At the service of Leadership

Here at the Country Heights in Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia directing the CIVProgramme to develop future leaders for the country’s private and public sectors.
Day One took off slowly but surely along the direction of the programme design with Prof. Emeritus Azman Awang declaring the workshop open and welcoming the participants.
As I watched the participants come and [...]

Heart2Heart Joining Instructions

JOINING INSTRUCTIONS FOR HEART2HEART ONLINE
Saturday, November 8, 2008  00:00 UTC Time
Overview: Heart2Heart Online is a structured communication process in which certain rules are adhered to in order to create the safety for a deep level of communication to occur without the fear of condemnation, unsolicited advice, interruption, or being rushed.
Objective: The objective of [...]

heart2heart online

Being able to connect to the world through Web 2 tools and spend long hours in the computer exchanging intellectual material with anyone available is cool. On the other hand, at the end of the day we need to face ourselves again and reconcile with who we really are. The power we exercise in being [...]

from footprints to heartprints

When the Internet was in its early stages there was a big concern about leaving footprints in the network which other people might capture, use and misuse. Today, with the proliferation of the Web 2 technologies people are not only leaving footprints but heartprints. This is something I particularly noticed in FOC08 where many of [...]

two worlds in one – part 2

After writing my last post Two Worlds in One, I chanced upon this video clip, where Charles Leadbeater talks about “Open” and “Closed” systems.

The open system is not organized (much like an FOC course where no one is designated as Official Facilitator), while the closed system is highly systematized and structured. While Leadbeater was [...]

two worlds in one?

Much like my earlier insights re to facilitate or to teach, I am now realizing that there might be a whole continuum of people we are getting involved with in today’s world. On one extreme are the hard-core Face-to-Face Audience, while on the other are the hard-core Virtual Audience. Some characteristics I see in them [...]

On Facilitating (Threaded Discussion) Participation in On-line Communities

If one were to take the Internet as one on-line community, then the term Facilitating is a contradiction in terms – who is the Facilitator of the internet? John’s first couple of lines said it all “Individuals with common interests, anywhere in the world, being able to communicate and collaborate with others to develop their [...]

on participation

Based on my experience of interacting with various communities on-line I am now inclined to believe that on-line participation is a function of on-line relationships, can be captured in the following formula:

The meaning of Media Richness can be found in the following table:

This means that with High Media Richness, even lower frequency of contact can [...]

additional insights re on-line communities

Earlier, I used a face-to-face model to understand the workings of an on-line community. Over the weeks that I have participated in the FOC course, I have come to use a new model as a handle of what might be going on in an on-line community. The model is as follows:

I now see four types [...]

3d facilitation and on-line communities of learning

In the third edition of “Did You Know” a certain Allan November was supposed to have identified 3 essential skills we need (children) to learn:

… deal with massive amounts of information;
… global communication skills;
… to be self-directed and understand how to organize more and more of their own learning.

I [...]