flows In early June I travelled to the Cotswolds for a 4-day course organised by Field and Field , and featuring the work of Iain McGilchrist. Iain was the keynote speaker on each of the 4 days giving 14 one hour talks/interviews over this time. Some of these talks related to his book The Master and His Emissary. MORE >>

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June, 2019

• JENNY CONNECTED | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2019
  	Coming to Your Senses with Iain McGilchrist I have just returned (exhausted, but exhilarated) from a four day course in the Cotswolds – Exploring the Divided Brain. Coming to Your Senses. The course focuses on the work of Iain McGilchrist, principally his book The Master and His Emissary. The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. MORE >>

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• MAKING COMMUNITYSENSE | TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019
  	Community(Es)Sense MORE >>

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• MICHELLE LAURIE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2019
  	Last call for Rosviz19! We are in the home stretch for registration! One month until the annual graphic facilitation workshop ‘Rosviz19’ begins. There are 3 spots left. This is why you should register: You want to increase engagement in meetings and with teams, you want to add skills to your toolkit BUT you think…I can’t draw. MORE >>

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• PORTALS AND KM | SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 2019
  	Painting of Three Flutists at Mardi Gras New Orleans Here is a 16" x 20" acrylic painting of three flutists playing in a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.    The best way to easily see most of my paintings for s ale is to go to my Facebook page -  [link]  - and look at Photos and albums within Photos. I have three photo albums covering my art. MORE >>

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• MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2019

  Re-Thinking Return on Investment for Office 365 How much do you pay every month for your employees’ Office 365 subscription? Research shows that the payments made by Microsoft customers for Office 365 are not being met with parallel value gains in return. Migrating to Office 365 is not enough to pay back your investment. MORE >>

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• MATHEMAGENIC | THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019
  	One dinner learning: science, reading and snails After a few hot days yesterday’s dinner was inside. Rain was coming, together with lightning and thunder. Alexander and I had to run upstairs – we needed to see how the next iteration of our self-watering system on the balcony and roof works. MORE >>

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• JENNY CONNECTED | FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2019
  	The Value and Limits of Intuition “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.”?—?Albert Albert Einstein. This is the fourth post I am writing to share the notes I made on a 4-day Field & Field course that I recently attended in the Cotswolds, UK. MORE >>

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• MAKING COMMUNITYSENSE | SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2019
  	CommunitySense website makeover I did a major overhaul of the CommunitySense website. Check out [link] to see how I may help your organization, network or community build collaborative common ground. CommunitySense UncategorizedMORE >>

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• FULL CIRCLE ASSOCIATES | THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2019
  	Liberating Structures in Network Development When working in a network comprised of technical folks, it is easy stay in the familiar territory of presenting knowledge when the network gathers. Sometimes make assumptions about scientists, or policy makers, or engineers about how they prefer to interact at a face to face meeting. Watch that “fluffy” stuff! MORE >>

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• HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD | FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019
  	Being Adaptable: A Reminder List image from PXHERE , CC0. I t’s been about four years since I produced an updated version of my rather complicated Community-Based Resilience Framework. MORE >>

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• Learning to See More MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2019

• Customer Communities Are Critical For Business Transformation ONLINE COMMUNITY STRATEGY | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2019

• The Value and Limits of Imagination JENNY CONNECTED | TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2019

• New publication: Common Agenda Setting through Participatory Collaboration Mapping – a Knowledge Base-Driven Approach MAKING COMMUNITYSENSE | FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2019

• Liberating Structures Immersion in ATL September 18-19 FULL CIRCLE ASSOCIATES | MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2019

• Links of the Quarter: June 2019 HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD | TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019

• Remembering the Fundamentals in Presenting MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2019

• Aligning Your Enterprise Community Strategy With Your Customer’s Career Journey ONLINE COMMUNITY STRATEGY | SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2019

• The Value and Limits of science JENNY CONNECTED | THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2019

• The Value and Limits of Reason JENNY CONNECTED | TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2019

• Everything Flows JENNY CONNECTED | SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2019

