Hot Seat Session on the Knowledge Hub

I’ve just completed my first ‘Hot Seat’ session for the IDeA Communities of Practice. My specialist subject “The Knowledge Hub” - a leading-edge project planned for the local government sector this year.

I think I managed to answer all of the questions correctly :-) and was encouraged to see that we had over 470 page views during the 2-hour session. I was  also impressed by the interest in this project from such a wide variety of users. Some challenging questions as well – all available at the Facilitation Now! conference 26th Feb.

Thanks to the KM team for arranging this session.

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Hot Seat Session on the Knowledge Hub

I’ve just completed my first ‘Hot Seat’ session for the IDeA Communities of Practice. My specialist subject “The Knowledge Hub” - a leading-edge project planned for the local government sector this year.

I think I managed to answer all of the questions correctly :-) and was encouraged to see that we had over 470 page views during the 2-hour session. I was  also impressed by the interest in this project from such a wide variety of users. Some challenging questions as well – all available at the Facilitation Now! conference 26th Feb.

Thanks to the KM team for arranging this session.

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Facilitation Now! Online facilitation conference Day 3

Day 3 of the online facilitation conference being run by IDeA, http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk/c/10030/blog/blog-display.do?backlink=ref&id=3394207 and I'm on this afternoon 2pm - 4pm doing a 'Hot Seat' on "The Knowledge Hub", the next generaton community and collaboration platform that I'm working on.

I was looking back at the online conversations from the previous 2 days and was really impressed by the high levels of activity, and some great insights from the facilitation 'experts' on how they've developed successful CoPs. I particularly liked the quote from Martin Stein (Workforce Matters CoP) in that facilitation is a bit like parenting and that "CoPs have a life cycle which starts with intensive care but ends with autonomy".

My only worry for the Hot Seat session is that I'm here by myself and not sure if I'll be able to keep up with the questions. But then again I might not get any....I'll wait with some trepidation!

 

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