Lessons learned in the facilitation of the Outcome Mapping Learning Community.
Community orientations slide borrowed with permission from Nancy White: http://www.slideshare.net/choconancy/digital-habitats-community-orientation-spidergram-activity
12. 8. A little theory goes a long way Domain is the area of shared interest and knowledge the community focuses on. Practice is putting the knowledge to work, as manifest in the community’s tools, stories and interactions. Community is the manifestation of individual and collective identity of the members.
Why are members joining? What value do they seek, what do they offer? 1:9:90 rule. Legitimate peripheral participation
Active members plus stewards Role of stewards
Participation - discussing, practicing, learning, researching or experimenting: engaging in social processes Reification - writing a manual, defining a terminology, creating a database or summarising experiences: producing artefacts Too much part = less codification and recording Too much reif = less opportunity for making sense, interpreting knowledge and learning
Can’t tell the health of a community by forum discussions. Members could be more sensitive to other forms of learning. Many other things going on, sometimes outside of the facilitators radar. 9 orientations
This is the art of the facilitators role. Neil Packenham-Walsh Hit and miss – not concrete rules Persistence Prodding – seeding discussions Different methods
Set the right pace Regular events Facilitation plan to link activities