• ROI and Office 365 at the SharePoint and Office 365 User Group in Christchurch MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2019

• Things I Do While Waiting, Hopelessly, for the Dawn HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD | SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2019

• Did Early Humans Have Selves? HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD | SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2019

• Aligning Your Enterprise Community Strategy With Your Customer’s Career Journey ONLINE COMMUNITY STRATEGY | SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2019

Week of June 28, 2019

• JENNY CONNECTED | TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2019
  	The Value and Limits of Imagination On a 4-day Field & Field course I recently attended on The Divided Brain. Coming to Your Senses, Iain McGilchrist told us that there are four paths to knowledge: science, reason, intuition and imagination. He gave a one-hour talk on each of these topics. In these posts I am sharing the notes I made whilst listening to the talks. MORE >>

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• MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2019

  Re-Thinking Return on Investment for Office 365 How much do you pay every month for your employees’ Office 365 subscription? Research shows that the payments made by Microsoft customers for Office 365 are not being met with parallel value gains in return. Migrating to Office 365 is not enough to pay back your investment. MORE >>

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• HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD | FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019
  	Being Adaptable: A Reminder List image from PXHERE , CC0. I t’s been about four years since I produced an updated version of my rather complicated Community-Based Resilience Framework. MORE >>

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• ONLINE COMMUNITY STRATEGY | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2019
  	Customer Communities Are Critical For Business Transformation The last few years have seen big brands make extraordinary investments in developing massive “digital transformation” and social media programs. On one hand, these programs have yielded moments of customer connection, advocacy and insight. MORE >>

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• HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD | SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2019
  	Did Early Humans Have Selves? image by Neil Howard on flickr CC-BY-NC2.0. O ntology is “a gathering of or speaking ( -logy ) about ‘what is, what exists’ ( onto- )” The suffix -logy has come to mean a study or science, but originally it just referred to something said (the word monologue has the same root). So an ontology is a statement about what is. MORE >>

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Week of June 21, 2019

• JENNY CONNECTED | FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2019
  	The Value and Limits of Intuition “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.”?—?Albert Albert Einstein. This is the fourth post I am writing to share the notes I made on a 4-day Field & Field course that I recently attended in the Cotswolds, UK. MORE >>

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• MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2019

  Learning to See More How do you learn to see what you can’t? Or to put it another way, how can you increase your ability to pay attention to and describe what presents itself before your eyes? It’s all there for the seeing, but if you lack the eyes to see, it might as well not be. My wife often asks, “What do you think of the new flowers in the garden?” MORE >>

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• MATHEMAGENIC | THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019
  	One dinner learning: science, reading and snails After a few hot days yesterday’s dinner was inside. Rain was coming, together with lightning and thunder. Alexander and I had to run upstairs – we needed to see how the next iteration of our self-watering system on the balcony and roof works. MORE >>

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• ONLINE COMMUNITY STRATEGY | SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2019

  Aligning Your Enterprise Community Strategy With Your Customer’s Career Journey Use these three contexts to help create a bigger and better future for your company's community. The post Aligning Your Enterprise Community Strategy With Your Customer’s Career Journey appeared first on. Community Management Culture Digital Transformation Online Community Social Business social media social networks community crowd StrategyMORE >>

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• JENNY CONNECTED | TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2019
  	The Value and Limits of Reason In this post I will share the notes I made when hearing Iain McGilchrist speak about the value and limits of reason on 4-day Field & Field course I recently attended in the Cotswolds, UK. MORE >>

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• ONLINE COMMUNITY STRATEGY | SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2019

  Aligning Your Enterprise Community Strategy With Your Customer’s Career Journey Use these three contexts to help create a bigger and better future for your company's community. The post Aligning Your Enterprise Community Strategy With Your Customer’s Career Journey appeared first on. Community Management Culture Digital Transformation Online Community Social Business social media social networks community crowd StrategyMORE >>

