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Hello

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Community and network design and facilitation; event design and facilitation

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My blog as a tag cloud

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Right let’s go…

• Background and career ‘path’• Inspiration: people and books• Examples of work in industry• Changes in last two years• Next two years

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Background and career ‘path’

• 1991 ish: BA (hons): Development Studies, UEA

• 1993 ish – 1997: Media general: events, promotion, production, film runner, market research, towel folder, backpacker

• 1997 - 2002: GaiaLive.co.uk to grown up web production at UpMyStreet.com

• 2002 ish: MSc IT: Knowledge: UWE• 2003 ish: Full community focus

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Inspiration: people

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Inspiration: books

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Example

Title: Ruralnet.org.uk

Description:

Wordpress MU

Distributed community Free sites for allAggregation at its coreInclusive design process

Organisation type:

Rural charity

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Example

Title: 2gether08.com

Description:

Crowdvine, Wordpress, Twitter, Aggregation, vimeo etc.

Pre-and-during event networking, collaboration and knowledge sharing to improve event

Organisation type:

Event organiser and meta community for social innovation

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Example

Title: whereilive.org

Description:

Drupalwww2 tools aggregation

Storytelling website for local neighbourhood for local civic engagement

Organisation type:

Local Council and others

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Example

Title: www.bristolwireless.net

Description:

Phpwiki (open)

Inclusive design processNo loginInformation and discussion around helping local citizens online for free

Organisation type:

Local community co-operative

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Example

Title: communities.cilip.org

Description:

Community Server (nearly out of the box)

Membership spacePublic and private areasPeer to peer supportOrganisational engagement

Organisation type:

Membership Association

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Example

Title: whowantstobe.co.uk

Description:

Wordpress

Exploring new forms of civic participation for social change

Organisation type:

Facilitators

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Example

Title: Icanhazcheezburger.com

Description:

Having fun and sharing silly jokes

Common languageRegular patternsVotingCreativity

Organisation type:

Web denizens

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Changes in last two years

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Next two years

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Next two years

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Thank you

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