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Week of June 14, 2019

• JENNY CONNECTED | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2019
  	Coming to Your Senses with Iain McGilchrist I have just returned (exhausted, but exhilarated) from a four day course in the Cotswolds – Exploring the Divided Brain. Coming to Your Senses. The course focuses on the work of Iain McGilchrist, principally his book The Master and His Emissary. The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. MORE >>

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• MAKING COMMUNITYSENSE | TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019
  	Community(Es)Sense MORE >>

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• MICHELLE LAURIE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2019
  	Last call for Rosviz19! We are in the home stretch for registration! One month until the annual graphic facilitation workshop ‘Rosviz19’ begins. There are 3 spots left. This is why you should register: You want to increase engagement in meetings and with teams, you want to add skills to your toolkit BUT you think…I can’t draw. MORE >>

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• MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2019

  Remembering the Fundamentals in Presenting The security presentation by Michael Sampson was very basic, he went on for about 20 minutes about various different types of Phising emails, the level of the audience really didn’t need that level of information. MORE >>

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• JENNY CONNECTED | THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2019
  	The Value and Limits of science A bit of background. On the recent Field and Field four-day cours e (June 8 th – 11 th 2019), Iain McGilchrist discussed key ideas from his book The Master and His Emissary. The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World , talking for an hour on each. For the most part these talks were familiar as I have attended this course before. MORE >>

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• MAKING COMMUNITYSENSE | FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2019

  New publication: Common Agenda Setting through Participatory Collaboration Mapping – a Knowledge Base-Driven Approach de Moor (2018). Common Agenda Setting through Participatory Collaboration Mapping: a Knowledge Base-Driven Approach. In 16th Prato CIRN Conference 24-28 October 2018, Monash Centre, Prato, Italy. Abstract: Globalizing society faces an ever-expanding web of wicked problems. MORE >>

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• FULL CIRCLE ASSOCIATES | MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2019

  Liberating Structures Immersion in ATL September 18-19 Tired of unproductive meetings, stifling hierarchy, exclusion, mistrust and disengaged people? It’s time to jump into Liberating Structures for your life and work. To instigate more of this fun, I’m heading South! Nadine Doyle and Robin Muretisch and I (and who knows, maybe some special practitioner guests if they can be convinced!) MORE >>

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• MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2019

  ROI and Office 365 at the SharePoint and Office 365 User Group in Christchurch I headed into the city early yesterday morning to present on ROI and Office 365. It’s almost an hour from my place to where the session was being held, and not wanting to get caught in the morning rush hour traffic, I left while it was still dark. I stopped at the mall to pick up a couple of items that I needed for my talk (e.g., MORE >>

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• HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD | TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019
  	Links of the Quarter: June 2019 image of the Maldives by David Mark from Pixabay , CC0; the islands will likely be completely submerged due to sea level rise from glacial melt by mid-century. I’ve recently updated the (highly subjective) list of my ‘best’ 94 posts. MORE >>

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• HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD | SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2019
  	Things I Do While Waiting, Hopelessly, for the Dawn photo by Vahap Ki?lu?ken ken from pxhere, cc0. T he expression the dark night of the soul seems to resonate with a lot of people. MORE >>

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Week of June 7, 2019

• PORTALS AND KM | SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 2019
  	Painting of Three Flutists at Mardi Gras New Orleans Here is a 16" x 20" acrylic painting of three flutists playing in a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.    The best way to easily see most of my paintings for s ale is to go to my Facebook page -  [link]  - and look at Photos and albums within Photos. I have three photo albums covering my art. MORE >>

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• MAKING COMMUNITYSENSE | SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2019
  	CommunitySense website makeover I did a major overhaul of the CommunitySense website. Check out [link] to see how I may help your organization, network or community build collaborative common ground. CommunitySense UncategorizedMORE >>

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• FULL CIRCLE ASSOCIATES | THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2019
  	Liberating Structures in Network Development When working in a network comprised of technical folks, it is easy stay in the familiar territory of presenting knowledge when the network gathers. Sometimes make assumptions about scientists, or policy makers, or engineers about how they prefer to interact at a face to face meeting. Watch that “fluffy” stuff! MORE >>

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Week of May 31, 2019

• JOITSKE HULSEBOSCH | FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019

  Organizations: keep an eye on your high speed learners A participant during my master class on learning of the future shares: " I was learning a lot through the online world and would be at the cutting-edge in my field, this learning was logical part of my work as recruiter. Now I have a new job and it is not a logical part of my function. I don't have the time anymore to be active online. MORE >>

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• PORTALS AND KM | TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019
  	Painting of Mardi Gras Selfie - New Orleans Here is a 16" x 20" acrylic painting of myself and my wife as are getting ready to hit the streets for Mardi Gras day.    The best way to easily see most of my paintings for s ale is to go to my Facebook page -  [link]  - and look at Photos and albums within Photos. I have three photo albums covering my art. MORE >>

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• MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2019
  	DEX 2019 – It’s Coming The team at Step Two are about ready to take the wraps off the design for the Digital Employee Experience (DEX) conference , coming in September 2019 (and as of today, only 110 days away). The conference is held over three days (September 18-20) in Sydney, Australia, so if you are located out of region, get those long-haul tickets booked. MORE >>

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• HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD | SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2019
  	A Plague painting: A Swarm of Locusts by Emil Schmidt, in the public domain. A plague (in its generic meaning) is defined as “a destructively numerous influx or multiplication of a noxious animal; an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality”. MORE >>

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• MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019
  	Parking without a Parking Meter What’s the best way to levy and collect fees on parking spaces in congested urban areas? Ten years ago the common pattern in the areas I frequented was a parking meter at each parking space – which required coins of a variable amount depending on the forecasted demand for the parking space. A car park in the central city might be $4.60 MORE >>

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• MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | MONDAY, MAY 27, 2019

  Compounding Small Variations A tiny variation between two numbers compounded many times results in a huge variation between the two numbers when the compounding ends. The example that easily comes to mind is the difference between 0.99 to the power of 365 and 1.01 to the power of 365. The calculation results in the 0.99 being reduced to 0.03, while the 1.01 rockets to 37.78. MORE >>

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• MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | MONDAY, MAY 27, 2019

  Facebook’s Role in Brexit: Carole Cadwalladr at TED Carole Cadwalladr, a journalist in the UK, presented her research and conclusions on how Facebook contributed to Brexit during a talk at TED Vancouver in April 2019. Spoiler: negatively. From the TED talk transcript, here’s what Carole said: [3:42] And this entire referendum took place in darkness, because it took place on Facebook. MORE >>

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• HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD | SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2019
  	The Work That Seems Worth Doing Now painting “In Deep Conversation” by Irish artist Pam O’Connell. “It’s about negotiating the surrender of our whole way of living,” writes Dougald Hine. MORE >>

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Week of May 24, 2019

• LAUREL PAPWORTH- SOCIAL NETWORK STRATEGY | SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019
  	2019 July – 2 Day Facebook™ & Instagram™ Sydney Course July 2019, Sydney CBD Facebook & Instagram for Business course: (2 day Sydney course) Are you wanting to take your Facebook Business Page & Instagram content to the next level? MORE >>

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• MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2019

  Re-Thinking Facebook’s Value Academic researchers from the University of Pennsylvania concluded that use of Facebook and its ilk have negative effects on personal well-being (as measured by increased rates of depression and loneliness). MORE >>

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• HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD | TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2019
  	Where We Are Now: More on the Culture of Fear Image of ghost town in Japan, near Nagasaki, abandoned when the coal ran out, from pxhere , CC0. MORE >>

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• MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019

  ROI for Office 365 – Upcoming Talk on June 12 I will be presenting on ROI for Office 365 at the next meeting of the Christchurch Office 365 and SharePoint User Group. Date is Wednesday June 12; time is 8.30am to 10am. MORE >>

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• MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2019

  Facebook at Work? A study published in November 2018 concluded that Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram have negative effects on personal well-being, with increased rates of depression and loneliness the two big ones. MORE >>

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